Reflecting on Cars in Canary Wharf

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Walking through Canary Wharf yesterday I came across a mini Motor Show going on - yes, complete with Minis.



Well, I suppose if you're going to try to sell Hummer H3s (Fifteen MPG! That's about 40p per mile in petrol alone - and you can easily double that with maintenance and depreciation) then the middle of the Fortress of Capitalism is the place to do it. Having said that, there were some very nice cars on display - I'll post pictures of the Morgans later. As I walked round admiring all the shiny chrome and polished paintwork though, I was reminded of some pictures taken by a friend of mine on my photography course this week - we'd been asked to photography buildings, and she'd done one reflected in a car window. Inspired, I looked around for interesting reflections...

That Mini for instance - from the right angle, the headlight surround nicely caught the adjacent tower blocks.



Its filler cap, meanwhile, let me capture the adjacent Mini Convertible.



A little further on, acres of beautifully-buffed bonnet provided nice canvases for the surrounding skyscrapers.





More pictures later.

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The marquis and I -- and anef and Michael-- were crossing the road across from the Southbank centre at around 1.30 pm yesterday and an air display flew over -- two squadrons of fighters in formation plus several larger planes all with fighter escorts, in formation -- any idea what this was, please? It was very impressive to watch.

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Ah, that will have been the Queen's Birthday Flypast - see pictures here.