Kiran and Jude in the cafe at Wimereux

Xuan and Kiran in Istanbul

I recently planned to go to Istanbul with Kiran and Xuan (best friends) but the Icelandic volcano put paid to that holiday, grrrr.

Here is one of the pictures Kiran took of Xuan buying an ice-cream. Look how happy everyone looks!

Meanwhile, I think I was at work, shotlisting. More grrrrrrrrr.

Artiste with ball

While out and about on the Embankment the other afternoon, Kiran and I saw this elegant, beautiful and talented woman doing amazingly technical feats with a pure crystal ball. The sunlight caught its path as she spun and rolled it over her body, floated it off her palms and fingers so it vibrated in the air, like a goddess with a new planet.

Kiran took the picture.

Posing by the Thames

A very silly afternoon indeed spent posing on the Thames beach. Kiran and I had a lot of fun. In this picture I have just eaten an egg sandwich and a banana.

I love these big stripey deckchairs, they're really comfy.

Photoshoot down by the Thames

Just spent a half sunny half cloudy afternoon with the lovely and enchanting Kiran Groodoyal down by the Thames taking pictures. I posed about in black corset and velvet skirt, hair in loopy plaits wearing a bowler in a deckchair, on a bridge, on the Thames beach, by the fish lamp-posts at the Embankment. A few people took pictures of us taking pictures!

We stared at a couple lost in each other kissing and kissing and kissing and kissing ... how romantic.

Pictures of pseudo-Victorian romping available soon ...