On the rooftops of London

We have come up to London for the day as MrHCB should be having his second vaccination this very minute in a lovely new health centre in Islington.  I am waiting in the flat for the electrician who is coming to do a few repairs, and amusing myself by taking photos from the balcony.  I am using the Sony RX10iv which has an amazing zoom lens.  Clockwise from top left:  the bull weathervane on the roof of The Rookery hotel which describes itself as "a 1764 townhouse with antique-laden rooms"; some sort of loader being craned over the top of a 12 storey office block under construction over the Farringdon Crossrail station; estate agent and clients on the roof of the largely empty office block which has the HQ of Save the Children UK (Rob will remember this), with the towers of the Barbican in the background (you can also see them behind the bull); and a pod that has appeared on the roof garden of the new extension to the Alan Baxter building in Cowcross Street, with the 15th century tower of the church of St Bartholomew the Lesser within the precinct of Barts Hospital just visible back left.