Hatroulette

Since Chatroulette is a such a hot topic, I thought I'd have a butchers. I don't have a webcam, so most folks don't give me more than a split second glimpse.

I noticed quite a few of these glimpses showed lots of hat-wearers. I thought I'd capture a few of them, in what I call Hatroulette.

Each image is a screen grab I made any time a hat-wearer popped up. It took a lot less time than you might imagine.

Cats

Many student houses are prime targets for local cats, after some TLC and whatever else they can get their paws on. With the exception of a soft-coated ginger kitten that used to visit me in my first house, I have photographed the more significant feline friends I have made since in Bournemouth. I've never been all that fussed about cats, but some of the following have changed my mind somewhat.

From left to right: Porsche, Leroy, Cliché, Fatcat, Admiral and queen of them all, Sillie.

Castlepoint

I've had a long/short affair with the Castlepoint Shopping Park, since living so near it. I'd heard about its car park collapse before really caring where it was, when back in Surrey.

I have been going there pretty much since I moved to Dorset. I've photographed it numerous times over the past few years with varying agenda.

The more I've grown to like it, the more I have tried to convince friends of its charm; some of whom have nearly reached a point not too far from my own.

One of those friends has also (I think, I hope) begun to rely slightly on its existence; a friend who I have shared so much time there with, good times and bad, both happy and sad. This friend is my exact ethnicity twin; our ethnic pie charts are identical.

She's living in Italy (our one-quarter home-country) for the time being, oiling the cogs with blood-thick espresso.

These pics (and a few more besides) are for her. They are a short series of camera phone images I took on a trip to Castlepoint