Thursday, 12 August 2021

Thank you and Good Night

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And to restate the blindingly obvious - Adios Amigos xx
Friday, 25 September 2020

Lockdown and Beyond

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When it started it was sort of an adventure, we'd heard from the people trapped in Wuhan that they had been told it could be transmitted...
Thursday, 13 August 2020

Brewing Storm

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Yesterday's front never reached the back of our house - it remained for a while a ridge of building cloud when I looked out front but it...
Wednesday, 12 August 2020

Front

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There’s a hot wind blowing from the west, whipping up the clouds in the upper atmosphere - big and frothy with crisp edges picked out by the...
Tuesday, 22 October 2019

Tube Travelling 5

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Down and outs of the underground Everything hurts, face scarred, fingers torn and filthy, an empty coffee cup, held out as a container, begg...

Tube Travelling 4

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There are an unusual number of observers on the tube today - 3 out the 12 where usually it is just me. Everyone else lost in their world of ...

Tube Travelling 3

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Years of travelling the same route, then forced to redirect on the whim of the underground bosses - directed walkways and thought-through on...

Tube Travelling 2

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An ashy old man in an olive parka sits on the Victoria line holding a plastic bottle of water, his hand is twitching making the bottle squea...

Tube travelling

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The neurotic itchy people seem to pierce my eye more readily than the still calm people. Leg twitching, uncontrolled expressive faces, tics ...
Friday, 24 May 2019

Distressed Voting

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Never has it been such a difficult decision, faced with an arms-length of choices, it ended up being purely tactical, on the back of a numbe...
Wednesday, 15 May 2019

Pigeon

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There's a pigeon at the cake stall in Kensington High Street Station. One of those soot covered dark street pigeons that London has (alo...
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Monday, 29 April 2019

Perceptions of Colour

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Four youths waiting for a Victoria line train at Kings Cross are arguing about colours. What colour is this? They start asking for second op...
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Thursday, 25 April 2019

Longing

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She’s young, sitting legs crossed, arms up holding a mirror slightly over eye height colouring in her eyebrows, checking they are evenly fu...
Sunday, 21 April 2019

Zephaniah Trouble Thomas

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Zephaniah had to be rehomed today. Two male personality clashes. He couldn’t learn to behave.  I’m bereft. Hope it subsides soon.
Thursday, 18 April 2019

Waiting

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5 mins for a circle line train. Station staff on the tannoy calling for an urgent attendant to a “human spillage on the edge of platform 3”....
Sunday, 14 April 2019

Top Secrets from the Underground

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I don’t know many real secrets of the underground having never worked for them but I do know that at Manor House they have installed a new e...
Monday, 28 January 2019

Painting

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We have been painting. Continuing on from creating an homage to the Panther's mother we have kept going. For me its about learning to m...

Happy New Year (and its almost a twelfth over)

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I've been missing. Guilty. Two readers have now mentioned it to me. Sometimes I'm feeling like I have nothing to say, or nothing tha...
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Saturday, 25 August 2018

Leopold

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Six years ago I got two cats from a litter of my friend’s aunt. To catch the mice we were having trouble eradicating (didn’t take them long ...
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Monday, 16 July 2018

Reading Murder Mysteries

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So reading murder mysteries seems to make me notice the odder things in the daily commute - a woman who had her dress on inside out - labels...
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Wednesday, 21 March 2018

Playing people tessellation on the tube

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Crammed in Pressed up against the last man in’s backpack. Two people force their way on behind me. Small woman who can’t stand still and fi...
Tuesday, 13 March 2018

Monkeys in Chapel Street Market

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A long time ago, the '70s, we used to live in Myddleton Square and shop for veg and fruit in Chapel Street Market. There used to be a ma...
Friday, 2 March 2018

Siberian Winter

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Blanket of snow Snowing Sunshine through snow Blue sky Snowing Sun melts snow on south facing Icicles form off the shed roof Footprin...
Saturday, 9 December 2017

Being the subject

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So it was Friday night, after a long working week. We wanted to do something. Had a few options from calling around. The Wadadlian called by...
Monday, 16 October 2017

Dark descends

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And outside, the sky has darkened to the luminosity of night, beyond dusk, the air yellow like electric storms. Leaves are blowing off the t...
Thursday, 5 October 2017

Absence

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I've not been here much. Its been a difficult year. An annus horriblis. And it isn't over yet. There have been fights about techno...
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Wednesday, 4 October 2017

Evening commute

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Got out of the tube and the air was that weird yellow - dark storm clouds one side and blue sky streaked with airplane streamers the other ...
Friday, 4 August 2017

Lunchtime City

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It's pleasant drinking coffee and eating a sandwich in a large plate glass window of the cafe. The window increases the warmth of the su...
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Tuesday, 25 July 2017

Eyebrows

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What's with eyebrows these days. I'm all for thicker more prominent versions than plucked to within an inch of their life. But we ar...
Friday, 12 May 2017

Birthday eve

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The man opposite is feeling the heat - his pumped torso stretches against his sweater, clearly ripped through the cloth, and his head drops ...
Monday, 8 May 2017

Painting

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We decided to paint three pictures of the Panther's mother to show at her funeral. We began on the weekend. The painting is a...
Wednesday, 26 April 2017

Time Passing in a Vaccum

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Sadly the Panther's mother died. A short stint at home after hospital, then a stay in St James' Hospice and a return to home. Life s...
Tuesday, 28 March 2017

Feeling

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The spring sunshine is semi-warm - coat is done up but benefits from a warming glow on the back as I walk through Holland Park. I can feel t...
Thursday, 23 March 2017

Commuters

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He wears a crisp white shirt with a black bow tie, black suit and black rimmed hat. Woman in a red dress. Next to me a lady takes a selfie f...
Wednesday, 8 March 2017

Space Oddity

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A grey day that started before the alarm went off. He couldn't sleep from discomfort, got up, did stuff. She lay in bed wishing he would...