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.

11/03/15: Abandoned tie

In the road leading to the car park next to Totteridge & Whetstone tube station. Not bad at all.

22/02/15: Abandoned number plate

Southover, Woodside Park, N12.

02/02/15: Abandoned high-heeled shoe

One black high-heeled shoe strapped to a railing opposite Great Portland Street tube station. Rather fetching, no?

24/01/15: Abandoned superhero

Spiderman, minus limbs, Totteridge.

11/01/15: Abandoned panda

Just opposite Totteridge & Whetstone tube station. Should I phone the zoo?

30/12/14: Abandoned Total Recall

VHS videotape, Swiss Cottage. Post-It note reads "James". Was James the former owner of the tape? Or is the note a reminder of who the tape was borrowed from? In the case of the latter, the need for the scrawled aide-mémoire would suggest a lack of "total recall". And either way, James doesn't have his film any more.

29/12/14: Abandoned Xmas tree

You know Christmas is really over when you start seeing these dumped in the street. This was next to the High Road in Whetstone. Another sign of the holiday season turning sour is the ambulance speeding past.

25/12/14: Abandoned iPhone

Whetstone High Road, Christmas day. The glass frontage was really smashed up and the screen display was doing all sorts of colourful things.

22/12/14: Abandoned cassette #2

This mud-caked cass was the second fun find of an otherwise joyless chilly winter walk in Brook Farm Open Space. It's also the second abandoned cassette found in the vicinity.

22/12/14: Abandoned trolley

Brook Farm Open Space. This toppled trolley has a fetching blue hue. Unusually, it did not seem affiliated to a particular supermarket.