Every night coming from work i pass by this gentleman here selling the Evening Standard. And as usual i stop and take a photo of his headline posters. It was a freezing evening a few weeks back when I felt really sorry for him cause he had to stand there all night.

I asked him if he was cold and he said of course, but the worst was his finger. He showed me his finger which looked slightly de-formed in comparison to the one on the other hand. He then told me the story that years back when he was drunk someone smashed a door and his finger was in the doorframe at that moment. Naturally the finger was crashed. It was so bad that he should have gone to a hospital immediately.

But it happened that on that day in 1987 there was a massive fire at King's Cross Station. He said that he thought all the hospitals would be filled with heavily injured burn victims and that it would be pathetic to turn up there and ask if someone could look after his little FINGER! So he never bothered going to one.

In Germany we have a saying "Falsche Bescheidenheit" - which would translate as "false modesty".

Now everytime it's cold he is reminded of that night.

P.S.: I just read about the fire - it was actually very bad - 31 dead and 120 injured.

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Are there Guiness records for "Earliest Start of Christmas Stuff Sale" or "Laziest Shop Keeper" or "Loving Santa Hats the Most"? - These guys here would hold at least one of those!

...that the summer is over!

I took this photo a few weeks ago. Until then i was sure that no human being could ever be scared by a flower!! I admit this one sent some shivers down my spine. I mean, look at this freaky sun flower zombie. I still try to understand why someone is leaving this 2m (!) tall monster rotting away for at least half a year in his front garden - a garden right next to the street!

Maybe it's a granny who finally found a way how to scare the young noisy kids away?

I added a new project - one that is dealing with the phenomenon of the fact that we always seem to lose one glove - not two. ONE!

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...that BANKSY might have gotten up his own arse a bit too much lately.