POST APOCALYPSE LONDON YESTERDAY

A very long day but I have enough material for three DVDS about 3.5 hours of film, it came out full sun at tea time which in a city means too many shadows so packed up filming about 5.30 and had a mean on Waterloo Rd Old Fire Station and some pleasant  IPA. London was so empty of people and traffic, no morning or evening rush hour, no extra buses , nobody by Piccadilly Fountain, two people on Trafalgar Square. It was a similar picture as previously seen in the suburbs, plastic fencing and cones all along roads everywhere, extra cycle lanes which never get used, cycles use the pavement, people on kiddies scooters riding in middle of roads. The bus drivers were all very friendly, buses generally fair to little passengers but some full denoted by card in windscreen ( no digital displays although new single deckers are digital). I hate digital displays, hard to read, impossible in sunlight, rubbish for photography.

There were roads adorned with Thank You flags and Union Jacks, I guess this is ready for Scraggy Head when he has held the coup and becomes president for life. London has been decimated, why are people still allowed to skive off work at home, service to customers is at rock bottom as most places, too much touchy feely rubbish and anyway in the south of England nobody witnessed seems to use extended walkways, people hug and shake hands in greeting. There are no apparent tube or bus restrictions on seating, people have masks hanging around necks not worn, restaurants don't ask for name and address for tracking if required. Quit this madness, back to work for everyone and destroy all displays of plastic fencing and the like, normality attracts customers / consumers. With instances of Corona at low levels the actual incidence of deaths is below the seasonal average so more people die of Corona but not as many who would have died of something else.

I covered quite a lot of territory but at £13.50 a travel card for central London must be the most expensive in the world. The tube was deserted, no staff, no directions, blocked off lifts with n alternatives, really about normal then, what a shambles it all was, most impressed. Bless the staff at the restaurants who are working so hard, thank goodness they haven't got masks on in London. Here are some shots taken yesterday, more to come. Filming Stockport tomorrow then Stobarts Widnes Friday morning, sitting in sun Friday pm.