Thursday, 31 July 2014

Trains

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I'm waiting at Peckham Rye Station for a train to Victoria on my way to a meeting in Kensington. I'm at a different platform than my...
Thursday, 24 July 2014

Passing

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An old lover passes in the street. A year has passed since I saw him last. He looks happier than the last chance meeting we had. He is strol...

Scream if you want to go faster

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OMG Thorpe Park. Family day out with my sister, her husband and my niece and nephew. Mostly there was queuing. Between 50 and 85 minutes per...
Thursday, 17 July 2014

Go Cats

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I got cats a couple of years ago because I first had a rat problem and then when I'd gotten rid of them I got mice. Fairly persistently....
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Wednesday, 16 July 2014

Bus stop compliments

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Waiting in Dalston for a bus. Stop crowded with after work shoppers. A thin old man with the blackest skin and false teeth too big for his g...
Monday, 14 July 2014

Girl in the city - old draft post from 2009

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Girl in the City There's a building site next to my office that I pass everyday. Yesterday the foreman ran over wanting to exchange numb...

Two glasses of wine

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He arrived at the same time as me, ordered 2 glasses of wine and a portion of chips and told the barstaff he'd be over in the corner. He...

World Cup 2014

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Germany supporters in Shorditch celebrating their World Cup Win - road blockage, impromptu motorbike wheelspins display in the road. Disgrun...
Thursday, 10 July 2014

Ordering the whole menu

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It started off with a trip to a secret gig at No Show Space in which the artist, Giorgio Sadotti, sang songs he had written to accompany h...
Wednesday, 2 July 2014

Lunchtime tennis

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More London big screen in the scoop showing tennis. Workers flocking to watch in their stolen lunchtimes. Not even sure it's because it ...
Monday, 30 June 2014

Painting

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Still trying to sort out the house après le film crew. Painting. All Sunday. Two coats so far. It's nice to get rid of the sort of dingy...
Sunday, 29 June 2014

The Annual Val Hugo Memorial Mele

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So I spent Saturday playing pétanque on a triangle of ground with an appropriately gravelled surface down Narrow Street in Docklands near Th...
Friday, 27 June 2014

Grass (2)

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The last time I came to this cafe to eat there was a man with his feet in the grass . Today sitting looking out of the window of the cafe I ...
Wednesday, 25 June 2014

World Cup 2014

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It started off pretty exciting - lots of good feeling and summer joy, Brazilian carnival taking over London. Pretty quickly depressed by Eng...
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Monday, 16 June 2014

Lunchtime queuing in tescos

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Tooley street tesco, down some escalators into the basement. Pick up a quick sarnie and some fruit. Well, that was the idea anyway. The queu...
Sunday, 15 June 2014

Gossip from the green room and other parts of the filming

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One of the actors flew in from LA to do his part. He had one line. He does a lot of street performance making like a silver statue. And once...

Making a film

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Never had any idea what kind of chaos making a film is. Lent my house for a set. It's doubling as set and base for the film. Kitchen is ...
Wednesday, 11 June 2014

Regrets, I've had a few

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Lovely evening spent with pops, bails and heather spaffing on about a number of things while pops fed us delicious dinner and plied us with ...
Monday, 9 June 2014

New phone

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I've never dropped a phone before. Had it splashed by salt water when a wave swept up unexpectedly behind me and soaked me (it corroded ...
Thursday, 5 June 2014

Post

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There was a time when you had to go to a shop to purchase an item and have cash to cover the cost. (I don't have a good memory of these ...