It's nearly Guy Fawkes! Time for the British to gather round a roasted traitor and some baked potatoes while the rest of the world wonders what it's all about.

A lit up pub in Golders Green

The restaurant next door, well worth a visit.

A field near Biggleswade abut 30 miles north of London

Another thatched cottage, just west of Cambridge

A view just south of Cambridge.

A new house in the same area.

Bicester at dusk

The view of traditional British villages abroad is pretty accurate, many do look like this. Pleshey in Essex.

Another rural scene nearby.

Twilight over Leaden Roding in Essex

The new medical centre in Ongar

Pleshey Church

Flats round the corner from Ongar health centre

A flat field near Chelmsford

Snapdragons in Hampstead Garden Suburb

One of the many paths in Hampstead Garden Suburb, where I grew up.

I walk to the shops every week or so for my mum and try and get different photos each time as a challenge. Here are some random flowers.

A suburban road in Cambridge.

A bus outside Whittington Hospital in Highgate where I had my appendix out in 1973, and was born in the block behind it.

A 1030s office block around Shoreditch.

Lots of new blocks since I was last in town, this is the Old Street roundabout.