Luton — I’m sitting at home reflecting on the fact that I was given a job today. I am not now going to be made redundant. I have been at risk of redundancy for over a year. I feel nothing.
San francisco — “The Butler’s Pantry?” J. said, looking around. The location was good, but the inside the house looked shabby and dark, with too many partitions. I asked the realtor, “So what happened to the butler?”...
London — So, I popped out for my lunch break, and in the short time while I was out of the office my inbox filled up with notification emails confirming bookings for a particular event that has just been annou...
Tübingen — Police tended to his shattered ride, blocking the road, while paramedics tended to his shattered body. I could see you scanning what was visible through the ambulance’s maw. I could even see what you...
New york — We were all playing at that hidden park by the water overlooking the city. This place is a sanctuary to me. Every time I feel heavy and overwhelmed, I take a short walk to the water, look at the city...
Addis ababa — A very typical street scene. Things that you are supposed to eat lay very close to car exhaust and animal feces … rigorous washing of those items is mandatory and still does not keep away the occa...
Athens — An American guy in the corner reading a fat black paperback; three young girls giggling through Facebook photos on an iPad; a shaggy bartender in skinny jeans and a t-shirt with a neck-hole that looks...
Port townsend — A few months ago, this boat wrecked near the shore, its crooked mast aiming a sharp angle out to the blue Olympics far away. The sail-cloth disappeared first, then the motor. Every week or so another...
New york — Amazing views + art @ the Roof Garden Cafe (Metropolitan Museum)
Sevenoaks — OK, so I’m not that old, but I do rather love maps, and especially old maps. I have quite a few of the village and surrounding area where I live, although mainly photos of maps rather than the real t...
Toronto — I spent years hiking the trails in Rouge Park, before I decided to make my life here. Make a life. What I am doing here, out in these woods, was not in my “life plan”. I am starting fresh, and I am no...
Tübingen — What a strange day that was, back in spring this year. They investigated my innards while I was sleeping, dreamlessly. When I came to, one of the nurses spoke to her colleagues about buying a Mercedes...
London — Well, what can I say?! This, to me, is a jewel in the crown of sugary, baked confection - a butterscotch and pecan yum yum. Classed as a doughnut, there’s nothing healthy or low calorie about this, b...
Sandton — I remember the first time I saw “The Birth of Venus” by Botticelli. I was on honeymoon in Italy and the wonderful thing was that I was not really expecting it all. The great thing about organising a ...
London — Behind the British Library, adjacent to St Pancras Station, this impressively large building is going up at quite a rate. A sign perhaps that the economy isn’t quite as shot to pieces as some would c...
Westcliff-on-sea — If I didn’t have a camera, I would be a painter; if I had no paint, I would translate the memory of my eyes to words.
Wellington — I signed-up for this service a while back. Well, by ‘signed-up’, I mean I put myself into the waiting list for Hi some months ago when I first read about it. I thought it’d be a good service to use ...
Portland — Safe and warm (and out of the crazy rain!) in the corner of a cozy little lobby. I hear cocktail shakers to my left, the click, click, clicks of coffee grinders to my right. Oh, the coffee! A smile o...
Helsinki — Two women sat in a cafe talking about the ways of the world. A man, the partner of one of the women, chimed in every now and then. The conversation carried on at a pleasant gait. I sat opposite this ...
Addis ababa — It is a common saying here that the rainy season stops like clock work on the Meskel holiday, which this year was 26th Sept. and the previous 2 years this held true. Not so much this year. The weathe...
Nairobi — I met this guy in the Maasai Mara and he told me this was a trait of his people. Neither did I have ample internet connection nor other Maasai around to fact check his story … Now, a few days later...
Port townsend — On the beaches people build little structures; driftwood shelters that face the sound, mandalas drawn in the sand, stones stacked to represent what? They are not so much reminiscent of art as they ar...
Brockville — In the garden that surrounds this old stone house in Ontario, only heritage plant varieties are grown. Compared for colour and fragrance with more recent horticultural varieties, the old ones often w...
Brockville — I have visited this place and these friends almost every year for the past twenty or so, even though I live ten thousand miles away. This kind of travel, going back and back, is very different from t...
Brockville — Is the world turning on this subject? I have my doubts and fears. But I also have my hopes and delight.
Brockville — By quick estimate, I reckon there are several hundred recycled pieces of fabric in this quilt. Not a bad effort.
Berlin — “Being alone lets you develop, become strange, be mad. If to be with people is to be socialized, to submit your rough edges to the whetstone of others’ desires, to be asocial is to be ragged and, thus...
Mònti — I’m not a smartphone girl. So when I took this photo with my old Nokia I was alone and completely cut off from the world. A girl with an old Nokia face to the sea. Now, you’re welcome to this moment t...
Aireys inlet — “Grevillea is a diverse genus of about 360 species of evergreen flowering plants in the protea family Proteaceae, native to rainforest and more open habitats in Australia, New Guinea, New Caledonia, I...
Aireys inlet — Up, lad, up, ‘tis late for lying: Hear the drums of morning play; Hark, the empty highways crying “Who’ll beyond the hills away?” A.E, Housman
Lakeland — …and decided that somebody ought to fix that. Amirite? He designed this logo and had it stenciled on all the large glass areas in the buildings he was designing at Florida Southern College. Now th...
Lakeland — It didn’t stop here, but there’s probably a dozen people loitering in the shade of the platform and its sycamore trees. I wonder what line they’re waiting for? As I write, the crossing gates lower ag...
Detroit — It usually ends here: A blinking blue cursor, a thumb hovering over a button marked Send, rumpled sheets in the metallic morning light. A message you’ve sent countless times: “I’m feeling kinda out of...
Liverpool — Looking out at the ocean, watching ships come in to port, this relaxes me and gives me focus. I sit here and read and write. I pray and I think. I love it here.
London — I remember visiting Coram’s Fields and what was left of the Foundling Hospital on a school trip when I was a child (many years ago!). During my lunch break today I made the embarrassing mistake of wa...
Gatlinburg — A cabin on the edge of the Smokey Mountains 6 days with co-workers Ran through a field catching fireflies Climbed the side of a tacky plastic goblin castle Sampled many varieties of moonshine Hea...
New york — Sometimes, either my phone or ‘Hi’ breaks and improvising becomes necessary in order to post/save sketch. For some reason, couldn’t upload appropriate photo here, and it wouldn’t work photo-less. Thus...
Portland — Cycling to the coffee shop, in a daze. “I’ll be 15 minutes late” I texted the woman I was meeting. I pedaled rather hard for foggy eyes, cloudy head. I was late, because HE had called. That beauti...
Christchurch — Perhaps the atmospheric conditions were perfect or some extra reaction was taking place inside the factory. Either way the Woolston steam stack had split in two. I ride or drive this way every day and...
London — This grand station was restored several years ago, resulting in a place worth visiting even if you’re not actually travelling anywhere from it. It certainly deserves to be a tourist destination in its...
Sevenoaks — I don’t know if it’s just a British thing, but every autumn our train companies fiddle with the timetables slightly to allow longer journey times for the earliest trains, to compensate for the delays ...
Tübingen — Portrait of garbage as an aspiring artist. Garbage is a surealist.
Addis ababa — I am a barefoot minimalist runner, using a similar sandal known as the huarache, brought to prominence by the tarahumara Indians in the book Born to Run. My sister whilst travelling to southern suda...
Port wentworth — I’m only here because of love. Every few weekends I leave Atlanta to come here and spend three lazy days with my boyfriend. We spend our mornings on the porch, drinking coffee and making plans for his...
Tokyo — Sara and I are apartment-hunting — it’s been almost two months, and even though we’re making progress, frustration is setting in. Our newest strategy, rather than relying on a single real estate agent...
Seoul — There’s not enough space to park in Seoul, so double parking is very common. It’s not a problem if your car is blocked in by someone else. In some cases the cars are in neutral, so you or a parking at...
Sevenoaks — It’s great when my wife mentions something she would like for her birthday or Christmas but then forgets about it. Months later it always makes for a great surprise (and usually a few tears!). Lovel...
Maidstone — Actually, this is Maidstone, not Sevenoaks, but there seems to be no way to change the location.Update: I’ve changed the location, now that editing is possible! On the site of the former Fremlins bre...
Saline — I ended up staying till 20:40, well an hour after the sunset… Maybe I was tired, I didn’t look up and see if stars and the moon are there, which I usually do…
Gentofte — The old church building was a former school, build back in 1880. In 1956 current church minister agreed to the new building and in 1974 one if those modern does-not-look-like-church was open. Architec...
Istanbul — I’m not keen to leave the lounge because I know: once I leave, I leave the edges of the things I already know, and push into the unknown. I guess it is that fear/excitement combination that makes trav...
Boulder — My friend George took this iconic photo. That’s Steve Jobs & Bill Gates sitting on the staircase of Steve Jobs home. Taken at the height of their competitiveness - George says they were whisperin...
Saline — It’s too bad my MTB racing season has just ended. I went to a lot of places and trails in MI I had never been. I wish I could have posted them here. And I like the limit by the number of words not ch...
New york — Walking at a very fast pace (in heels) to catch the ferry home, des jolis macarons géants made me reconsider my priorities: go home and catch up on important work? Or admire the sweet moment of findin...
Tokyo — My sports therapy clinic’s walls are lined with a series of overly agile, proud and eloquent Japanese calligraphy scrolls that almost seem to nag and mock the painful wrists, arms, necks, knees that a...
London — OK, I admit it. I like graveyards! Whether disused and turned into a pleasant place to enjoy some early autumn sunshine (like St George’s Gardens here), or still active, with a mix of old and new gr...
Laguna niguel — Nothing comes sailing by itself. -Dave Anderson Go small, go simple, go now. -Larry Pardey, Cruising in “Seraffyn”
London — Sometimes as my train into St Pancras crosses the Thames at Blackfriars Station, the view east is so beautiful. The camera on my phone doesn’t do justice to this view of course, but it was still wort...
Newtown — Kev is leaving Australia after living here for 6 years. He and his wife just had twins and made the difficult decision to pack up and move back to Ireland to be with family. While living in Tokyo I g...
Greater sudbury — A friend of mine who always brings me back to earth. We hiked this small mountain in Northern Ontario, Canada. She was visiting before moving away again.
Nairobi — I am still in disbelief how different 2 capital cities in Africa can be. It is also a bit surreal. So far I could only judge from the way airport to hotel. Security is very high, the hotel has guards...
New york — I can’t remember what he sang about but I could feel all his energy, he made it seem like that was the last time we were to meet - ever. This little girl in front of me was so excited and sending him ...
Lauterbrunnen — It looks like some snow has melted, revealing a glacier. This is the first cloudy day all week. There has been little rain.
Lawton — Even the shittiest coffee tastes good French pressed. (Barista knowledge)
London — She arrived after a bit of a delay on the tube and I enjoyed hearing all about her first week at uni. Hopefully an appointment to be repeated at regular intervals over the next few years while she’s ...
Newtown — Have a dinner in any of the dozens of great places to eat in Newtown, for me this time it was “Twelve”, then you can walk along King Street enjoying all the different people that make up the Inner Wes...
Bangalore — Added 1/2 a teaspoon of it when the water started boiling. Added tea leaves after that and let it boil for a while. Poured into a cup with a teaspoon of milk powder and some sugar. This tastes and sm...
Addis ababa — Today the Orthodox Christians in Ethiopia are celebrating the finding of the true cross, a.k.a. Meskel. For this they light a big bonfire and according to the gospel, in which direction the fire fall...
Paris — Down at the Arc de Triomphe, everybody wants their shot. The frame by frame frozen moments of a captured smile, cute pose and huddled group. This little guy watches it all from the corner of Charles d...
Wellington — I get to spend an hour in the morning with my daughter while her mother catches up with her girlfriends down the road. We go to the same cafe and order the same thing - long black and a cheese scone....
London — This is the view out of my office window on weekdays. You can just see the top of St Pancras Station on the right (well, St. Pancras Renaissance London Hotel as that part is now). Shame about the bui...
Brentwood — Warning actually… I snapped many photos on the run today, thinking I would share them with my new toy Hi. But the photos were mostly of infrastructure — all of the man made, maintained elements f...
Brentwood — As beautiful and serene as the arboretum can be…
Brentwood — When I moved here, I thought I was moving to a small town similar to the one in which I grew up. But I realized there are many differences. One is swimming pools. My town had a number of public swi...
Brentwood — The run took me to the entrance of Deerwood Arboretum: Off of the street, a path between two houses, across a bridge that is slippery when wet (today), along the grassy expanse of a huge house, across...
Brentwood — I job through our neighborhood/subdivision frequently to the arboretum. Zoning is for 1 acre plus lots, so there is grass everywhere. When I first moved in, I had the grand idea of covering the entir...
New york — When community parks are neglected engaged residents are willing to meet in cool of the evening to build demand for their simple cause. Safe parks, useful parks, open parks, maintained parks, free par...
Paris — Residents only says the sign, which ones? the hunchback, God’s representatives or and envoy from the dark side?
Saskatoon — I see a gastroenterologist once a year which in a good year usually consists of questions about my bowel movements, poking and prodding my belly, and making sure I’m taking my colitis medication. This...
Boulder — I’m just playing with Hi and it’s all about the waves we create, right? Let’s create Tidal waves! :)
Brentwood — The entire family is together. Each person chose their own healthy breakfast — hot or cold cereal. Coffee - two different types (drip and press), green tea. Two MacBooks, an iPad, and an HTC smart...
Berlin — There are always a few things that make a place feel like home. One is knowing where you’re going and recognizing the streets. The next is recognizing the subway, and being able to find your way aroun...
Moscow — Heeeeey
Brentwood — Early morning in the ‘burbs. Coffee, computer, silence. Light has not yet pierced the skies. Dogs are fed. Rest of family still asleep — oops, thud of some large foot hitting the floor above. Livi...
Atsugi — Somewhere on route 246 towards Tokyo between Atsugi and Machida this unassuming Red Lobster restaurant was both a savior and running gag between friends. Some snow was falling on the Tomei highway on...
Phan thiet — I just finished my vacation in Vietnam. My first stop was a beautiful beach, Muine. I was trying to forget everything about my common life in that afternoon, such as work, family, friends. Making my b...
Melbourne — Nothing profound happening here. Just the simple pleasure of receiving an unsolicited compliment from a stranger. Well, let’s be realistic here — the compliment was rather directed at my eyewear and n...
New york — We usually walk fast in this part of the World. I have a fast pace, but I have curious eyes. I observe and remember the people that pass me by. I know the ones who live on the streets, and the ones wh...
Seoul — destination: uptown
Portland — hoodlums, hooligans hackers derp on der boxen build shit, bill hours.
Tokyo — Relax
Paris — Quand il n’est de lendemain Que l’autre identique à celui qui fût Constante encombrante, invariable étouffante Réduire au même celle là qui aurait dû A jamais effacer toute trace d’une redondance Meur...
Cape town — It’s not that I didn’t always have a strong connection with my eldest daughter. It’s just that recently, as she’s running headlong into her fifth year of life, we’ve started to connect in ways I didn’...
Tokyo — Three weeks since i got into a hitting-backspace-spree and no sign of improvement. This draft is full of dead start and looks like a dump of words with no meaning if you read them one after another. I...
Tokyo — When you charge 730¥ for 6 eggs you better have a good story to justify the price of free range chickens compared to their caged counterparts. Unfortunately I can only guess what’s written in Japanese...
Tokyo — Tennoz Isle is a small man-made island on the bay near central Tokyo. It used to be all industrial, with a large real estate corporation (Terada Warehouse) as the majority land owner. Terada has signi...
Berlin — Hello Dear Subscribers (DS). You may have received a Lorem Ipsum message from me earlier. Apologies. Apologies. This is what happens, DS, when you are demoing a product and forget that things are li...
Washington — My sister and I walked home from a Library of Congress lecture on F. Holland Day. The Jefferson and Adams Buildings stacked in a departing row. Concrete met green met stone met sky. The clouds flex...
Atsugi — at what looks to be an abandoned apartment building. Maybe a remnant of the boom years and the subsequent real estate collapse or a dodgy contractor who ran off before finishing the job.
Tokyo — exhibit at the Tokyo Big Sight interior lifestyle show