At low tide, the Thames throws up all manner of wrack.
Look between the jetty stanchions …
… to find that the receding waters have deposited a busker on the mud of the exposed river bottom.
He was pretty awful.
I couldn't be bothered waiting for the tide to reclaim him so I moved on.
I had the added incentive that the weather was turning nasty.
Look at St.Paul's in the previous post and look at it in this one; they were only taken twenty minutes apart.
I had the added incentive that the weather was turning nasty.
Look at St.Paul's in the previous post and look at it in this one; they were only taken twenty minutes apart.
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It was in that muck that I once watched a pigeon eating the entrails of a drowned rat. High tide is better.
Only you could have found this chap!
At first I thought he was practicing his rock music, but so close to the water? Naw. Outcast by fellow buskers, for his odd passions -
http://youtu.be/KOM3FbQp1jc
he must've been serenading his lady love with a little ditty call "Fish and Paint," which I can't find.
Eww, Robyn! Actually, the sight you witnessed was probably far more entertaining than this busker.
I agree: high tide is much better.
Mum, it was such an awful racket that peering over the rails to see what was making it was unavoidable.
Hee hee, Speedway. Hoorah for Mister Obvious!
This is strange, for sure. And the words on his amp -- "Lame Roof Moth"? Unless the first letters were cut off. Then it could be "Flame Proof Moth", which could "hold water" if the "moth" was soaked by the Thames. :-)
I remember reading somewhere that the low tides of the Thames have been known to reveal all sorts of treasures.
Strange indeed, Ms.M.
If he had been any good I'd have probably been more worried about him being reclaimed by the waters, but in his case it would be merciful for all concerned.
Petrea, Mudlarks have been part of London for centuries and they are still there in their droves, with sticks and metal detectors at every low tide.
Occasionally they'll find a Roman statue or a bronze age sword, but more usually it's just rubbish.
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