Well stone the bloody crows, looks like I might be going to some kind of bike race or something. As much as I wouldn't like to jinx, it, I'm banking on the fact I won't have any visa issues trying to cross the border into Belgium. That being said, I could still get a lemon from the hire car place and end up staring in panic and confusion at a smoking engine somewhere near Dunkirk: every silver lining has a cloud, after all.
This last week has been both action and vomit-packed. I woke up bright and early on Monday morning at 3:45am to drive to Bristol, where I was assisting photographer Conor Masterson on a shoot for the Fire Service. Initially all went well, we witnessed the firefighter training, got to have a go in a hovercraft in Weston Supermare and even ate a roast beef dinner with the firefighters on nightwatch in Bristol Temple Meads firestation (they even got called out during the meal, of course it was abandon food, straight down the polls and into the fire engine. Not before the plates had been put in the oven to keep warm, though).
Then things went a bit tits up. After meeting up with my erstwhile university housemate Chris Hawkes for a curry, I was struck down with a rather nasty dose of food poisoning halfway through the 5-day shoot. Somehow I soldiered on (although there were a few instances of abandoning ship to go have a lie-down). If anyone wants to go for a curry in Bristol, please, for all that's good and holy, avoid this place I know it looks swanky and with reasonable prices, but trying saying that with a mouthful of puke and bumfull of evil. Not happening.
We have three projects on the go at the moment, Ghent-Wevelgem/Kemmelberg this weekend, the ongoing Pie and Mash project, and finally a shoot about a certain local bike shop which will feature in the soon-to-be-released Boneshaker online zine.
The last shot in the Pie and Mash series, taken at F.Cooke's in Broadway Market, Hackney
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