purple haze

now then

regrettably no, this post (or what have you) has nothing to do with the most splendid song off of Jimi Hendrix with that name. it just seemed like a reasonably good title for this one. especially based on the first image, look you see. 

yes, for my sins, or if you prefer at the request of verk, i have once again been in the City of London. note, readers from other lands (and some here), 'City of London' is a very different thing from the city of London you may think. this one is the big finance and what have you area. mostly what i can tell you about it is that it's rather difficult to find parking there (or avoid fines for driving) and they have their own police force. so don't go messing around. 

for those of you familiar with the London skyline and going "isn't that the building they have christened or decided to call The Gherkin", yes it is. quite a challenge when the lift ("elevator") in it is busted, let me tell you. 

do we have a video of this area? yes, we do indeed. well, i took it, but it is now ours, for it roams freely on this peculiar "internet" thing. and certainly it is most decidedly done in VHS mode. 

going back (ever so slightly) to an earlier point, thus far i am not sure if i have been fined for the simple task of driving down a road. my suspicion is that i have, but if you think the wheels of justice are slow, well, Royal Mail and the Post Office go one slower. certain roads i drove down appeared to be just pretty much conventional roads, but in that there London (innit), if they can think of a reason to restrict or block the use of a road, they will. and fine you for not respecting their reason, no matter how senseless or pointless. 

oh. yes, all of the pictures (well, both of the two) are in thermal "style" mode, which i am more keen on than the psychedelic style. a big selling point would be the picture below. the sky looks to be an even more amazing purple, if that is such a thing, but that's not my point of attraction. 

not sure it was deliberate, more of a happy accident, but all those buildings at the lower centre have a quality of them being sketched rather than being an image captured off of a phone what has a camera welded to it. looking again, yes, i suppose the gherkin looks a bit sketched rather than snapped too. perhaps all of them do. 

well, no, i don't have much else to offer on this subject. there's nothing much to take. but, yes, it is quite likely to the point of predictable that more thermal image stuff will come soon. maybe some psychedelic ones, or maybe not. depends if i can work out a way to take them so which sees them come out in a way i would consider to be quite class. 

be excellent to each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!