A little archness

Coming home from the Tate Britain gallery today, we stopped at Marble Arch. It's a piece of architecture that the Brits moved to the corner of Hyde Park because it no longer fitted where it was originally intended. We've all got pieces of furniture like that -- ones that don't look right but are too good to throw out. (Some people even have relatives like that.)

Politicians speak openly of The War on Terror, but there's another unspoken war going on in London: The War on Pigeons.
And it's not just on monuments and tourists attractions. The anti-avian acicular array pictured here is employed on window sills, ledges, rails, awnings, etc., everywhere one looks. In places like Trafalgar Square there are now signs warning people against giving aid, shelter or sustenance to pigeons and it'll soon be illegal to even associate with columbidaean sympathizers. It all seems a bit extreme, but you have to admit that it could get ugly if the pigeons coordinated their forces to stage a coo.