I swallowed a fly while cycling past The Eagle on City Road, the very pub name-checked in the nursery rhyme ‘Pop Goes The Weasel’. I don’t know why.
Lenny saw a dog across the park and shouted ‘dog’ so loud the owners jumped, despite being some distance away.
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I learned that New Zealand House on Haymarket is built on the site of the former Carlton Hotel, where a young Ho Chi Minh worked as a dishwasher.
I went to a meeting in the Westminster Hub, a mostly white futurist deconstructed open plan hot desk office and coffee drinking space for start up social entrepreneur media types. Average age… 28?
I was passed by a police man in a police van texting as he sped down Hackney Road
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After the Christchurch earthquake of February 2011, much of the residential land along the Avon River was declared unfit to rebuild on. Homes in this ‘red zone’ were abandoned immediately, with families forced to relocate.
The houses have since been left untouched: boarded up and slowly deteriorating while encroaching plant life thrives. The effect is both bucolic and post-apocalyptic.
I took these photos in April 2013 around the Avon Loop, a bend in the river where the land subsided dramatically as a result of the quakes. Under current proposals these houses will eventually be demolished to make way for a riverside park.
