Of all the second languages Tower Hamlets Council would include in notices, German is most unexpected: only 2.1% of its population was born in Germany.

A black dumpster with a multilingual notice in English and German, and a Free Palestine sticker

In the well-being corner of Canary Wharf, the over-monied can pay to be locked in a freezer

Shop front advertising hyperbaric and cryo therapy

Pigeons enjoy a characteristic East End meal

Urban pigeons on a drain cover in a park eat discarded naan bread and curry - one bird flies into the shot

Windy afternoon for the coots on Telehouse Pond

A pond in the city, windblown reeds and a fountain plume bent over by the wind. Two coots swim towards distant buildings