Love on the Marsh

Lower Marsh is the London street on which I work. For some reason it has become a hotspot on the film location trail.

Last summer it was Woody Allen ... and a Bentley ...

Last week it was internet dating site Match.com, filming a sixty-second ad in three days. To the untrained eye, this comprised of man and woman bumping into each other as one left a musical instrument shop façade (the erstwhile independent bookseller, Crockatt & Powell, having croaked its last -- even the valedictory YouTube Depeche Mode video on its blog got removed for copyright violation) and the other staggered out of the Camel & Artichoke drinking den.

Quite why this process would take three days on location beats me. How many times can you film two people meeting before 'love at first sight' starts to look like 'oh no, not you again'.