Pensioners Twenty Percent Off!

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If you want to buy a Pensioner, it looks like this is the right shop for you! On Wednesdays, that is.

Whirlitzer In Habbitat

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On Regent Street in London there is a new-ish Habitiat that is in an old Cinema. The building was used as a church for about thirty years but was a Cinema before that, and apparenly had the first ‘Whirlitzer’ Organ in the UK.

Habitat have done an excellent job instalilng their store whilst respecting the history and character of the building, and have even retained the organ in working condition!

Thus when shopping for household goods we were kept entertained by the “oh I do like to be beside the seaside” air of the Whirlitzer.

Kingly Court, off Carnaby Street

Originally uploaded by markltb.

Just off Carnaby Street in London is Kingly Court, which has been reborn as a mini shopper’s paradise. Today when I popped in I saw that they had erected their roof, which is rather funky.

It was quite bright so my camera phone couldn’t actually take this picture in one go – I have taken two separate pictures, one of the roof and one of the people, and combined them with much photoshop munging (Noise Ninja, Lens Correction and then some layer masking).

I’m pretty happy with the result, even for a camera phone.