Orbital Manga. Monday 28th Feb. 1.40pm

Odd exhibition, or wall displays, or whatever you want to call it, in this comics bookshop near Leicester Square.

Cold, cold weather. I didn't walk far. Bought Cornflakes for Edie since she'd been asking me to buy her a new packet since last week.

Reading Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner so looked for others by him in Waterstones.

Playing Brothers by Black Keys.


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St Margaret's Bay, Kent. Sun 27th Feb. 11.35am.

A cave in the chalk cliffs being carefully inspected by Linus and Edie.

Sunny warm weather so different from fog and rain of yesterday. This bay is incredible and the home of Noel Coward and Ian Fleming. I even spoke to the current owner of Fleming's White house which is right on the beach looking straight out to sea. Wonder whether Fleming too watched the Dover-Calais ferries as we did.



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Deal beach. Sat 26th Feb.

Crab shell sculpture.

You should have seen the bag of pebbles collected by the kids. And guess who had to lug them around all day!

My fault though. Edie kept picking the same kind. I showed her how to look for unusual colours or patterns or shapes. She then kept picking them up saying "daddy is this an UNUSUAL one?"

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Dover Castle. Fri 25th Feb.

Dover Castle. Not that you'd know. Hardly saw a thing for the fog, though there was a...




king.

King Henry II in fact. And the kids learnt knight skills, too. Fab!

Weekend at Grannie and Gramps' new home in Deal.


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Rose and Crown, E17. Thurs 24th Feb, 8.45am.

Poster for Dave Bryant's first poetry gig in his own 'burb. And with Mimi Khalvati, an old friend of my aunt Celia.

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Cake Sale. Mon 20th Feb.

Baked by Licensing Dept Cake Club, all for benefit of two charities: Essex Deaf Children and Teenage Cancer Trust. We make over £300, which Pearson matches. (mine are the choc brownies in the front)

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New Forest. Sat 19th Feb.

Linus and Edie in New Forest with George, Christopher, and William. And Grandad and Nana Rosie!

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New York hotel bathroom. Tues 15th Feb.

Last look before catching the red eye back home.

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New York Toy Fair. Monday 14th Feb

Lightning McQueen made from 325,000 LEGO bricks. Yes, I'm at Toy Fair. A gigantic conference centre full of plastic tat. And no kids.

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Soho Grand Hotel, NYC. Sun 13th Feb, 10.30pm

View from my hotel window. Some street in Chelsea.


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Buxted Park Hotel, East Sussex. Wednesday 9th Feb, 10 am.

Sales Conference began with stormtroopers from the 501st assembling, with our deputy CEO dressed as Darth Vader. God help us.

Edie's iphone colouring. Tues 8th Feb.

No walking today. Too manic at work getting ready for conference tomorrow.

Instead, here's two "colouring ins" that Edie did on an iphone app. I like them. The bird is my desktop background now.

Royal Air Force Monument, Embankment. Mon 7th Feb. 1.45pm

All shiny again. Or was it falling down?

The RAF Memorial was built in 1923 to commemorate airmen who lost their lives during World War I.

It was a location in Doctor Who!

Our house. Sun 6th Feb. 12.20pm

On way to Uncle Tim and Auntie Alison's for lunch.

Hollow Pond, E11. Sat 5th Feb. 2.50pm

Linus at Narnia film with Katie at Barbican. Edie and I had a birthday party for Daddy Monkey, then a walk round Hollow Pond. Grey weather, threatening rain. Edie in boot slooking for muddy puddles. A lady with 5 or 6 bags of white sliced bread for the ducks and swans (and pigeons).

I tried to photograph the "ordinariness" of the landscape here: not beautiful, but not unnatural either. Not unpleasant, but not remotely interesting or exciting either. Not particularly well looked after, but not noticeably so.

Trafalgar Square. Wed 2nd Feb. 1.20pm

A tribute to Gilbert and George, who I saw in conversation with the director of the White Cube last night, at the Shaw Theatre, Euston. They were awesome: very funny, but also inspiring and positive, and totally unique. They have just completed their 30 year cycle of postcard art, where they bought 13 examples of every postcard design they could find with a union jack on it. Then they turned them into art pieces. They also discussed the theme of their next series but one: vultures. You heard it here first!

Graffiti on the Strand. Tues 1st Feb. 1.30pm

Doesn't quite make sense, but I know what they're trying to say.

Art Deco sculpture on the New Adelphi Building. Monday 31st Jan, 1.30pm.

Adelphi is a district of London, in between the Strand and the river. I never knew this. It is named after the Adelphi Buildings, a block of 24 unified neoclassical terrace houses. They were demolished in the 1930s, and replaced with the huge art deco New Adelphi Building.

The reason I went her was that you can see it from a meeting room window in my building and I always used to look out and wonder where the street was. So today I went and found it. It's kind of hidden away, and it's a great little secret maze of streets.