I was up in town on Monday, you will have read about that earlier with my Saul Leiter references but with the passage of time and the motion and orbits of the firmament moving rapidly on I could not help but notice how much lighter it was at ‘Pink Pansy’ compared to a month ago at the same time.

Now there is a name I quite like ‘Pink Pansy’. I’ve never seen a pink pansy and I doubt that a pink pansy exists but the name and the flowers all hang together.

This stall was open well past normal hours as it was still open at 20:00 as I legged it to get back to Liverpool Street. It always amazes me how people are suckered into following trends and going home with a bunch flowers in anticipation of St. Valentine’s day. I’ve never seen the rationale for these ordained feasts. It is all a bit of nonsense as far as I am concerned.

Anyway, I was walking through Ipswich the other morning on my way to the University to drop off a donation for the Fine Art Auction – 29th March – take note, and I started looking at shop names and associated thoughts with them.

Fat Face – the very name just closes the door to me. when I first saw a Fat Face sign, in Aldeburgh I believe, I thought it would be a place that sold cakes and pies. I was so disappointed.

County Casuals – there never was anything countrified nor casual in their window either but long gone.

White Stuff – now there’s a shop front that I’ve never seen white stuff in and that appeals to me but it was rather more appealing thinking of the fact that this was Noble Romans Pizzeria when I first came to Ipswich in the late 1970s – the speciality a Nero. You certainly remembered where you had been the night before but a revisit was always on the cards when we called into port again.

I think I may have the musings for a photographic project emerging…