Don't you just love it when the streets are alive with performers? I get such a kick out of the atmosphere when jugglers, artists and musicians and the like descend on our - usually pedestrianised - shopping spaces - and it is never quite the same with the faceless malls. Always gets me smiling.
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| hula hoop of fire |
Today I have been to the city centre of Leicester for instance and have been entranced by a couple playing with fire...this lady hula hooped with her routine - and they chose a good backdrop to set off the fire well - sometimes closed down shops have their uses...
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| street saxophonist |
Then a few yards along the road a jazz musician playing his saxophone - had to get him in here. Bankrupt stock clearance behind but never mind - this was uplifting!
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| pavement artist |
What about a different kind of perfomer?? OK street art here we come... such talent in the wielding of a stick of chalk. Love those cartoonists doing caricatures of paying passers by too.
Even the chuggers were a bit of fun in their silly hats. They are called 'chuggers' which is a humorous shortening of charity muggers!
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Chuggers
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These have all been taken today but I have stilt walkers, statues, comedy routines, choirs, the lot - in my photo folders.
What about the sounds around me today? Imagine all this and in the background the impassioned words of a gentleman on his soap box telling us about God and his merciful ways...funny old world...
