Carnival time

I asked this bunch where they were off to after I had asked if I could take their picture and they said "Duh .... August Bank Holiday ... Notting Hill Carnival?" We are only 23 mins from London by fast train so I should have made the connection. 

Sounds like everyone up there had a great time, unlike Reading Festival where people went bonkers and started setting fire to tents.

Our day was more pedestrian although I was guilty of being in possession of coffee and cake at one point. In the afternoon I got a little melancholy for the second day running due to looking back at family history (yesterday it was photographs, today it was words, including the harrowing tale of my grandfather who was taken into Bernardo's due to family poverty before World War One).

I need to be careful about the past it is clearly influencing my present ...

Overall a good chilled day. Although the news remains a total shitshow. Winter Is Coming ....