My husband Kurt and I returned Friday from London—the historic city that is roiling with the unanswered question of how the United Kingdom can maneuver itself from membership in the European Union and not wreck its economy. The jury remains out on Britain’s future as the clock ticks down and British politicians point fingers and live in denial. They have two weeks to come up with something remotely resembling a plan to go forward.
Poster in The Second Shelf, a bookstore featuring women authors.
The day we left London, March 29, 2019, was slated to be the day Britain left the EU. Instead the United Kingdom, Europe, and the rest of the world wait for a Brexit solution.
Meanwhile in the streets, the Tube (the subway) and the pubs of London, life goes on. Here are the signs of the times as we found them in London last week.
Poster art in the Tube station. 
London’s classic admonishment to take care getting off the Tube. 
Anna Pavlova poster in the Victoria & Albert Museum. 
Classic 1978 concert T-shirt. 
David Bowie 1983 tour poster in the V&A. 
Cameras through the ages. 
V&A renovations apology. 
Statue on the balcony above the classics section of the Victoria & Albert Museum. 
Poster in the Hammersmith Tube station. 
Costume label from the V&A theatre exhibit. 
Impromptu subway art. 
London’s Covent Garden. 
Sign in a women’s restroom. 
Subway art competition. 
Plants for sale at London’s Kew Gardens. 
Queen Victoria’s royal cipher Beside the entry to London’s Kew Gardens.
//Anna ~ 3/31/2019
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