title An Apple-Picking Heatwave, and Other Stories, London and Brome, Suffolk - 2nd October 2011 intro This set starts off with part of the ongoing attempt to document the ever-changing face of urban decay that is the trackside, near Liverpool Street Station, whilst on the way to work. There's also a favourite in confusing language on a train safety sign, about how in an emergency to leave a carriage on the other side away from other railway lines, with no hint on how long you should go around in circles before just bailing out. Then, Philly and Davida come to visit on what turns out to be a record-breaking weekend, which gets to nearly 30° for an October day. There's a fine misty morning before the heat turns on, whereupon Isobel decides that it's paella time - a suitable posse arrive and help out with the annual apple picking harvest, before it's time to eat. dscf2491 Colourful CES tag above a brown wall dscf2493 An impossible view out of the train window dscf2494 The London Olympics site under construction dscf2496 More conventional trackside graffiti dscf2499 Railway lines and "death" graffiti dscf2502 Another look at a clothes-peg and "Astro" tag dscf2504 The River Thames, from Southwark Bridge dscf2505 A River Taxi does its thing dscf2512 The confusing emergency sign on the train dscf2520 Boris - Stripey Cat - sticks his legs out dscf2523 We go for a beer over at The Swan dscf2525 Davida, Philly, Fred and Isobel at The Swan dscf2527 Philly holds Nosher's bike up imag0126 A camera-phone view from the meeting room at work imag0129 Fred roams around with a stick imag0130 The Hairy Cow outside Fred's nursery in Stuston imag0131 The somewhat bleakly-named cow "Beef Burger" imgp5367 Hundreds of glistening cobwebs imgp5374 A dewey spider web imgp5375 Philly roams around in the garden imgp5376 Millie the Mooch mooches about imgp5379 Another spider web imgp5380 Philly takes a photo of the spider webs imgp5381 A perfect web imgp5384 Philly, Isobel and Fred at the sausage van imgp5385 We eat our sausages by the Mere imgp5390 Diss Park over the Mere imgp5394 Davida holds Fred up imgp5397 Wavy and Oak pick apples imgp5399 Mikey P picks some apples imgp5401 Clare helps out imgp5402 Thomas gets in to a box imgp5404 Clare and Gemma pick pack apples imgp5409 Mikey P in amongst the trees imgp5411 Oak, Elizabeth and Fred on the slide imgp5412 Philly roams around imgp5420 Wavy holds a bucket as Mike's up a ladder imgp5423 Isobel fires up the Paellera imgp5424 Everyone crowds around for food imgp5429 Fred looks around imgp5430 The remains of the paella imgp5431 Isobel eats paella imgp5439 The party is still going on into the evening