Weathered

I've had a pretty social day today, meeting up with old friends. I met Carol for lunch at the World Museum and spent a crazy hour catching up with news. I'll be going to stay with her in Lancaster later in the month so will hope to persuade her to pose for me then!

Then, after work, I headed round the corner to meet my friend Sj fresh off the train from Hull. This is how I found her, basking in the sun on the station steps. I joined her in the sunshine for an hour before grabbing some curry and depositing her at the Belfast ferry terminal.

She's been leading a very nomadic life of late. In the past year she's lived in student digs, a convent, a rural Norfolk vicarage/smallholding (not the Good Life it could have been), a millionaire's basement in Baden Baden, a narrow boat in Ely, a spare room in Cornwall, a couple of hotels (to maintain her sanity), a flat in Sweden, a guesthouse in Copenhagen and a bungalow in Belfast. In 3 weeks time she'll be back in Hull to pursue her academic studies...

Most of the above has not been through choice but because of being homeless or struggling to avoid being so. I hope the next 12 months are going to be a hell of a lot less stressful for her. She deserves some stability and a chance to breathe.