Filed under: London, Travel Diary | Tags: Brick Lane, East London, Old Truman Brewery, Photo Essay
Narrative has never been my strong suit. A quick scroll down the page would show that many of my posts are entitled ‘Part One’. This implies that at some point there will be a Part Two (at the very least). But at the risk of disappointing I’ll have to say that there probably never will be. I am wonderful at starting things, not so good at finishing them.
As a youngster I used to write stories (sometimes of my own volition, other times because I was told to ‘find something constructive to do’) about topics that interested me. Inevitably these stories were fantasies that put me right in the middle of the action – envisaging myself as a prince, a sorcerer, a hero. However I could never make it to the end. By the time I’d set up the narrative and the characters I was bored of the idea and gave up. Every story I ever wrote ended ‘not with a bang but a whimper’.
So narrative has never been my strong suit. I’m good with language, just not good with structure.
But a blog should have a narrative. It should be a story. It should follow a sequence of events/ideas/concepts/personae so that as one reads through the entries one begins to get a picture of a whole person, a three-dimensional entity.
Well here is my attempt to remedy my narrative deficiencies: A PHOTO ESSAY!
These pictures will say more than words ever could!
N.B. On a technical note, these photos were all taken on my shiny new phone. The wonders of modern technology!
