Blooming Newcastle

Every summer Newcastle city centre suddenly produces a visual shock by surrounding its honey-coloured stone buildings with tubs, planters and hanging baskets full of flowers - I think it must enter for some "Britain in Bloom" type thing. They are very...bright. Anyway, when I emerged from the station I noticed the man with his little red tanker in the process of watering them. That's the guy in the yellow t-shirt; the others are just innocent passers-by looking slightly lost in a maze of petunia tubs. There are so many that it must take him the best part of each day to water them all. Although come to think of it, later on the rain came p*ssing down for an hour or two, so that he really could have taken the day off.

The church in the background is a cathedral - St Mary's, I think. It must be RC because the statue is definitely Basil Hume (Cardinal). And the sculptor is Nigel Boonham, I found out by accident recently. Only four degrees of separation...