31/12/15: Abandoned creature #5

Woodside Park. A turtle perhaps?

31/12/15: Abandoned pony

Woodside Park. This pretty little pony was sadly losing some of its hair.

16/12/15: Abandoned hat #2

Totteridge.

26/11/15: Abandoned Minnie Mouse

Argyle Road, N12. Never really understood the appeal of Mickey Mouse or his girlfriend Minnie Mouse. The same must have gone for whoever ditched this not-very-mini Minnie in a Finchley skip.

23/11/15: Abandoned spy thriller #2

Near Euston station. Fourth abandoned book in just over a year (see also HERE). So far thrillers are the most popular abandoned genre.

16/11/15: Abandoned creature #4

Near Goodge Street tube. A cousin of Abandoned creature #3? Click HERE to compare. Are these furry animals now living and breeding in London?

13/11/15: Abandoned pig head

Pig's head suspended on the bridge at West Finchley tube station, perhaps to ward off evil.

12/11/15: Abandoned creature #3

Totteridge & Whetstone tube station. Hard to resist, but resisted the little guy was.

11/11/15: Abandoned woman

Near Goodge Street tube station. No idea who this long-haired beauty is. To her credit, she continued dancing even after her fortunes took a downturn and she ended up abandoned, on the floor, splattered with mud.

02/11/15: Abandoned hand

Warren Street. Probably the nastiest "abandoned" item ever. Middle finger has a piece of string attached. If it hadn't have been so close to Halloween, I would have been calling the police...

25/10/15: Abandoned keys #2

Left on the Northern Line at about 11 p.m., this bunch contained a car key, a Tesco club card, a chain and a penknife. If you're looking for them, I handed them in to lost property at Totteridge & Whetstone ticket office.

10/10/15: Abandoned map

It was loitering (and littering) in Copthall, NW4, but this cartographic fragment depicts the A110, the A112 and King George's Reservoir near Chingford.

10/10/15: Abandoned creature #2

Whetstone. Lying, unloved, on the wall next to the closed-down Sequoia nightclub (see HERE for info). No wonder he's blue.

09/10/15: Abandoned creature

Dinosaur? Dragon? Crocodile? Whatever it was, the poor beast had been stuffed into a cardboard box and left in the street opposite Kentish Town tube station.

03/10/15: Abandoned Minion

Near East Barnet library. Everyone seems to love the ugly yellow "Minions". Not this one, though.

25/09/15: Abandoned tie #2

At the top of Totteridge Lane, next to the Whetstone Boots. Fairly smart, and more attractive than its cousin HERE.

10/09/15: Abandoned trainers

Near Goodge Street tube station. Not much wrong with these trainers, other than them being trainers.

07/09/15: Abandoned bear

Despite being sadly abandoned, this bear appeared to do a little dance as I passed it on Stanhope Street, NW1. I hope he found his way home.

06/09/15: Abandoned remote control #3

North Finchley car park. Remote controls are clearly THE fashionable item to abandon right now. As a bonus, here's an army helicopter too.

04/09/15: Abandoned remote control #2

William Road, NW1. Two more remote controls, a TV screen, a VCR, a table and a painting.

04/09/15: Abandoned remote control

William Road, NW1.

24/08/15: Abandoned panda #2

Stanhope Street, NW1. Click HERE to see his abandoned pal.

10/08/15: Abandoned keys

Totteridge. Found these in the road and placed them on this post. Six days later they were still there. On the seventh day, they had vanished.

06/08/15: Abandoned baby bottle

Just up the road from Totteridge & Whetstone tube station, balanced on the edge of a phone box. But why?

03/08/15: Abandoned penguin

Albany Street, NW1. Slightly faceless penguin. Poor little guy, lying there unloved.

25/07/15: Abandoned phone case

Whetstone. This was supposed to protect the phone, but look at the state of it!

22/07/15: Abandoned whistle character

Stanhope Street, NW1. A curious man-whistle.

21/07/15: Abandoned firearm

Granby Terrace, NW1. Thunderfire 509.

19/07/15: Abandoned p.701

Near Camden Arts Centre, NW3. Page 701 of a rather racy novel.

18/07/15: Abandoned man #2

Whetstone High Street. Another abandoned man (see also here). This one has fancy green boots. Less appealingly, he had a long human hair wrapped around him.

18/07/15: Abandoned money

Whetstone. Two £50 notes. In Scott B. Smith’s novel A Simple Plan, two brothers and their friend stumble across $4.4 million in a crashed plane in the woods. They decide to keep the money – with extreme and tragic consequences. I'm hoping that my decision to keep this £100 will be relatively trouble-free.

17/07/15: Abandoned beauty

Written on wall near Camden.

07/07/15: Abandoned frog

Totteridge. Felt rather moved by the plight of this poor fellow.

27/06/15: Abandoned knickers #2

Waitrose car park, Whetstone.

25/06/15: Abandoned logic

Whetstone. Turn left here, through the brick wall, to the Boots car park.

21/06/15: Abandoned guitar

Near Golders Hill Park, North London.

11/06/15: Abandoned "I've had an eye test" sticker

Whetstone. "I've had an eye test". Maybe you have, but you've also abandoned the sticker that proves it.

30/05/15: Abandoned number plate #3

Latest in an occasional sub-series (see also HERE and HERE). This was outside the back entrance of the Whetstone Boots.

25/05/15: Abandoned horse, abandoned knickers

Waitrose car park, Whetstone. Black horse, black knickers.

25/05/15: Abandoned man

Waitrose car park, Whetstone. A little man lost in a big world. Know the feeling.

28/04/15: Abandoned number plate #2

At the top of Totteridge Lane, next to the Whetstone Boots. See HERE for the previous abandoned number plate.

22/04/15: Abandoned motorcycle

In the estate just off Albany Street, London, NW1: the skeleton of a burned-out motorbike.

22/04/15: Abandoned sheet music

At the top of Totteridge Lane, next to the Whetstone Boots, was this sheet music. There is nothing written on it, suggesting that the music – as well as the sheet – had been abandoned.

16/04/15: Abandoned bathtubs

Just off Harrington Street, NW1. Like beached whales, they were stranded with little hope of surviving the ordeal of being out of their usual habitat.

08/04/15: Abandoned "I'm a Star" hat

Albany Street, London, NW1. One of the myths created by the "TV talent-show" culture is that "everyone can be a star". In fact, most people cannot be a star and should not be a star. Wearing this hat will not help you be a star, either.

24/03/15: Abandoned chairs

Two rather appealing chairs abandoned on Stanhope Street, NW1.

15/03/15: Abandoned Super Fly

Lindfield Gardens, NW3. Selection of "blank" videos (various brands), plus a copy of Super Fly.

14/03/15: Abandoned Frankie

Near Whitings Hill School, Barnet.

14/03/15: Abandoned filing cabinet and fridge

Just down the hill from Totteridge & Whetstone tube station at the start of the river walk.

14/03/15: Abandoned goop

Totteridge pavement. I thought this white goop was whipped cream, but after a few days it still looked identical (rather than collapsing into a wet mush, as you'd expect). It turned out to be some kind of chemical sealant and had set hard. Who would leave chemical sealant at the bottom of a tree? I moved it to a skip. It will still be sitting in landfill about 30,000 years from now.