Complied on 06.01.2011
3.10
Flashing lights of the zebra crossing
Reflected trees in the puddles
A dropped sweet
Ripped up poster
Autumn leaves
Moss on Magdalen Bridge
The bare trees and the tower
Mistletoe
Playing fields
A man on his phone
Hazard lights
Headphones
Purple coat
Ivy crawling on the bridge
The walls of the Botanic Gardens
The constant sound of traffic
Woolly hats
Signposts
Unlit Christmas decorations
Alcohol Free Zone
A man walks out a gate
Gargoyles
Fat man
A man crosses the road
Squashed berries
A pigeon bounces on a branch
Rose Lane
Work away paintwork
Vague hint of sunshine
Bright green of the mass
Cirrus stratus
A sweet wrapper
Closed gates
A bird chirrups
One flies away – the sound of its wings
Autumn leaves and more sweet wrappers
Empty bike stands
large tree
My hands are cold
The last leaves cling to the branches
A door is closed somewhere
Muddy tyre tracks
Deadman’s Walk
A seagull
Christ Church Cathedral spire
Old stones
A plaque to James Sadler
Faded paint on the railings – blue beneath the black – metal beneath the blue
White lines on the grass
An empty can of beer
Corrugated plastic
Discarded plant label
The old stones of the wall
Repointed patches
The sound of my footsteps
The sound of a lawnmower
Billowing clouds from the power station
A man cross the field
Missing stones
There was a bench here once – I’ve seen the photograph
A large crane
Distant conversation all of a sudden
Painting lines on the grass
Dead flowers
Ornamental pine cones
Beautiful light blue of the sky
Merton college tower
The river once flowed here – you can still see the arches
A red van
Tourists take pictures
A man coughs
Brown oak leaves
Cathedral window
The sound of someone skipping
babbling conversations
The photograph of me, my Nan and my cousin
Footsteps behind me
A black iron gate
A beautiful lawn
Puffed up bird in the branches of a bare tree
New stone mixed with the old
The meadow
The tumulus
More woolly hats
Bright electric light
Saplings in cages
White van – men stand and chat
A man carried a blue bucket
My hands appear blue
Pot holes filled with water
Fire safety – rows of fire extinguishers
Two men shake hands
‘Will do’
Steps down
A man in a red hat reads an information board
Bare writhing branches
Padlocked gate
The still water of the Trill Mill stream
A toddler looks up at the sky
Tom Tower
Footsteps
A bicycle bell
Traffic
Luminous jackets of policewomen
I’m caught in a photograph
There’s the flash
New bins
Tom Tower
Empty wooden benches
Loud conversations
‘Slow Down’
Old cobbles
Vapour trails
Cobbled circles outside Christ Church
I remember the last time I did this here
The soft glow of a light inside St. Aldate’s church
More tourists
A man walks with his bicycle
‘No Entry’
Padlocked bikes
A young man with a Starbucks
Multicoloured walking stick
Dropped coffee cup
A man walks towards me eating; the very picture of concentration
A young woman working in an office
A meeting – two people in a window
Changing reflections as I walk
The old gentleman’s toilet
The rattle of a bicycle as it moves towards me
The sound of a plane overhead
The old Jewish Quarter
My reflection in the window
A girl walks past me and sniffs
The Bear
Small windows of a bygone age
A red elastic band
Inside the pub a man checks his phone – another out of sight coughs
Quiet conversation
A laugh
People working in the office
A large map on the wall
‘No parking in front of the gates’
A taxi
Blue shutters
Footsteps
Big yellow scarf
Faded graffiti
Oriel House – ornate carving above the door
Canterbury Gate
Tourists laugh
Oriel College
Metal fences
Merton Street
VR on the postbox
The bell begins to chime
I remember a drawing by Malchair of this street
A couple leave Corpus Christi
A bike with a basket leans against the wall
An empty skip
The hum of something electrical
A van starts its engine and pulls away
Large iron gate
Wet footsteps of a man walking his dog
Magpie Lane – I think of singing
Water drips from a gutter
Statue
Stains on a wall
Barbed wire
Seagulls – the sound of a seaside holiday
The light fades
A car blasts its horn
A conversation
Ancient walls – what have they heard?
The view through a beautiful window
‘Victory…’
Ancient houses
A chef stands outside the door – takes off his hat and puts it back on again
1588
Bricks where there used to be a cashpoint
St. Mary the Virgin Church
The statue – its head shot off in the Civil War
Nice clothes
Old prints
Bright lurid lights of the insurance office
Times to the next buses
‘Sale’
A young man with a suitcase checks his phone
A queue at the bus stop
An old couple have a coffee in the Mitre
Turl Street
A man in a green overcoat
Old faces
Red face
People reading in a cafe
My little finger is numb
GR on a postbox
The sound of a lorry reversing
A half-cleaned wall – half still dirty
Washed off graffiti
‘See you in the morning…’
I didn’t catch his name
‘The bounty of the rich steal from the poor’
A man drops something
‘Keep going…’
Radcliffe Square
Bells chime the hour – 4 o’clock
A man with a beard opens a gate to let the cars through
All Souls library visible through the window
An open window
Bikes chained to railings
A man dressed in tweed
Tourists take pictures in the courtyard of the Bodleian
The portrait of a cardinal looks out through a window
Old red phone box
The empty glow of a light in a window
A man walks towards me and breathes out smoke
I can still smell it as I write
Traffic lights change to red
I remember the boy in the road
Shelves full of box files
A man runs past me carrying weights
A meeting in progress around a table
The Emperor’s Heads
‘Let’s go this way…’ they cross the road
Cold faces, drawn and watery
More box files
Posters flap in the breeze along with a lost silk scarf hung on a board
Lights on the Christmas tree
Boarded up – To Let
Much darker even though the sky is still light
The rustle of bags
The drone of an aeroplane
Fairy lights
Feeling hungry
The second hand clothes shop
St. Michael at the Northgate
You can see where houses once abutted the tower
Angry faces
Another abandoned coffee cup
Hairdressers
Oxford Union
A door opens – ‘hello’
Dog shit and footprints
People passing across the street in front of me
Strange looking woman
A man and a woman smoke in a doorway
Darker by the second
A skip full of bricks
Old arches
Patches of paint hiding graffiti
A busy shoe shop
A man carries a box out of Argos
Old memorial
Ugly building
Light – too bright in a jewellers
The hot air of a vent
MAO
‘This van is full of Gays’
‘Collect by car’
A crest on a house
The last light in a window
‘Alright, um, ok, well…’
Grandfather clock through a window
I can hardly write now
Steamed up windows of the cafe
A man reads a graphic novel
4.20
Old fashioned street sign
A man cycles no handed talking to himself or on a phone
The old city wall
The sound of a bird in the trees, flapping wings
It seems much darker here
The flashing front light of a bicycle
Blocked up archway
The sound – to my left of crockery
Scaffolding
Demolition
Piles of memories
Iron girders
A view of house I’ve never seen before
‘Footpath closed’
More demolition
‘You can do that in your fucking sleep…’
Drunk man staggers past
Sirens
The dripping of water
The sound of pigeons
Small windows of old houses
Mounting step for climbing on a horse
17th century house
A single wheel – bent – chained to a bike stand
A girl looks out the window the returns to her conversation