[ 17:00 saturday 23 may – haggerston road, london ]
i’ve uploaded a set of twenty-three photos from london taken during february and march. the aerial views were on a return flight from california when the flight path, time of day and weather conditions conspired to give me perfect views of the whole city from east to west.

the snow came at the beginning of february and lasted almost a week, by far the best snowfall i’ve experienced in london. the shots at columbia road market were taken over an hour and show the changing light as the weather changed and the snow started to fall.

sergio, pradeep and i spent several glorious hours on london fields constructing an enormous snow totem which was taller than us.

meanwhile my roof terrace was transformed.

view the rest of the photos here.

: c :

[ 01:16 thursday 9 april – haggerston road, london ]

jonathan taps away at his laptop beside the table whilst i patter away on mine atop the piano. in the kitchen one of the strange ayurvedic teas sergio brought back from sri lanka is boiling away. this one consists of tiny curled pieces of peppery-smelling dark brown bark which must be boiled until the liquid reduces to a fifth of its volume. already it’s a thick stinky black soup. previously i inflicted a different one made from stewed wood chippings on adam and tree. their verdicts on the flavour: “basement” and “sauna” respectively.

at the weekend i started transferring all my wanderer despatches going back to 1999 onto a new platform. i’m having to copy and paste each post manually, set the correct date and time and remove blojsom’s maddening markup. i’m up to 2007 so it should soon be ready to unveil.

meanwhile here are eighty-four more pictures from the beginning of this year.

: berlin (xii 2008 – i 2009) :
23 photos from the chaos communications congress and new year with timur and his friends

: luxor (i 2009) :
49 photos of backstreets, village life, the nile and ruins

: aswan (i 2009) :
12 photos of aswan and the enchanting island of abu

: c :

[ 00:17 tuesday 17 march – haggerston road, london ]

a package containing six hundred and twelve slides arrived on my doorstep a couple of weeks ago. gradually i’ve been cataloguing and scanning them. here’s the first batch of seventy-four images.

: england (vii-x 2008) :
13 photos of henley royal regatta, mum and dad’s garden and recording with bbc radio 3 in newcastle.

: cornwall (x 2008) :
18 photos walking the coast in a gale.

: maryland coast (x 2008) :
21 photos of fauna, flora, landscape and light around the beaches and salt marshes.

: paris (xi 2008) :
22 photos of claire’s art show, underground parties and the metro.

: c :

[ 01:51 tuesday 18 november – haggerston road, london ]

today i was finally well enough to return to the trampery, still coughing and sniffling a bit but basically myself. over the weekend i was still quite weak but succeeded in enjoying myself judiciously. on saturday evening i went to the cinema in bethnal green with sergio and pradeep. during the last quarter of the film the projectionist got confused (or drunk) and messed up switching reels. the screen went dark, the house lights came up, people started to look round uncertainly. sergio, shameless as ever, pulled out his phone and dialed the number of the box office: “the film has stopped, what the fuck is happening?”. the reply “there is a technical problem” was immediately relayed by sergio to the rest of the audience. he then told everyone they should demand their money back. after several minutes the film started again, made it to the end and people started filing out. sure enough a crowd formed around the box office and the manager gave everyone free tickets for another performance. i doubt people would have demanded recompense without sergio’s prompting, it’s not the english way at all. i love the way sergio stirs things up.

herewith eighty-one more photos.

: miami (vii 2008) :
17 photos of miami in a tropical storm, illicit drum circles on the beach and recording with shemoel.

: stromboli (viii 2008) :
41 photos on stromboli and ginsotra with friends.

: blue ridge mountains (ix 2008) :
23 photos trekking in virginia’s blue ridge mountains with butterflies, snakes and incredible weather; plus forays to the maryland coast and washington dc.

: c :

[ 22:35 thursday 13 november – haggerston road, london ]

for the whole of this week i’ve been confined to barracks with an extraordinarily vicious flu. leaving dalston’s moustache bar at four on sunday morning i was surprised to discover my voice was a couple of octaves below the regular tesitura. thinking nothing of this, i continued to rampage through a surreally ghastly poetry event in stamford hill and bebop night at uncle sam’s on sunday evening. however on monday i woke up to a fever and a complete inability to speak. i still feel grim today but i’m unmistakably on the mend. the most productive thing i’ve managed to do in the last few days is whack another batch of photos on the web.

: london (vii-ix 2008) :
17 photos of friends, parties, music and merriment in what laughably passed as london’s “summer”.

: foo camp 2008 (vii 2008) :
19 photos at tim o’reilly’s techno-futurist retreat under canvas in sebastopol, california.

: california (vii 2008) :
21 photos of seaweed at bodega bay, san francisco and visiting vajra at the zan center in san francisco.

: c :

[ 00:23 thursday 4 september – haggerston road ]

ninety-eight pictures from may and june.

: granny (v 2008) :
27 photos – being with granny in hospital, her beautiful garden, echoes of her around the house.

: stromboli (v 2008) :
17 photos – brief but glorious escape to stromboli, bush fires in sicily, rome from the air.

: hokkaido (vi 2008) :
54 photos – infinity ventures summit in sapporo, the misty shores of lake shikotsu, climbing mount aniwa.

: c :