Post Meridian
Posted in London on 15th July 2006
Once again I've come away from Literary London feeling energised and enthusiastic about the City and it's stories. A strange conference in some ways this year - the theme of 'The River' was so appropriate, given that the Thames flowed sluggishly just feet from where we discussed its representation. Many...
Ante Meridian
Posted in London on 12th July 2006
It's been a long hot day, in uncertain territory. My customary summer foray into academia has arrived again. It sort of crept up on me this year. Without the strange structure which the appeal season used to give to my summer, I found myself starting this week at work with...
Lazy Sunday Afternoon Spoon
Posted in Railways on 9th July 2006
Another in the occasional series of photographs taken practically on my doorstep... 47813 'John Peel' thunders through Highbridge on route to St. Phillips Marsh On the way home, a couple of kids who'd seen me crashing about at the end of the platform asked me if I...