Wednesday 17 June 2009

Reasons to be cheerful I

After the last, rather depressing post, something more cheerful.

In the course of one lucky day last week two young boys (about 8 years old) separately and spontaneously held gates open for me whilst I was wrestling with my bike.

And then I came across this:


Amazing. Alongside the adverts for suspiciously cheap rooms and busty caribbean ladies in the window of a newsagents on the Holloway Road. I wonder if he has had any interest...

2 comments:

Andrew Blackman said...

Wow. Beautiful post, thank you for brightening up my day! I love that after living with that constant daily pressure himself, he wants not to escape from it but to help take the pressure off someone else. A very noble offer, and I'm sure he'll be able to make a big difference to somebody's life.

David said...

Really lovely blog. Several posts that feel totally London in spirit and perspective whilst still being your eyes.