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Outside Liverpool St Station

You know when you're in a new place, a new country, it's all so fresh. Things like ads on the tube have a kind of fascination that distracts you from where you're trying to go. People on the street, you look at each of them, trying to absorb the details of their faces. You have to work hard to remember your own house number, the path that leads to your new front door.

You kind of wish for that comfortable familiarity that comes from spending a long time in one place.

Ten months later, it is the middle of winter. You catch the same bus every day at the same time. Pass the same land marks. Get stuck in traffic. Maybe you've come across that comfortable familiarity and maybe you don't like it so much now that it's finally arrived.

It took the photo above to swing me back towards liking the everyday. It's mundane, it's a photo of two guys crossing the street. But actually I like their shadows and the texture of the road. And I like the fact that I didn't have to think about finding my way to Liverpool St Station on the tube. There's something to be said for familiarity after all.