Disconnected Jottings

When I was young and living in London, we had older houses around our way, and the smoking chimneys in the winter time used to fascinate me. I remember the smell, too. This photo reminds me of those houses but they weren't so densely packed. (I added rain to the photo.)   In later years the Alan Price Set released a record called "Don't Stop The Carnival" and these are some of the words that fit the photo:   But this is England on a winter's afternoon There is no sun, there's just a pale and tardy moon And shivering sparrows on the smoking chimney tops And all the children suffer from cold and flue and raindrops   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hywhSFg0b9w      

Someone dropped a gallon of pale blue paint on the road by my driveway, last night. I tried to wash it down but it was already drying. The park workers saw it this morning and got to work with a power washer.  Click on the link. Paint on the road