Good Dog

Sights like this are fairly common around London,

so much so that it can be easy to forget what they represent. Built by the Metropolitan Drinking Fountain and Cattle Trough Association (established in the mid-nineteenth century), these present-day flower-beds are reminders of a time when safe water wasn't widely available to the public, so people (and their animals) sought out these welcome sources of free, clean water. On a less historic and more frivolous note, I like the way that the troughs look like giant dachshunds when viewed from the side, as above.