Taking the dog for a walk in London this weekend I was amused to see the sign above.

National Grid are currently replacing some 350 miles of obsolete gas main under the capital. This is causing a good deal of disruption to traffic.  It is clear that, as in Suffolk, local residents are not always convinced that the organisation of the project is as good as it should be.  It seems to people that works are often abandoned by workmen for an excessively long time.With its notice  National Grid is obviously trying to pre-empt complaints about this.  I wonder if it has any effect? Or if, indeed, whether improvements could in fact be made.

On my walk I was, as always, amazed at the wide variety of things of interest that one passes in London in the course of a brief excursion.  In addition to the reminder of highways headache in Gresham Street, I passed the wonderful Watts Memorial in Postman's Park (part of which is pictured above). We also took in the memorial to Heminge and Condell, who collected Shakespeare's plays for publication after his death, some strange seats that look like extracted teeth, and a fine cherubic angel above the door of St Anne and St Agnes, the Lutheran Church.