Secret London Lunch Breaks

Well thanks to Deborah for 2 weeks of awesome blog posting!  The only issue is - now the pressure is on! My humble posts from small beginnings may not live up to the competition! Well I shall do my best!  Apologies to our viewers - if in fact we do have any - but we skipped a week with our Secret London Lunch Breaks due to my annoying flu-like symptoms!  Sorry!  But no fear, I am here to report last week's jaunt, and will carry on as usual next week.  We were blessed with another bright sunny day, isn't March turning out to be sun-tastic?  A perfect day for our trip to Tower Hill.  So we jumped on the Circle Line, which was late. As usual. But we arrived in pretty good time, only 3 stops from Moorgate.  So, first port of call, a HUGE bronze sundial directly outside Tower Hill tube station (commissioned by London Transport), encircled by a bronze band illustrating 2000 years of the history of London from AD 43 when London was founded right up to 1982 when the Thames Bar

It was a cold, foggy London morning on the journey into work.  Perfect for atmospheric shots at this week's destination.  Except, it brightened up into a gloriously sunny day by lunchtime.  No matter.  Intrepid lunchtime explorers that we are, we were venturing further afield today, so decided to treat ourselves to a black cab.  We instructed our driver to take us to St Pancras Old Church.  "Is that where the morgue is?" he double-checked.  Morgue?!  "Yes, that's the one!" we told him chirpily and hopped in the back questioning where we may end up but thrilled to be on another lunchtime adventure.  We were pleased to see our trusty driver following our A to B Google map to the letter.  No round the houses-get a couple of extra quid out of of 'em-scenic route messing about. So we arrived at the church, climbed the steps, admired the big iron gates, with their scrolls and gilt highlights for a moment, and the shadows they cast upon the path.