This is the Southern Service

…there on the edge of the flat stretching roof
Stood a magpie, a gull and a pigeon
Neatly spaced –
The cast from some terrible joke.

word gnats

Dream dapples, Pied-beams and Tantalights

As the beam touches you, it has a near instant effect, quickly drawing your thoughts out through the window and filling you with a desire to be out there, on the other side of the glass, walking in the sunlight, exploring the city streets, or escaping over the horizon, (I like to think of this particular effect as a positive variety of Corpse-light or Willow-the-wisp, but without the danger of being drawn into some terrible dark and boggy end).

Where Horse horse meets Iron horse – The Farm between the tracks

Alongside and beneath its hundreds of miles of railway tracks and arches, there exists another London.

A London of inner city edgelands – liminal spaces that create internal thresholds within the metropolis – including, in North London, a working farm.

Along the not so old straight track

Between the back gardens and traffic jammed streets of North London runs an extraordinary green path: Parkland Walk, once a rail line to the suburbs, now a tree-lined escape from the city, in the middle of a city.