Late stroll. A rust-shadow marks the spot where a skip once collected unwanted dreams and stuff. I wonder how and why that conker climbed onto a high wall. The streetlights waited for me to arrive before twinkling on in turn. A radiator leans nonchalantly against a wall.

I’m not in any way a gardener, but this is the third batch of the year of stewed apples from our tree (and could have been more if I’d been more organised). In response to our benign neglect, the tree has good and bad years, and this has been an amazingly good year. And yes, they taste good…

Late stroll. The crocodile-cloud inexorably guzzles the moon. A crowd of silhouetted chimneys gossip against a fading western sky. The roundabouting headlights vigilantly sweep the dark carpark. A lost hubcap is a mulling mini-UFO on the verge, preparing to disembark.

A little boy on the train plays ‘Rock Paper Scissors’ with his grandmother in what I think is Korean. They match more than they differ, which keeps making them break into giggles.

Leicester wasting some good chances at the end. #LCFC

Liv McLoughlin, who might be my new favourite player, hits the crossbar from distance after Everton fail to clear a corner. #LCFC

Mouchon makes an instant impact! ⚽️ #LCFC

Strikeforce #LCFC

Momiki and Mace cheered rather than booed. #LCFC

Somewhat surprisingly, the shirts in the Foxes Fanstore signed by Cesare Casadei, Tom Cannon and CJ Bott have not been snapped up. #LCFC

Matchday (NB 11.55 is a particularly daft kickoff time). We’ve been playing better than I expected/feared this season but don’t really have the results to show for it, so really hoping for a win, & the fact Mace & Momiki are both likely to start for Everton would make that extra satisfying. #LCFC 🦊💙

Matchday (NB 11.55 is a particularly daft kickoff time). We’ve been playing better than I expected/feared this season but don’t really have the results to show for it, so really hoping for a win, & the fact Mace & Momiki are both likely to start for Everton would make that extra satisfying. #LCFC 🦊💙

Late stroll. A car’s cover is like exquisitely sculpted marble in a streetlamp’s glare. The broken footpath sign points up to the summit of an invisible hill. A train of tubes clanks sinisterly. Each light makes giant leaf-shadows on the ground. Distant ribs of cloud.

Leicester not drawing a game. #LCFC 🦊💙

Late stroll. An illuminated house-alarm is a ghostly guardskull. A distant motorbike roars, as if ridden by an angry dinosaur. Twin caravans doze accommodatingly in a garden. A railing fence dances with its own shadows. The conga of trolleys awaits tomorrow’s shoppers.

I wrote a short piece for the Observer on the attacks in Manchester. observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

Late stroll. The October air retains a faint, sad memory of summer. Each streetlight creates a wave on the tide of shadows rolling down the road. A balloon-powered pushchair bubbles home from a party. The traffic light’s shadow pretends to be a 3-mountained horizon.

Late stroll. A tractor marches past on caterpillars pulling something farmy. The clear blue sky fades west to orange. Five streetlights in my vision are like fireflies dancing elegantly at different speeds. The full moon throws a small cloud of chalk into the darkness.

Matchday (my third game in five days). I enjoyed the first series of Welcome to Wrexham, which captured well the importance of a football club to its community, but I didn’t expect they’d be coming to the KP so soon, & with a bunch of ex-Leicester players. We just need to win; that is all. #LCFC 🦊💙

Matchday (my third game in five days). I enjoyed the first series of Welcome to Wrexham, which captured well the importance of a football club to its community, but I didn’t expect they’d be coming to the KP so soon, & with a bunch of ex-Leicester players. We just need to win; that is all. #LCFC 🦊💙

The best commute in #London? Some reflections on a walk I did thousands of times…

The best commute in #London? Some reflections on a walk I did thousands of times…

The men got an injury time equaliser on Friday. Can the women do the same? #LCFC

Well Spurs should have had a red… #LCFC

Mouchon on for Cayman. #LCFC want to win this…

Always worrying when Hannah goes down #LCFC

Leicester are pushing… #LCFC

Always good to see. #LCFC

It’s entertainingly feisty. Wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a sending off before the 90 minutes is up. #LCFC

Second half: here we go. All to play for…. #COYF #LCFC 🦊💙

TIERNEY! - nice from Hannah down the right and then Sam wins the scrap in the box. Game on… ⚽️🦊💙 #LCFC

Spurs midfield resorting to the ‘push players over’ tactic. Asmita Ale with ‘point to prove’ vibes against her former team. #LCFC

Leicester are playing some nice football but Spurs are much more clinical #LCFC

In the first few minutes the #LCFC front three (Cain, van Egmond and Eiriksdottir) are swapping places fluidly and putting a lot of pressure on the Spurs back line. But Spurs are countering well.

If you see this, post a bridge.

A few years after opening the Stockton and Darlington railway, George Stephenson was living in Leicestershire, where he invested in mines in the coalfield in the NW of the county, and built the Leicester and Swannington railway to transport coal, including the 1832 Glenfield Tunnel. 1/2 #Railway200

Matchday (NB noon is too early for kickoff). Spurs finished below us last season but have made a good start this term, & by all accounts we played well in our narrow defeat to Chelsea. So today should be a good test: I’m tentatively wondering if we might do better than expected this season. #LCFC 🦊💙

Signposts with corrections: an occasional series. #signpostswithcorrections

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Late stroll. A hitch-hiking bin waits patiently by the road. Willows make petrified waterfalls, falling against the deep darkness. Great potato waffles above make shadows on the pavement. Clouds are daubed artistically against the western sky. The path smiles cheesily.

‘Look, matey, I know a dead postbox when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now…’ ‘No no, he's not dead, he's resting!’ #PostboxSaturday

A few years after opening the Stockton and Darlington railway, George Stephenson was living in Leicestershire, where he invested in mines in the coalfield in the NW of the county, and built the Leicester and Swannington railway to transport coal, including the 1832 Glenfield Tunnel. 1/2 #Railway200

No one: Me: Noon. #palindrome

#OTD 27th September 1825, the Stockton and Darlington railway opened, the world’s first steam-powered passenger railway line. The first train was pulled by George Stephenson’s ‘Locomotion no 1’. #Railway200

#BlueSkyArtShow #TheRoad Leicester, after the pub

Lastminute.leicester 😂🦊💙 #LCFC

Matchday. My first away trip this season and my first visit to the Hawthorns (where Vardy always scored, so the baton is there for someone else to take). We still don’t know how good this Leicester team is yet, so maybe we’ll start to find out today - but I’d happily take a scrappy 1-0 win. #LCFC 🦊💙

Next time Haaland scores I’ll assume he’s got the Goldberg Variations playing in his head to help keep him focused (and I’ll forgive the Grieg because he’s from Scandinavia).