Freud Museum

Freud Museum

Freud Museum

Freud Museum

Freud Museum

Freud Museum

One of London’s hidden pleasures. The study in Freud’s house in Maresfield Gardens, NW3, is kept close to the condition when Freud died (open afternoons, Wednesday to Sunday)

Trajan's Column

Trajan’s Column

Trajan's Column

Trajan’s Column

Trajan's Column

Trajan’s Column

Trajan's Column

Trajan’s Column

Trajan's Column

Trajan’s Column

Trajan's Column

Trajan’s Column

The plaster cast of Trajan’s Column in the V and A (in two parts to fit within the space). They were checking for roof leaks during a downpour and kindly let me have a look inside the upper section.

Naked Cyclists

Naked Cyclists

Naked Cyclists

Naked Cyclists

Naked Cyclists

Naked Cyclists

Where I used to live the naked cyclists’ annual ride used to cause quite a stir. On Sunday a naked peloton rode along the Brighton seafront (followed by an ice cream van called Mr Whippy) and looked completely at home and certainly not enough to distract the hoola hoopers. One of the pleasures of living in a seaside town is the disturbance of urban sobriety by those  in beach attire venturing into the town and the cyclists appeared as an extension of such behaviour.