Silhouette

Sometimes the oddest things can become part of everyday life in London. Take, for example, this graveyard:

About a ten-minute bus ride from home, Bob and I have passed Bunhill Fields cemetery many times without getting off to investigate, but it was Bob who spotted quite a familiar name outside the cemetery, listed as one of the people buried there, so today we decided to have a look:

The cemetery itself is pretty low-key, right alongside a major street, and we almost didn't notice that we had been passing the burial place of William Blake several times a week. After wandering through the cemetery and a few surrounding streets, we headed home for an early dinner because we wanted to head out again around 7:00 P.M. for a concert--but we ended up leaving a little later and missing our bus, so we didn't get to the venue until 8:30 and missed the first two bands. The third band (the first for us) was Au Revoir Simone, an entertaining New York City keyboard trio.

The band we were there to see, Camera Obscura, played their melodic pop to the enthusiastic crowd

and like all London concerts, the show was over by 11ish

and we headed home on the bus. On our way to the bus stop, I noticed this window display for a courier company:

How great is that? It made me want to courier something . . .