Here is a simple blog collecting images I've made of soft toys. A soft toybox, u could say, of sorts. Soft toys are strewn across the burning Earth; a BBC documentary on black gold recently* began by presenting a selection of such specimens declared 'Made of Oil'. Yes, they are (or might be). But, what do we attach to these imperfect objects? What beauty is bound up in their sad stitches? What affection must we save in the fight against global catastrophe? Beloved soft ghosts gather to vigil and dream. Praise be to my inspirations, Jane Hissey and Old Bear (www.janehissey.co.uk). Plz send photographs of soft-toy-models should they wish to sit for this sweet A3 assembly. Thank you, Good Luck. Gratitude to fairs.

some snaps



21/12/22 Silver owl tinsel tree & mirror/clock.


25/11/22 Beautiful braille, pale.


25/11/22 Different ways uut of Shrewsbury, playground.

25/11/22 A single port-hole Drummond St to HS2 wait ur turn.


22/12/21 Felixstowe xmas lights ('carnival'/'felicity').

23/12/22 Doom.

21/12/22 Shanklin LIFT ,, disguise bunker / cancelled Brutalism.

18/12/22 1990 fading ferry Portsmouth 2 Ryde.

18/12/22 Soon to be gone.

19/12/22 Scalene shortbreads Niton.

1/12/22 Angel Alley back-yard , White Chapel.

25/11/22 Dress of Pills Euston Rd.

19/12/21 Bracknell Train Station in Mist at Night.

18/12/22 Sell-by-date seats.


22/12/22 Previous routes, ouch, when, flecks of a rubber.

26/10/22 Flecks of more rubber.


19/10/22 Some kind of ex-medicality in LDN w?h?e?r?e.

23/11/22 Albany Nightmare.

23/11/22 Spray-paint-on-Coat / Tory chat / Norfolk's kind arms.

19/10/22 Paddington tat.

24/10/22 Colin's arches, 'ombre' plant-pots (Folkestone, thnk u - tear ears).

25/11/22 Earthly dElights at the Wellcoming Trust with its beanbags.
6/11/22 Washing at Gregynog.

12/11/22 Pwhelli Weatherspoons (after Macfarlane).

24/11/22 Fantasy oyster feast (pink rose).


12/11/22 Potato smiles circle bread-toast.

22/11/22 Another Commodore Cinema.

14/11/22 Blue orchid finalé.


14/11/22 Gates & bins.

25/11/22 Questionable amulets.

29/10/22 Square lud boxiss. x. Trains.

26/10/22 Gates to Other Countries.

24/10/22 Two days on the clock for Nationalist turnovers.

20/10/22 Barnacles on a moving rock.

14/5/21 Pit of text.

20/10/22 M(e)TA Money.

19/10/22 Reading, my Sweet ghost.

25/10/22 Old tea party 'Hackney-by-the-Sea' zonez.

17/10/22 Furniture, cars, printwork.

13/9/22 'Seagulls [summink] this' & claw-marks.

11/12/22 Save all children 2022.

11/12/22 Save all children 2021.

22/10/22 Saint-de-Loupe TABAC.

8/10/22 Honey-pot hills / holy cheese , Bangor.

21/10/22 Montparnasse correct change.

21/10/22 Montparnasse floor.

10/10/22 'The Studio', lol. Matresses or boxxes.

9/10/22 Horse-drawn jeeps.

8/10/22 Portmeriomm amusements/ bus alarm.

7/10/22 Bangor beer Londis treasure-rack (+glasses) #Pigeon.

7/10/22 Keep the Faith, Bangor.

14/10/22 Glitter in toilets, RUMMERS.

17/10/22 Scant benches, coughing men - Cardiff.

17/10/22 Baguetty Junction rd 2 key Cardyff, 4o pence short-bread.

19/10/22 Noble corridors, Big Cardiff.

19/10/22 Noble stone-chats, Big Cardiff.

19/10/22 Capitol rice.

23/10/22 Victoria Line purpel pustules.

20/10/22 Pressing matters.

20/10/22 Stunt-house Marx Dormy x fences / mirror~facade.

26/10/22 M.O.D. Centre of POWER, CH. X leopard-print passengers.

25/10/22 Black towel silver roses bath-tub, Folkestone.


18/10/22 5* absurdity, Cardiff.

17/10/22 Throwback spoons, Cardiff, theatre, N.Y.D-when.

19/10/22 tHE variably controversial MILLENNIUM DOME, Greenwich NORTH.

24/10/22 tHE variably controversial GRAND BURSTIN, Folkestone.

20/10/22 Flixbus Forever.

23/10/22 The contrast of spaces, Mimosas.

19/10/22 Union activities in Cardiff.

7/10/22 Broken mirror party-space M & H, Bangor plz.

3/10/22 An ornamental bell-tower.

22/10/22 Roses in bell-jars on demand in a VIVAL rural French supermarket.

20/10/22 Marx Dormy everything is OPEN.

2/10/22 Angelic Inn.

20/10/19 Corris Uchaf endangered Italian model garden village, wake-up stories HoV.

1/4/21 THE LEXICON / Ex Princess Square CARPARK, Bracknell (ontheroof).

1/1/21 An old garage in Bracknell's Warfield, N.Y.D. again.

5/10/21 Ipswich Maritime Window, PHIL CLAPS TO YOU, Ipswich scraggle-marina.

7/10/21 Beating teeth, thank u pier with your artificial tree-scapes.

9/9/20 Dr Strangelove, or, Centre for Alt. Tech. Fidgets. 

19/8/20 Brac, outskirts of Mach.

1/1/19 Caves and falls in Corris Uchaf, N.Y.D.

1/9/17 Birthing Baskets, Heatherwood Hospital in ASCOT.

2/10/22 Nicest of play-areas at the National Library of Wales, party food + kids in hatz.

23/11/13 Joyeuses Fêtes from a Parisian Mall, long before knowing the Celestial Set-Up.

2/10/22 It has all changed by the Millennium Bridge in Machynlleth.

29/6/13 Hungary roses. 

31/9/22 c.5.23am train.

2/10/22 Love-heart etchings c19th, Exeter Cathedral roof-top.

14/5/22 GEOLOGY AND HISTORY at Ipswich canal.

14/5/22 Hawthorn pilgrim, Ipswich Road 5.20am.

16/9/22 Bear Lanes shopping centre, Newtown.

3/10/22 Wedding attire, CRAFT.

26/3/22 A diligent desk.

22/3/22 Brutalist megazone, upstaging Aber, UEA, sky-roads Norwich.

8/4/22 DARE TO KNOW.

9/4/22 RIP baby most likely, Palm (also RIP)Corner Aberystwyth.

25/2/22 Leopard-print lounging, now SOLD.

22/9/21 True Paradise.

7/9/21 Knife Angel / AMBASSADORS / Capricorn / balconies Piazza.

23/6/21 'HELLO my name is MANIC', Bracknell Forest underpass #14.

30/5/21 CATS, Aberystwyth.

1/4/21 Dear Bracknell ODEON, .

9/1/20 The town of Machynlleth, from a rock.

14/9/18 Promenade de Plantée.

9/9/18 GIEVRES beer-stop, gap-tooth man and lady + peering notebook.

8/9/18 Communist books for the sharing, Aligres.

8/8/17 Grand Baskets, either Cardiff or Paris.

8/4/18 A V&A collection of blue glasses, B. G.

10/4/17 Classical Beauty, every UK stream.

2/2/17 Rising Sun rolling its eyes at Rising Sun Arts Centre in READING.

8/1/17 Classic sloganeering on Brookwood Canal.

25/6/14 Healthy scepticism.

30/6/13 Hungary tiles, the final almost-loss of a starred pen.

20/6/13 Haunted Magdalen, 2013. . .

28/9/21 Creative fuel-queue control Warfield Tesco.

30/9/22 Mixed Glass recycling, gr8 work Aber.

2/9/22 Shrewsbury is Paris.

6/5/22 People sew. Ipswich.

26/4/22 Ponies opposite Bombay Nite.

11/4/22 To peer.

1/4/22 Whisperers in Aberysterwyth.

2/10/21 Tunnels of chaos. Previously GIVE PEAS A CHANCE.

30/9/21 Advertisements to bathe and to read. Could be Sunningdale.

28/9/21 DEMOLITION. RENEWAL. LEXICON. BULL SQUARE. [i]!

25/12/20 English flags in ditches, road to Teresa's Maidenhead. Lucozade & Brambles.

13/12/20 Holy structures.

14/8/20 Tabernackle side-door.

4/8/20 Words on the farm.

13/6/20 The chef's good kitchen, and his lady's fridge-magnet wind-chimes.

1/9/18 Welcome to Calais.

14/7/18 Refuge café, money wall.

8/7/18 Vauxhall flowers.

7/7/18 'EVENING STANDARD IS RACIST BOGROLL', Waterloo.

8/4/18 Bath's sand-stone.

17/7/17 Grenfell Tower, tips of ice-burgs. <3 Rest in Power <3.

3/4/18 Hideous time.

15/2/18 Your Spa Pavillion.

11/2/18 Cheapest house on that coastline, meant to be falling 15 years ago.

4/2/18 Christmas Roses in concrete.

18/11/17 A Utopian's gawping playhouse in Red.

10/8/17 Swollen paradise.

8/8/17 Ubiquitous buddleia, Cardiff's jujjed canals.

16/7/17 Hyper-rare success on a South Western Railway Service. Somewhere in Surrey.

9/7/17 She was trying her best. Queen's Anarchy in dance-shoes, Brighton?

4/7/17 Before the Closure. All the baguettes and shelf-crisps and shortbreads, + buks.

30/4/17 Le Penty football, a wooden bar and bar snacks and pine-nuts in tea.

28/4/17 Statues of Concern way beyond the banlieue.

31/3/17 To have been an usher, like all those admired. Bracknell ODEON, drama toilettes.

14/2/17 A Spectacle, even with I R O N Y ? Bow to Him?

8/2/17 Bracknell's lost hay, swirling across roads to Warfield TESCO roundabout, silverly.

2/2/17 Something else to do with Dickens in Reading. A café called WORKHOUSE, big £.

21/1/17 Many humans and bubbles gather against Trump in the typical square.

2/12/16 Moving sheep, bad-jam porridge, light in beds, Helmsdale, roomy.

9/10/16 The home of a cruel philanthropist. Dancing floor, leaning floor.

15/8/16 On the Isle of Wight, teddy-bears simply picnic.

30/7/16 Poor cat, poorly head, Harman's Water Bracknell underpass art.

22/6/16 Spider Alley's treasure-zone, Ipswich. Vines, cases, grates, box.

5/12/15 Streetways to Floating Pears, trees of them, Mill Rd.

3/11/21 Carpeted play-space in Aberystwyth.

2/10/21 Ode to Sinclair, who odes John Clare.

28/9/21 Statues of Concern, extinct parades, in Bracknell and Harlow new-towns.

17/9/21 Flowers of Peace in Aberystwyth.

15/7/21 Doves of Peace in Aberystwyth.

16/6/21 Limby chaos in Aberystwyth.

24/6/21 Somebody thanks the NHS drivers of the M25. 

23/6/21 Nick Cave records gloves. Angel bids farewell and thank u Bracknell t.c.

1/4/21 Jungle to sun-beds, Frankie & Bennie's, Hollywood Bowl, Odeon, Pizza Hut. Bracknell.

17/2/21 A small heap of sugar.

28/2/21 A destroyed kitchen-play-house (pink).

28/3/20 Hot-box Virtue.

2/10/22 Important Quests.

13/6/20 A fine bathroom (lilac/pink tiles).

25/3/19 Thank you, desk.

11/11/18 To walk forever and ever and ever and ever, Aberdyfi.

1/1/21 Beloved House, West End Lane <3.

16/5/19 Hullabaloo. Utilised trolleys in Calais.

14/5/19 Sweet dancers in Romorantin public libri,,,

13/5/19 Le Palace 3 Cinémas, Romorantin. The whole room is orange.

28/12/18 The good place is closed. ACCEPT ALL CHANGE.

3/5/15 Pink blobs. Tree, you had been nice.

9/9/18 Run run run. Nice stairs. After hand-drawn maps to Wilde's sofa.

10/3/18 Ginger-bread house, Brighton.

21/12/17 Co- Christmas Parties with Co- rporations u don't know.

8/10/17 Vine life Woking canal. Plumbs, plumbers, canal-operators, gate weepers.


12/8/17 A place of Tango (the dance), Reading.

4/9/17 They are all trying. CD player. Window to fairground. Jump! Shp.

4/9/17 Dead moles and uproar on Watersplash Lane.

9/8/17 Aberdare winds. Chip scraps. Big sugar on Welsh cakes. Blonde hair.

30/7/17 Training the posse, Swans and large Signets. Unremembered location.

7/5/15 PLush sofas at Socialist Cinemas, Rotherhithe.

30/4/17 Washing operations in Port-de-la-Chapelle. Quarantine bags and notes.

8/4/17 Fine trinkets for sale at Ascot car-boot.

28/4/17 U can't escape it. 

8/4/17 Ascot is not above car-boots.

31/3/17 The Binfield Kitchen and its polystyrene troughs. 

18/3/17 More dreaming walls, BRIXTON.

13/1/17 Bears and balloons, vines, and fires. Warfield mulch.

24/11/16 Fake fleurs @ an extinct arc-en-ciel café.

15/10/16 Turrets at the House of Woolf.

31/10/16 Farm trax. Tram lines. 

7/9/16 Dark portal to FILM in RYDE.

29/8/16 Keys. Erosion. Paraglision. Wight island coastline.

20/8/14 Trees from a bus.

22/8/14 Tunes by a River.

25/6/14 Fieldy utopian visions, the side of a home in the city of Bremen.

18/6/14 Tyre collections in 'MAM' Paris. Grot.

10/12/13 BIG Fairs in CAMbridge.

30/8/12 Box of Floristry, somewhere in Luddon.

23/5/2010 Foreboding lost gardens. Beware of gardens.

31/8/11 Big tents, blue hair, sorry, chewing-gum head, £50 Lost&Found, Reading c.2011.

18/4/10 Virgin Bothy encounter. Carbon Monoxide Alarms. Wooden slats. Beakonz.

31/1/13 The Beauty of the Flag in a Sussex cage.

1/12/16 ICED QUEEN CAKES 4 PACK, Helmsdale.

1/12/16 Helmsdale building-scales.

5/11/16 RENT-A-DOG and climb THE HOUSING LADDER in Southwold (of all places).

28/10/16 A message from a bottle. Miracles happen.

8/10/16 Cold.

23/9/16 Balloons.

17/10/16 Hands.

29/8/16 Paper-weight gold at an Isle of Wight boot-sale. Yh.

26/8/16 Holiday ice-cream in the head of a bear.

17/6/16 Peace, Love, Wash.

15/6/16 Laundry-rooms. Laundrettes. Knitted dish-clothes. Flowers. Shoes.

11/6/16 Extinct P I E R Felixstowe seafront.

29/5/16 Unconvincing pumpkin, success, under sweet open SKY.


7/6/16 Alice pulls again.

2/5/16 Wasting wasting. Ml Rd French-style café (extinct).

27/4/16 Blossom somewhere near Ml Rd.

21/4/16 Blossom on Mill Road. Too many flyers.

15/4/16 So beautiful so sad. SOLD. Tears from the roses. Yes, we're nodding.

21/3/16 Exquisite expressions. E.V.E. in Manchester. Labels too blurry. Who are you?

18/3/16 Cat on bonnet, Preston.

27/6/13 Grand pastel fountain. It is Vienna. Here is jut of power, cradled in columns.

27/6/13 Freud's very own house. FLOWERS. Arcs.

27/6/13 Mystery vines. ?.


27/1/15 Ladybird Baby Nim, you Care for My Shoes. <3. 

26/12/14 A church with good tinsel, Sufflk.

12/3/16 Mud anger rainbow smoke butterflies @ Yarls Wood Detention Centre. 

11/12/15 A pool. Click clack.

4/12/15 Raindrops, boats, eyes popping out, big jaws, Holy ears.


25/11/15 The supreme Empress. Winnable Pizza. Snowflakes. Tin-sell.


20/6/15 Austerity march selfie #PeaceLove7yearoldt-shirts #iPhonenotyetFairphone #piracy.


18/6/15 We all have space in the city.


5/5/15 The malleable Dolls' House costs £20. A vision of aspiration. Add 5 zeros.


28/11/14 This sign now says 'HELTA SKELTA' instead. M25.

26/6/14 Brussels had not yet closed its doors, or us had not yet on Brussels.

16/6/14 Snaps of Maps. Michèle Bernstein I was doing it too, I swear. 

13/6/14 Bastille. Activity.


11/4/15 Gentrification beckons.

24/5/14 Beautiful new species welcomed to the Rainforest Café.

24/5/14 Southbank Centre, remnant. Bring your Krishna food. Bring your slippers. 

3/5/14 A poor kitten stands little chance in Aligres. And ESCAPES.

21/3/14 Augéan plants, glimmering.

21/3/14 Augéan palms. 

9/3/14 Real orchids (possibly) on a window. 

1/2/14 Hype 21. Wood tables, wood chairs. Cakes in foil, rude gestures. Social mash.

19/12/13 Santas bike down Rue de Something in Paris, clobbered in red, roaring. G. luck.

10/12/13 Putney crisis. Birds everywhere. No vision. Give the people glasses against blurs.

5/12/13 View from the Bartlett Library with their utopian tomes. They've reviewed things.

24/7/10 Unknown theatre.


28/11/13 Sleeping Beauty is lying on the Great Western Rail floor by a vent. Heart confetti.

9/10/13 Skateboard Dump at bridge from Waterloo to Embankment. Admirable dance floor.

13/9/13 THE EIFFEL TOWER, cranes, ants, like Legoland. Great Mythic Paris.

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