Low clouds/ mist over Brighton & Hove sea front with the i360 disappearing into a cloud
A seagull walking purposefully along a pavement looking for chips
Profile of a lovely ginger cat.
The golden angel statue “Goldese” (Siegessäule) in the Tiergarten in Berlin
I miss doing #Oldstagram posts so will start a new photo thread: #OnThisDay.
23 July
Brighton, Berlin
Morning sun reflects off the grubby white fascia of a three storey garage or workshop which looks as if it has a stable somewhere in its ancestry.
View across some back gardens of a tower crane rearing against the blue sky, behind which West Hill and Hastings Castle can be seen
View from up on West Hill of some of the terraced houses in central Hastings. My house is in this picture.
Dusk / sunset sky behind a silhouette of the ruin of Hastings Castle. A chink of sun is just about visible where the castle wall meets the ground.
#Oldstagram
January 2025.
Hastings
And that's it - this is where I stopped using Insta. Now I need to find some other excuse for posting photos.
Predawn glow over West Hill which is largely silhouetted with That Tree at the centre
Copies of my novel Comeback and promotional postcards on sale at indoor market at 1200 Postcards bar on Queen's Road.
Seagull still with chick plumage on their head and neck standing on a ledge in front of the morning sky and townscape.
Blindingly white low sun low in a blue sky scattered with grey clouds reflected in the sea which is breaking in waves onto the shingle beach.
#Oldstagram
December 2024.
Hastings
View down onto the Old Town and the sea from near the top of West Hill. An alleyway leads down past a traditional house in the foreground. The sky is clear blue, some salmony clouds gathered near the horizon.
Four portable traffic lights stand on the pavement outside a house, looking for all the world as if they're waiting for a bus or waiting to cross the road.
A Give Way sign in the foreground against a view of Pissaros Bar and beyond it West Hill. This view no longer exists as they built a bloody great Premiere Inn there between then and now.
Crane against a clear blue sky with the sun at the apex of its boom. The houses of central Hastings and the castle rise behind it. White clouds rest on the horizon like the view of a new temporary continent.
#Oldstagram
November 2024.
Hastings
Orange sun setting behind scattered clouds reflected shimmeringly in the glassy sea. Buildings in the foreground are in silhouette.
The front of disused tube station Down Street. Classic oxblood tiled, semicircular first floor window Leslie Green design.
A tower crane silhouetted against a sunset sky with ragged dirty cotton wool strips of cloud obscuring the best bits.
Electric arclight sun above the sea viewed from between two white and blue striped beach huts
#Oldstagram
November 2024.
Hastings, London
House with a wooden side and brick base in an unpaved road of grass and gravel, under a sky so blue you could cut yourself on it. The wall next to the house has a white towel draped over it.
Path leading down between two patches of grass towards some houses and trees silhouetted against the sea which has a glittery sun reflection on it.
The seafront at night - pier lights reflected in the water, faint sunset glow still clinging to the horizon under a more or less black sky. This is probably the night I saw the comet (through my binoculars).
Unusual selfie of me with no purple on. Hat and jacket are black. Usual glasses and headphones combo.
#Oldstagram
October 2024.
Hastings
Pebble's eye view of sunset on Hastings beach as sun sinks behind the silhouetted wooden uprights of the outflow.
Orange, yellow and brown sunset behind the Eastbourne headland with a peculiar cloud doppelganger floating above the land as if the sunset has revealed an alternative dimension. View from West Hill, Hastings.
Sunrise behind West Hill, Hastings, sun about to make its presence known, rays already creeping between the house and That Tree.
Huge splayed grey cloud intrudes on a clear blue sky above the row of houses on West Hill, Hastings
#Oldstagram
October 2024.
Hastings
Red and blue post-sunset skies over the bus stops outside Hastings Station
Close up of loads of rusty (and some not so rusty) padlocks attached to each other. In the background can be seen the out of focus beach, sea and sky.
Painted concrete wall on the seafront, in the background can be seen the brightly coloured huts and bunting of Goat Ledge. Sky above is blue marbled with wispy clouds.
View over the top of some house roofs of the sea underneath a blue sky sprinkled with broken clouds.
#Oldstagram
September 2024.
Hastings
Seagull (herring gull for the "no such thing as a seagull'-splainers) on a ledge in front of a backdrop of houses and houses and houses.
Stage in a theatre set up for an audio recording with six microphones along the front. At the back of the stage is a TARDIS (police box) the set of the TARDIS interior and a dalek. You get the impression it's going to be a Doctor Who play as indeed it was.
Selfie of me taken from under my chin with one of the lions from Trafalgar Square looking over my shoulder and Nelson's Column rising behind that.
Two sides of a five-sided white-painted wooden lighthouse on West Hill, Hastings with the sea and sky in the background.
#Oldstagram
September 2024.
Hastings, London
View down Bottle Alley in Hastings during the art market - stalls set up on rear wall, bunting overhead, people looking at the stalls.
Narrow alleyway that disappears underneath part of an old fashioned wooden frame house
Very narrow winding street with pure blue sky above
Selfie of me in usual purple garb, glasses, headphones etc. These are all getting a bit samey I need to up my game.
#Oldstagram
August 2024.
Hastings
Sun rising over the beach at Hastings at low tide - there's a strip of sand showing with the part nearest the shingle covered in shallow water while the bit nearest the sea is raised in tiny damp dunes.
The underside of Hastings pier (all girders and struts) close up on one of the concrete supports covered with green seaweed.
Two seagull footprints in the wet sand with one drop of seagull shit showing what it did while it was there.
Seagull chick sitting loafed on the flat sand, whilst behind it some older seagulls mill about a bit. Behind them the shingle beach rises, obscuring all but the tops of the buildings and the hills on land.
#Oldstagram
August 2024.
Hastings.
Low tide.
The curve of cloud matches the curve of the hilside untill they meet at the right hand side of the picture like one of the cusps of the mandelbrot set. Sky above blue, buildings below many including one with a huge mural of the head and shoulders of a woman emerging from the sea
A tube train at Archway station platform. The perspective lines of the platform edges, train roof, tiles, seats and lights along the roof all meet at the tunnel.
Old red brick three storey building that looks like a stable or workshop. It's labelled "Samson Est 1929 Building Restoration" There is a set of double doors in the attic, presumably where a hoist is attached.
Stone steps between stone walls leading downwards to a stone archway through which can be seen the paving stones. it's all stone aside from the ironwork handrails.
#Oldstagram
July 2024.
Hastings, London
Pyramidal tomb in a country graveyard in Brightling, Sussex.
Ornate red gravestone reading "Non omnis moriar"
selfie of me on a train in standard purple hat jacket combo, mask disengaged, glasses slightly dark, hair that can be seen is bright yellow
The statue of Dick Whittington's cat in Highgate, London. It is surrounded by railings and looks very smooth after centuries of people petting it.
#Oldstagram
July 2024.
Brightling, Hastings, London
Telecomms cabinet with street art of a realistic eye painted on it across the road from the gothic arch entrance of Hastings Town Hall
Very flamboyant Euproctis chrysorrhoea moth resting on a wooden surface
Four pigeons resting in front of a window and on top of an old sign on the front of a building that reads "Market"
Very narrow alleyway between two buildings which just seems to disappear into an irrational space as there appears to be no "up" in there - buildings, streetlamps and foliage fill all the visible space. There is no sky.
#Oldstagram
July 2024.
Hastings
Roofed brick alleyway with a painted road name sign reading "Waterloo Passage"
The ramp down to the platforms at Lewes underneath the canopy. Ahead can be seen the junction where the trains coming in from the east split into the two sets of lines for platforms 1 & 2 and platforms 3 & 4.
A huge fake bull head on the wall of a pub looking wearily at the camera.
Jackdaw walking purposefully along the tarmac next to a drain cover. They know where they're going and are in a hurry.
#Oldstagram
June 2024.
Hastings, Lewes, Uckfield
Seagull standing on a table outside a cafe looking wistfully into the window at people eating chips inside
Hastings beach. Behind the railings are the pebbles and behind them a mist has rolled in so the sea's disappeared. There's still a blue sky above though.
Huge model crab on top of a building, between and in front of other buildings.
Mirrored window of a coffee shop "Serving more than just coffee - open for all" Reflected in the window below the large hand icon / decal is me.
#Oldstagram
June 2024.
Hastings
Person dressed as a giant seagull at the Jack-in-the-Green parade on West Hill, Hastings. Everyone watching has umbrellas or hoods up.
Strange green post – possibly a Victorian vent for the sewers – next to a fence and underneath some trees.
The red brick curve of the underside of a viaduct with a street curving away and up visible beyond it. One side has terraced houses, the other trees in green and red. And some parked cars.
Selfie of me in purple hat and jacket wearing glasses on face and headphones around neck on the platform of Hastings station.
#Oldstagram
May 2024.
Hastings
Reverse of ironwork name sign for South Kensington tube station reading "Metropolitan and District Railways". Through it can be seen the front of a shop named "Five Guys"
A swan sitting on the tarmac bank of the Serpentine looking out over the water
Purple and pink Aurora Borealis over West Hill, Hastings. At this time of year. At this time of day. In this part of the country.
A tall crane hoisting a huge concrete slab against pure blue sky.
#Oldstagram
May 2024.
London, Hastings
Looking up at a model of a goat on the corner of a pink painted wooden building with "Goat" written on it in large friendly letters. The sky is mixed blue and cloudy. This is Goat Ledge.
View from Hastings station along railway tracks which disappear under a bridge and into a tunnel surrounded by greenery. You can just about see the light at the end of the tunnel which is St Leopard's Warrior Square station.
In a park a brook / stream in a deep trench disappears into (or emerges from?) a small round tunnel. Everything else is plants.
Side selfie of me wearing hat, glasses, headphones and jacket standing on a wooden structure with the sparkling sea in the background.
#Oldstagram
April 2024.
Hastings
The part of Hastings castle ruins that looks like a giant cat peering over the walls
Part of a miniature railway in a wood. One track disappears into a tunnel, the other disappears off through the trees.
Gliding gulls, shingle beach and rugged cliff under a cloud and blue sky looking east from Hastings.
A gull and a ginger cat sit on a garden wall pointedly ignoring each other.
#Oldstagram
April 2024.
Hastings
Huge deep blue sky shot through with clouds above tiny Hastings with the castle ruins in the centre.
Island in the middle of boating lake with swan headed boats all parked on it covered with blue tarpaulins.
Enormous street art painting of a huge hyper realistic eye in front of a red white and blue target shape entirely taking up the side of a building.
Selfie of me in black cap, glasses and purple jacket.
#Oldstagram
March 2024.
Hastings
East Hill Hastings under a blue sky, viewed from the footpath on the beach. The tracks of the miniature railway can be seen to the left of the footpath.
A rusty anchor stands on the shingle in front of tall black wooden fishermen's huts under a blue sky.
Two seagulls loafing in the sun on top of a wall
The various oddly shaped skyscrapers of the City of London viewed from a train near London Bridge station.
#Oldstagram
March 2024.
Hastings, London
The pale blue sunrise - sun behind cloud mountain range behind West Hill, behind houses and houses and houses.
Moose (guitar) and Miki (guitar and vocals) playing a gig as Miki Berenyi Trio in front of a rainbow punky projected background.
Pigeons line up on the edge of a small block of flats looking down on the road. Are they about to swoop down on me?
Seagull (Herring Gull) with remnants of chick plumage on their head stands on the sun on a ledge with Hastings West Hill as a backdrop. I remember when my ledge was that clean. Before the seagulls shat all over it.
#Oldstagram
February 2024.
Hastings, Brighton
Stone steps and iron railings lead up through a short passageway towards some buildings
Seven hagstones
The derelict Brighton Hippodrome
The houses on the side of West Hill Hastings in the fog. A car's headlights can be seen descending the invisible road.
#Oldstagram
February 2024.
Hastings, Brighton
Tudor style wood frame and white plaster house in a residential street at night with two modern cars parked outside it.
The cliff atop which rest the ruins of Hastings Castle looms over the modern council offices on the sea front below.
Green and rust cubular clock on a lamp-post-like column against a blue sky in which flies a solitary gull. Its half past two.
The ocean liner shaped block of Marine Court looms over the smaller Victorian houses around a pedestrianised courtyard in which there are a number of plants and small trees.
#Oldstagram
January 2024.
Hastings
Black cat loping out of a yard through an open wooden gate looking as if they know exactly what they're doing and where they're going.
Silhouette of the head of a telegraph pole and a chimney with attached aerials against a grey sky
Selfie of me in a white tiled tunnel. I have hat, headphones, glasses and a scarf hiding me. Behind me outside the tunnel can be seen ranks of houses rising up a hill.
Tiny ginger kitten with a huge fluffy tail caught in the act of washing, left rear leg behind left ear.
#Oldstagram
January 2024.
Hastings
St Mary-in-the-Castle church built in front of the cliff face below the castle in central Hastings. The church has an Ionic portico with four visible pillars. The cliff face looms over the roof.
Silhouette of a magpie on an aerial and a seagull on a chimney against a peach sky at dawn.
Huge cumulonimbus cloud looking like a giant rabbit made out of cauliflower looms over the tiny town of Hastings.
Selfie of me with regular head armour of purple hat, glasses, purple neck warmer, and headphones. A lock of purple hair emerges from under the hat. I'm wearing my faux leather jacket with spikes on it.
#Oldstagram
December 2023.
Hastings
A constellation of lights glare through the fog at night behind the silhouettes of the roofs of a row of terraced houses
An Egyptian goose on some grass by a lake. In Hastings.
Impressive waves crashing furiously onto a shingle beach under a cloud-streaked deep blue sky with a continent of clouds waiting on the horizon.
Selfie of me in a fake fur Russian style hat, District line moquette pattern scarf, glasses and faux leather jacket with spikes on it.
#Oldstagram
December 2023.
Hastings
View of Central Hastings, including the station, from up on West Hill. I can see my house from here.
Ruins of Hastings Castle against a pure blue sky, the stone walls lit up yellow by the setting sun
Benches, posts and a van against a blue cloud strewn sky perfectlt reflected in a puddle
Yellow sunset illuminates the underside of a grey cloud ceiling above a silhouetted Hastings
#Oldstagram
November 2023.
Hastings
View up at a telegraph pole against a blue sky spraying its wires in all directions.
The struts and girders on the underside of Hastings Pier with churning water below.
closeup of a small tortoiseshell butterfly against an old wooden window frame
Curving branches of an evergreen tree against the blue sky
#Oldstagram
November 2023.
Hastings
