For The Last couple of days or so we have had snow

Sledging, Mousehold Heath, Norwich 29th December, 2005_85, originally uploaded by Colonel Blink.

The Wild Wood

Welcome to the Millenium Forum No.1, originally uploaded by Colonel Blink.

Multi-story carparks are the new frontier between civilisation and chaos.

Consider: If one had to write anew the story of Little Red Riding Hood you would no longer have her journeying to her grandmother's house through the forest because a car park at night would suffice far better to represent the jeopardy that innocence has to travel through.

When the new Robin Hood gathers together his merry men they will no longer meet in the Greenwood to steal from the passing rich; for one thing the Sherrif of Nottingham's car travels too fast along the Sherwood Forest Bypass. Robin's band of the socially excluded will live and meet and feast in our Car Parks.

You do not believe me or think I exagerate? Already at night these car parks have become the residences of rough sleepers. Their public toilets flicker under a strange Ultra-Violet light as the authorities vainly attempt to prevent addicts from finding a vein. At any time of the day you will see men in puffa jackets swapping goods from one car boot to another.

This is the new wild wood. It is eleven at night and you have just come out of the cinema. Your footsteps echo as you walk through the car park. You eye uneasily the lads in hoodies on the stairs, and the rough sleeper hunkered down for the night. In another corner a party of drinkers are passing a bottle around while a light flickers above them. Your ears strain to hear if any footsteps are following you. Red Riding Hood you are on your own.

Its boxing day evening and its snowing

Winter Night Scene2: From My Bedroom Window, originally uploaded by Colonel Blink.

Not the nice deep and crisp and even kind of snow but a mean icy sprinkling that cannot decide if it is hail or snow or sleet.

Christmas Booty

Christmas Booty, originally uploaded by Colonel Blink.

Rendezvous with an unknown photographer

Unknown Photographer, Riverside Road, Norwich, originally uploaded by Colonel Blink.

I noticed him first striding purposefully over Bishop's Bridge with two cameras round his neck and a whole bag of accessories. I photographed him from inside my car and despite smiling and waving got hardly a flicker from him. No flicker then but does he flickr? He strode past me and I last saw him photographing Pulls Ferry.

Christmas Big Issue Seller

Christmas Big Issue Seller, originally uploaded by Colonel Blink.