Downhill
Southbank skateboard generation The future has wheels and will travel downhill While the old masters clutch to the handles of power The younger in their natural wisdom turn away in disgust Waiting for the old guard to turn into dust Such is our world pushed and shoved into its self-defeating impasse Surfing on lies from […]
Girl sticks her tongue out ,must be the jet-fuel effect A bottle containing a strange turquoise brew like a blue lagoon The paradise romantic drink served at Trader Vic’s ages ago The burn out is near but the road goes downhill from here Body-count will take place at the gates… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting […]
Getting an eyeful, the t-shirt tells it all Mania and vibes as the temperature rise The sidelines are part of the show An endless social portrait gallery With young beauties swimming away Flowing with the music down the Hill Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2019 Carnival Gallery
Unlike some other places here umbrellas are for peace A group of fun-seeking revelers follow their leader Dancing all the way down to the Gate of Notting Hill Following racial murders and subsequent riots The Carnival was created to put an end to violence Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2019 Carnival Gallery
A British visitor to the new London colony The revolution is in colors even unexpected The hegemony has passed its highest point Now it is the easy way, all downhill A few gin-t’s will help going faster… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2019 Carnival Gallery
Don’t ask don’t tell a smile is worth a thousand words Bad girls on their best behavior flaunting their advantages Chepstow Road is a slippery slide all the way downhill No wonder why they call it the road to perdition Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2019 Carnival Gallery
The twerking quickly becomes a melee And the parade changes into a kind of battlefield The Soca Weekenders Mas Band are warming up From the heights of Chepstow to the gate it is all downhill So let the music play and the band march away dancing Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2017 Carnival Gallery
Dancers and the temptresses rest their wings on the way down the hill It will be time enough when the parade reaches the Notting Hill gates At the bottom of the hill the angels will meet their wingless kin And with the succubus, the she-wolves and the vampyres they will dance The masquerade is the […]
Nothing can stop Notting Hill carnival from rolling From the Chepstow heights it is downhill all the way Serious participants appropriately wrapped and masked Lumber away, unflagged and flagged altogether Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2018 Carnival Gallery
Dazed young black beauty with pink colores braids Running out of coke and steam on the top of Chepstow From here it will be downhill to reach the big smoky noise It is Christmas now but nothing compares to the carnival days Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2018 Carnival Gallery