Chaucer's house Aldgate

London is really like no other place. Within ten minutes walk from our house you can see changes every day. Here we saw the building of Chaucer's house. It is meant to be temporary until after the Olympics but the builders told me they thought it was a permanent structure. 

The work drew lots of interest from the city workers- this is rather a quiet part of the City.  It used to be lovely with the 'Three Nuns Hotel' nearby where I remember tracing their outlines on the signs while we were always seeming to wait for buses.

And then on the way home this..  I saw the chap last year- he normally has a younger man with him who just kind of guards the pianist. I think this is the last year of the pianos in London