This is my covid piece - finally hung out in April 2023 along the route I walked so often during those days of isolation; my only companions being earphones and an android. The democracy of the phone as camera, with its ability to record random thoughts, seemed appropriately diaristic.
Eventually a few of these pictures married up with some of the verses. I have now scattered ten of these along the route from North Shields to Whitley Bay, encapsulated as a record of that journey. Blowing in the northerlies.
![Clickety click](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/b7cfc164a6d7edb762a1253edb4781f6/79328c85-6f84-4eaf-852b-b25c9c226605_rw_600.jpg?h=3b8e4559a029985047516d5059673b67)
Clickety click
![The runners](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/b7cfc164a6d7edb762a1253edb4781f6/891259b0-fceb-4b46-a433-c9683fdb59af_rw_600.jpg?h=513834f7e34c802489daca0d82df1811)
The runners
![Panorama](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/b7cfc164a6d7edb762a1253edb4781f6/26b90239-8f43-4435-9c48-95246ee158ce_rw_600.jpg?h=8dced7365a1da373df90640803b4e74f)
Panorama
![Happy Dogs](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/b7cfc164a6d7edb762a1253edb4781f6/8d59da3b-9eac-4ac2-9632-fbfade07075c_rw_600.jpg?h=2a2c5e651ab6e142e2ffd63a82cf288a)
Happy Dogs
![Same storm, different boat](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/b7cfc164a6d7edb762a1253edb4781f6/7998e777-8d50-4094-bcc0-3b26a1ff93c7_rw_600.jpg?h=946fcca4d8cfe703a959daa8d0f1c5e9)
Same storm, different boat
![Ghosts](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/b7cfc164a6d7edb762a1253edb4781f6/cf8caa06-b6b0-41eb-9712-8d8414a5dda9_rw_600.jpg?h=66af0fef7eb9abcd640ceacd9b534a93)
Ghosts
![Flip book](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/b7cfc164a6d7edb762a1253edb4781f6/5eb31e49-7715-47f1-964b-341be648d227_rw_600.jpg?h=b9f49d7c6ebfc3ee06fcb45656e32b42)
Flip book
![Excitations](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/b7cfc164a6d7edb762a1253edb4781f6/facd3dc0-676a-4c40-937a-8483dc9bcebb_rw_600.jpg?h=74b1a58748a0b7d836a64cf94e0cf384)
Excitations
![Inspirational cheese](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/b7cfc164a6d7edb762a1253edb4781f6/af847daa-5808-4b79-86e6-5886aee1247e_rw_600.jpg?h=3e0b7e9cc05cadd698fbf4d600dd8b82)
Inspirational cheese
![Perseverance](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/b7cfc164a6d7edb762a1253edb4781f6/16d482b6-18d1-4642-aeb1-83d187a124a4_rw_600.jpg?h=30d28bfc1d4d66131c3776f6507cea75)
Perseverance
A concertina of selves
A postcard carousel
A what the butler saw
A postcard carousel
A what the butler saw