Roland Clare November 2010

This was the first time I've ever 4quated in the dark and the driving rain; the photographs below reflect all that Novembering.

I said, 'No 1 ever starts his self.'

He said, 'Yes they do. You dont start the life in you thats like a rivver running in you stil there comes a time when you push your oan boat out in to the middl of it.'

(page 182)



Behind the grille that protects the glass of a very distinctively run-down, military memorabilia shop that has finally folded after occupying a conspicuous corner-site near the centre of Bristol for a good sixty years



Similarly, my Riddley quotation peeping from behind a grid: here it's in front of some posh offices built inside a mediaeval building, St Bartholomew's Hospital, in the centre



A longer shot of the same



Self-explanatory ... lots of people will have seen this one, I imagine



The old telephone-box gambit is getting a bit hackneyed by now ... though the boxes are getting harder and harder to find