Life under the Crunch

A few people have been sending emails from home mentioning the credit crunch and wondering if we still have jobs. It's been quite a surreal couple of months. Suddenly, drops in share prices of 9% are commonplace, almost every other week some large financial institution announces cuts of up to 10% of its workforce and headlines like the ones below appear almost daily - even on the good old "theLondon paper" (a free daily paper which usually focuses on Amy Winehouse photos):

Despite all this we are both still working and at the moment the stories on the news haven't made their way home to roost for either of us. Fingers crossed.

The weather is steadily getting colder and winter is definitely on its way. Shaun and I decided to venture out into St James Park and enjoy some late autumn sunshine along with half of London on a Sunday afternoon earlier this month - with the leaves turning yellow overhead. Even a couple of weeks later it seems that most of London's leaves can now be found on the ground.

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An Alternative National Gallery

Sometimes it just takes a bit of direction from a dead Chinese fellow.

On the alley ways and streets in the East End around Brick Lane and Old Street some of those ideas have ended up on street walls (along with a few old fart jokes ...).

Of course even on the streets some work is more highly prized than others. This work by the famed "Banksy" has been covered in glass to protect it (maybe from the Tesco PR machine) ...

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