I’m going to be settled in SW17 at least until the end of January. Let’s see how things are by then. It’s a bit odd, I haven’t quite got my head round the idea that I’m not going anywhere else for 8 weeks or so. I’m looking forward to continuing to have adventures even though…
I’m creating a little e-book (will probably put it on lulu.com so you can get hard copy too!) of reflections based on my travels since the end of June. This is the prologue I’ve written to explain what it’s about, I hope it whets your appetite for the whole thing! “This is a self-portrait –…
Photo by Patrick Hadfield I’ve got a last-minute slot to do my show about this year’s American trip at #C4CC again tomorrow night. I’m working on some other dates too but if you’re around in London it would be great to see you, do bring a friend! And remember #C4CC can’t serve booze, so bring…
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I'm reading Bruce Chatwin's The Songlines, as #llobo's tend to do. Actually I'd avoided reading it till now because I didn't want it to unduly influence my thinking about my own wanderings. Which it now is, of course, but that's another story. There's a point though where one of the characters reads from Karl Marx's…
Having raised the idea and let it percolate through me for a week or so, I know now that I really do want to settle for a while but I’m not sure how to do it. I need to switch gear somehow and start doing things differently. I trust that I’ll get direction by putting it through…
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The other kids in our road, they all knew each other already. I didn’t know how to introduce myself, how to find my way into their group. How do you get people to play with you when they don’t know you and you’re completely convinced that they don’t want to play with you and anyway…
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I sat in the Bathtub That Must NOT Be Overfilled this morning and watched while the water ran away. A tiny whirlpool formed above the plughole, but that wasn’t the first I noticed of it. A single, bright, naked bulb shines above and slightly to the bather’s left (assuming that the bather assumes the traditional…