Ambling Around South London

Words and pictures. Lots of birds.

London, near the Millennium Bridge, September 2025

Me

I take pictures, I tell stories.

I bumble around (usually) south London and go hunting nature and cafes. Sometimes I then write about it.

This is where I put things.

That photo was taken in July 2020, in the middle of the plague. I stuck it on Facebook, with the caption ‘the dystopia will be fabulous’. Might be the last time I took a selfie or used Facebook. It’s a good sentiment to go out on.

Words

Cassandra

My name is Cassandra, and you probably don’t believe that either.

Apollo cursed me to know the future but always be thought a liar. I predicted the fall of my city, and my own murder. I was laughed at.

As I died, my soul walked to Olympus, where I found Apollo sitting on his golden chariot.

“You will be forgotten,” I said. “Your believers will dwindle, your powers will fade, and you will be nothing but a voice on the wind. People will sell trinkets where your temples once stood.”

He laughed at me, too. “That will never happen.”

Heh.