Scarp

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Other times he trips into the body of another person and tells their story — that of a woman who falls under the spell of a cult leader; an obscure car accident at ‘suicide corner’; a tramp who is actually the reincarnation of a murderous magician who achieved immortality back in the eighteenth century. A series of walks across Scarp, loosely stretching from Harefield in the south-west to Hertford in the north-east, forms the main thread of the book.

He worries that mass digital technology has enabled us to atrophy these circuits before we even knew we had them. It’s also nice to be out of the rain – the steady drizzle that has fallen throughout the day has hardened into proper raindrops with added attitude. Centred on a sort of survey of a belt of high ground to the north of London, it also dips in and out of the author's personal life, particularly his adolescence.The full lysergic glory of Pinner Hill is revealed in one chapter, the anti-rustic beauties of Edgware in the next.

We stand outside Flexal Springs (1933) and pick apart my erroneous statement that they’re art deco – Pete points out that concrete was the favoured material of European modernists whereas this interwar development seems to be resolutely rendered brick.

A 'deep topographical' dive into the escarpment just south of where I grew up and where I spent a lot of time as a child. Along the way, the poems he reads as national troubadour are from other times, while in his prose every now and then you can feel a new poem budding: Jess the friendly lurcher with a blood thirst for venison, a borrowed bathroom in a stranger's house, a cloud that could be licked. Yes, there's some lovely bits here about the beauty of the disregarded, overgrown lands on London's margins, and the dubious charms of outer suburbia.

The artists are Day Bowman, Dan Coombs, Marguerite Horner, Barbara Howey, Lee Maelzer and Sean Williams. I’m not entirely sure that this is what Guy Debord was hoping for when he first conceived his theory, but given that he’s long gone there’s not a great deal he can do about it.Home from the school run, put the coffee pot on and press play on the CD player without looking to see what’s loaded. Papanikolaou also addresses the huge impact that the new LGBTQI and anti-racist legislation has had and how the LGBTQI movement in Greece now has the power to be even more intersectional and more inclusive.

When we were schlepping round industrial estates in Park Royal and Perivale I always saw it as a Beat quest.Only around the London Eye was there a crowd; a long queue to ride the wheel, which puzzled me, as the visibility was terrible, but I realised it was the miracle of the snow which drew them, as if they needed to reach its source to understand its movement. I also ended up listening to some 1970s prog rock ( Kevin Ayers, Egg ) which was mentioned in the strange story of the Gloria Queen of the Psychedelic Ancients of Lower Saxony cult.