Regents Canal, Camden, 20th July 2011

A rare gift and a rarer grey, although the canals are proving productive recently. Although this is less than a mile from my flat, and was taken by one I see as much as realistically possible, I wasn't there to take it myself. I'm delighted by the consideration, as ever.

Kentish Town Road, 18th July 2011

It never rains but it pours, as they say, and it was pouring this day. The recent glut makes the old adage work metaphorically and literally: three in four days after a long drought, although London is in anything other than a drought at the moment.

Regents Canal, from Kentish Town Road, 17th July 2011

I didn't even notice this small deflated example at first, I was admiring the streaks of algae in the canal by the lock. So it was a bonus one really, and yet another example of a canal-bound blue. What is it about the canals that attracts blue balloons..?

Off Gaisford Street, 15th July 2011

Summer's usually a good time for balloons, but it had been almost a month balloonless before I saw this, just metres from my flat on the way to work. The building in whose forecourt it lies is oddly incongruous on this street, looking more like a dilapidated French apartment block than a delapidated North London townhouse like the rest. Perhaps a bomb landed there during the war? It would be easier to find that out than the origin of this balloon, but at the time of writing I know neither.