Young fun seekers patrol along Chepstow Down the Hill to Westbourne and back through Portobello Small group of girls only, find some boys, twerk and go Carnival is a freewheeling event happenings occur everywhere Hope the real aficionados will hold the event, come what may Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2018 Carnival Gallery
Colorful ballet of Caribbean flags and skins of every shade The girls proudly flaunt their colors in a hectic parade The razzle-dazzle of the all glamorous in skimpy outfits Beauty inside out in all its shapes, the fireworks of life In a dull and duller world, a life-saving injection of joy Photo Hugh Ardoin The […]
Three girls on a special mission, very serious about fun In next to no time, they will wring a smile and confession From any innocent soul that falls at their hands No waterboarding required, rum does it much better Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2019 Carnival Gallery
Girls are louder than the boys, and sure they can shout While the music rigs trundle down Chepstow, blaring A multicolored crowd follows in step like an army, signing It is one of those moments when you are one and you are all… Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2019 Carnival Gallery
It is happy hour every minute on Chepstow The girls go live and keep the “oglers” ogling The best thing you can do about life is to be yourself As the sand runs out of our hourglass Our glass we rise and drink to crime… Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2019 Carnival Gallery
The signs on the road tell the buses to stop Girls have their own language selfie to body Images fall through our eyes like autumn leaves They are chased by the whims of life and scamper away Leaving long streaks of colors in our memories as we slowly die Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill […]
What happens on the Carnival sidelines stays on the sidelines Under the close and personal guard of Her Majesty’s Constabulary Young girls go wild for a moment, but “Honni soit qui mal y pense” There is more than meets the eye as the times they have been a changin’ for awhile Woodstock is now vintage, […]
Girls do the girls thing when they do not twerk Even on Carnival days, you can’t go on killing men non-stop Sowing cardiac arrests and CVAs by simply rubbing their bodies They meted some harsh punishment in Salem in the old times The old days are gone and who would complain for meeting such a […]
Putting a show between an art gallery and a police horse poster Two girls shake their assets to shock and stun on Westbourne Grove Wrapped in Grenada and Jamaica bright colors shaking their derrières at the crowd of gawkers Taking twerk to another dimension, we are sent flying to the Moon on a one-way ticket […]
Ignoring the boys in blue, the other boys and girls dance in the streets Cordoned off, almost ‘kettled’, the party reaches its boiling point In the eyes of the happy few there is no room at the top for the many At the top of their ivory towers, the ivories lock themselves up in fright […]