Stockwell Road, 1st January 2013

Only a couple of hours into 2013, a rolling white on a wet street, which I'd completely forgotten until I went through the inevitable new year's eve photos the next day. Accursed memory loss... Whether 2013 will bring more frequent updates I don't know, but I imagine from the number of shots I took that this free balloon that it brought fair joy at the time. Ahh. Happy new year!  

By South Wimbledon Tube Station, 14th November 2012

A rare gift near a dear friend's new flat, this enlivened a grey autumn but still failed to prompt me to upload it until now. For shame. 

Off Independence Avenue SW, Washington DC, USA, 12th October 2012

A long way from home, this. We'd just arrived in DC and had toured various well-lit monuments and were walking back to the car when this rolled out of the shadows on a sports field. Bonus!

Off West End Lane, 6th October 2012

And a few hours later, another. If the wind had been blowing west I'd have entertained the thought it might have been the same one seen airborne earlier, but the wind is no respecter of romanticism. More likely it was a blue balloon promotion day somewhere.

From Kentish Town Road, 6th October 2012

So it's been a while, and it'd been a while then too. This shot up from the other side of an unusually sunny street at the end of a wet summer, and was a blue dot by the time I'd met it with a camera. Still, they all count...