Drawing from an uncomfortable position

With magisterial slowness I reverse into an empty stationary car, stopping when I hear the splintering of its number plate. This prepare...

To the people who found my blog after googling 'notting hill carnival 2011 peeing' - welcome. Out on Portobello I find Kilimanjaro...

I collect a car bootful of cake from Greggs in Portobello Road.  During the looting a Greggs driver was assaulted and some of their shops we...

An expensively dressed American blonde gazes at the inhospitable residential streets and whines: 'Why did they choose here?' Becau...

Thudding, blue barbecue smoke, whistles, a helicopter. Amplification that travels up the sternum. I wander around with Karen, my house gue...

Unusually early vomit outside McDonald's. Unrhythmic electric drills as shops board up. Stacks of crush barriers. Portaloos. Tourists at...

I leave the Westway to seek another open-air population supervised by a semi-benevolent uniformed force, with occasional spats and cultural...