Metro

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It's clean, efficient, well-used, safe, good value for money and fast: London could learn a lot from Washington's Metro system. It misses out key neighbourhoods, but that's about the only complaint. Eating and drinking is not allowed to help keep it clean. For the most part people obey that rule, though I saw a few tourists slurping coffee.

Bethesda

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From my hotel window: Bethesda, the suburb that thinks it's a city.

Smithsonian

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The National Museum of National History on the Mall.

Capital of the free world

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The view down Pennsylvania Avenue towards the Capitol building.

Runway

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Manchester airport in the sunshine. Yes, that's Manchester and sunshine in the same sentence.

Directions

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...or may be over there...

New shoes...

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Hopefully these won't leak. I hate wet feet.

End of the earth

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[From the archive]

Doesn't get much more remote than this. On the steppe in Mongolia: camel, goats and ger (the traditional Mongolian house). October 2001.

Stop moving about...

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[From the archives] An attempt to capture action at the Tate Modern Gallery.

Letter from Parliament

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Dear [fill in the blank].

Thank you for your letter of [date] about [fill in the blank]. I can't be arsed to have an opinion, so I've sent it on to [the relevant Government Minister] who will have one of [his/her] civil servants draft a non-reply.

Yours, Tessa Jowell MP.

Lunch

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Mmmmm! Pret a Manger.

Working from home today

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The phone is my office.

Looks like rain, deer

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You can just about see the deluge that hit me as I left the office.

Red sky in the morning...

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...sailor take warning.

Caught in the web

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This morning's dew bringing out the best in this spider's web.

Brushing every day

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Fights cavities and stops me from losing any more teeth.

Live from Champion Hill

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Action from today's match between Dulwich Hamlet and Barking & East Ham. More photos here.

On the train home.

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Passengers reflected in the train window.

Statutory posting

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Some fat bloke, who's eyes are so bad that he can't focus anymore, struggling to think of a good photo for his fotoblog.

Art or social commentary?

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The park I walk through on the way to work is popular with street people - those that sleep rough. But, that still doesn't explain the bed sitting in the bandstand area. Later on the bed, still sitting there unannounced and unexplained, got very wet in the autumn rain.

Aeroport de Bruxelles

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Always worth a stop in the Brussels Airport business lounge on the way back home.

Brussels

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Through the peephole in m hotel room.

Tomatoes

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These little fellers will go in my chutney.

A visit to my parents

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Young Ali and his Grandma.

Off to the landfill

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I know. It's a total waste; all that packaging.

Historic London

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Working in an "historic" part of London, we get a whole load of London walks down my street. Ghost tours, Adam architecture freaks, crime nuts, people trying to find the River Fleet.

Lou Rawls

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When you suffer as much as I do, you really appreciate soft toilet paper.

Balham, gateway to the south

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A rather blurry, but atmospheric picture taken at the bus stop next to Balham station waiting for the No. 316 home.

Back to work

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Darkness descends in Central London. Autumn is upon us. No sight of the solar eclipse either.

Dig!

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Digging the garden today, I managed to snap the handle of my 10 year guaranteed Spear & Jackson fork.

Last Saturday: I was here...

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Standing on the ramparts of Monteriggione, a fortified hilltop village in Tuscany, Italy.