Sunrise on a frosty morning in Surrey (in pictures)

(I can, at least, shoot from the back window, it's only two steps)...Into the early morning mist -

- then as the power of the sun strikes the frost on the fence and shed roof, an amazing display -

- as it transforms the ice into vapour -

- looks like the fence is on fire, smouldering away... ;)

The route of the number 17 bus in pictures

Starting at London Bridge station the bus drives very slowly down London Bridge Street (which is a very short and very busy road indeed)....

...turning right at the lights we touch briefly on Borough High Street, looking here towards the approach to London Bridge...

Stop to pick up a load of people (even though we've only just started) and then across London Bridge itself (although the road is actually called King William Street)...

(peer right now to see up the Thames into the sunrise, spotting Tower Bridge in the distance)...there were people sitting to my left, but had I looked that way you see Blackfriars Station and railway bridge)...

(armed, of course, with trusty metro)

Next it's a sharp left turn into Cannon Street (dodging suicidal commuters running across the road) and pick up loads more people at Cannon Street station (bus is now full and standing)...(look in the distance and you can just about see St. Pauls Cathedral in the background)...

We take a cheeky nip up Friday Street (it's a one way system there)...

...then back onto Cannon Street for the approach to St. Pauls...(bus slowly emptying)...

...next it's down Ludgate Hill (past City Thameslink station)...

...then up Farringdon High Street...

...turning left into Stonecutter Street (that's Sainsbury's Store Support HQ in the background, it's even got a mini supermarket on the ground floor)... ;)

Turn right at the statue of the gentleman on a horse, then up St Andrew Street past the Holborn Viaduct where it becomes Holborn...(by now bus is deserted)...

At the Holborn tube first visible we turn right onto the Grays Inn road...

And follow it allllllll the way into Kings Cross proper...

...where we get stuck in traffic for ages...

...after this we pull into York Way where the bus fills back up again with all the people from Kings Cross station...(I had to stop shooting here cos it was time to pack up my bag and get off! ;)

From here it's just a quick trot to the office...made it to my desk just before 9am today (although the traffic is a factor obviously!)...