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continues from part IV

Scotland, Squirrels, Harry Potter, Charlize Theron, Sunsets at five minutes before midnight, and a Mercedes McLaren 722/SLR. If I said The Hoff features as well, would you even believe me? It all happened….

June 16th. “When Dreaming Ends”. Was my rather morose mood due to Austria losing 1-0 to Germany; five vodka and Pepsis consumed about the same time; some kind of relationship realisation; or just another day in futile pursuit of Virgin’s nebulous IT Department? Hard to say..

June 17th. St Pauls Church in Convent Garden. Later that day, actresses Keira Knightley and Sienna Miller were besieged by the Paparazzi near our building at work. But I missed that. Because I’m diligent at work. (Mostly)

Subject: Actress and Academy Award Winner Charlize Theron.
Location: Leicester Square, London
Camera: Pentax K10D
Pretty Happy he didn’t go to Ikea instead that evening: Me!

June 19th, London outside Baker Street station. I’m guessing this is some kind of joke/art installation? That CCTV has additional CCTVs in a holster!

June 20th. 35 days after starting at Virgin, I FINALLY have SAS installed on my laptop. In the feedback form (!) I was asked to fill out on the IT Department (!), I stopped short of saying “in all likelihood they are actively attempting to undermine the ordinary course of business of the company”.

June 21st. A bee’s eye view of the strawberry field where we went fruit picking today. Time passed. Fruit was picked, and fruit was eaten. And afterwards… we had WAFFLES!

June 22nd. The British Museum. Filled with artifacts stolen… uh… donated… umm… “liberated” from various civilisations around the world. Also, it’s an ideal place to discuss among friends the point at which ‘grave-robbing’ becomes ‘archaeology’. (Just kidding. I love the place. Free admission, too!)

June 23rd. Statue of fictional detective Sherlock Holmes outside the appropriately-named Baker Street station. I was there as part of my “I’m-a-geek-and-I’m-still-single” tour of every Caffe Nero in London (there’s something like sixty).

June 24th. Here’s Platform nine-and-three-quarters at Kings Cross Station, a reference to the Harry Potter series. If you haven’t heard of Harry Potter, maybe you’re one of those people from a lost tribe of the Amazon. If so : welcome, and hopefully you’re enjoying the internet. The porn is somewhere over there>>

June 25th. Again I had no luck seeing a Bugatti Veyron at the Bentley Dealership in Mayfair that distributes them. However, I did manage to see this truly stunning Mercedes McLaren SLR 722 near Harrods. (To use an analogy, that’s like Jessica Biel bailing on dinner, then having Giselle Bundchen call you moments later asking if you’d like to go out. Sort of.)

26th June. Action shot on Baker Street. I hear so many police sirens daily I suspect that either there’s an invisible all-out apocalyptic crime war going on in London, or it’s a subtle means of control by keeping everyone in a state of constant fear. Yay, Police!

27th June. I had no idea who Agyness Deyn was prior to today when she was interviewed by BBC1, and I’m still kind of hazy right now, too. The only thing I was impressed by is that I managed to shoot between the beret of the Paparazzi to my left and the ponytail of the Paparazzi to my right. Stupid Paparazzi.

28th June. It was a close call between this photo and a taxi service advertisement in Watford, showing a guy being hugged by two girls with the caption “you’ve pulled, now grab your coat” (and call a cab). Oddly, and just for once, propriety prevailed.

29th June. Greenwich has the Royal Observatory, the International Dateline, buildings designed by Christopher Wren, the Cutty Sark and the jacket that Admiral Lord Nelson wore on the day he died at the battle of Trafalgar. Oh, and Greenwich also has squirrels.

30th June. St Albans Railway Station at late sunset (about 23:15). In order to achieve their stated 93% ‘on-time’ train punctuality average, First Capital Connect would need to be scheduling dozens and dozens of trains around midnight when nobody needs them. But I saw none.

1st July. Church in the Temple area. I was there because overhead cable problems had caused monstrous delays on the train line heading north. The temperature that caused it was… uh… 27 degrees celsius. I’m sceptical.

2nd July. Today I was in Hook (the photo is closer to Waterloo Station, however. I’ll wait while you get that Abba song out of your head).

3rd July. David ‘The Hoff’ Hasselhoff walking out of the BBC1 studios, London. Yes, I saw and photographed The Hoff. Yes, you may touch me. Short of Mercury crashing into the Sun, pretty much nothing was going to trump this as photo for the day.

4th July. The weekend means it’s time to go somewhere. In this case, Scotland. This is about as late as ‘photos of the day’ get – taken about five minutes before midnight at Loch Linnhe, about two hours north of Glasgow.

5th July. Scotland Day 2. This is apparently the most photographed castle in Scotland – Eilean Donan near Kyle Lochalsch. I did my bit in that regard – about two dozen. Okay, maybe three.

That was a pretty cool past 20 days. Hopefully, the next 20 days can manage to get close!