My readership (both of you) has no doubt been wondering where I’ve been the past week. (Or perhaps they’ve been relieved of the task of watching those daily videos that jam up their inbox every night). The answer is: Ireland and London. The reason cannot be divulged at this moment in time. Skipping lightly over that mystery, here’s a NASS colorized restoration of footage showing us London in the 1920s. Someone in the comments section refers to it as a ‘London long gone’ but honestly except for the automobiles and the delightful double-decker buses it appears to me to be pretty much the same charming city I walked around a few days ago. The view of Trafalgar Square at 2:40 is precisely the view I had of it while sitting at Cafe Roma having a cappuccino and croissant this past Saturday morning. And although the population is a good deal more ‘diverse’ (oh that word) now as opposed to then, the Londoner attitude is still very much intact, in gait and spirit. You’ll see nice shots of Picadilly Circus (again, to my eyes mostly unchanged), Westminster Parliament, the Tower of London–the usual stuff, only with the added bonus of people wearing the fashions of the times, wandering through their day, unaware that we’d be observing them a century later on something called a computer which, we would have to explain, is a device you’ll be staring at at home most of the time when not staring at your portable telephone on which you perform more or less every task during your day…you get the idea–we’d have a lot of ‘splaining’ to do. Oh, did somebody ask why I couldn’t have posted videos while traveling? That answer is because I am an idiot and forgot to bring a power cord that fit the three-prong Euro socket thingy, thus draining my battery power almost instantly, depriving me of internet usage beyond my phone. Internet, the 1920s Londoner asks in puzzlement? What’s that? Well, it’s a thing that will come into existence in seventy or so years and which you will not be able to live without, holding us in its grip and both expanding all our vistas while draining us of  most of our free time…but permitting us to watch you even though you vanished from this earth decades earlier.