NORTHERN PLANNER

I was in London for something or other yesterday, Shoreditch to be precise.

That meant a walk from Liverpool Street Tube, through the Square Mile to Shoreditch. 

It was funny to watch how, in the space of 400 yards, I walked through a sea of pinstripe suits, shiny chrome (and disappearing taxes).

Then passing through some sort of invisible forcefield, immediately entering a world of irony, knowingly sparse and shabby streets,  creative types, T4 presenters in general extras from The Mighty Boosh.

Funny how two completely opposite worlds co-exist next to each other, one the complete antithesis of the other. That amazes me about cities, the way they self organise like that. In the small of a few footsteps, everything changes.