Excerpts from my notebook

Notes on things noticed, seen, witnessed or experienced. Can double as evidence in a court of law if needed.


  • Man working behind tills at health food shop was able to identify baked goods (focaccia) through paper bag without looking at it

18th March 2026


  • Woman came into cafe holding multiple bags of vacuums and moving around with a demented intensity. As I watched her leave she turned back and gave me a menacing yet seductive glare.

17th March 2026


  • Most depressed train announcement I've ever heard. “Well…. This terminates at Hastings… Apparently“ followed by a long sigh.

  • Child did not once break eye contact with me across a cafe

11th March 2026


  • Saw a dog dance on hind legs for much longer than I anticipated

  • Someone was using a hose and on first glance thought they were wrestling a giant rat

  • Mistook a broom for a dog. I think I'm undergoing some kind of animal related psychosis?

7th March 2026


  • Got stopped by a girl half my age who asked about my outfit. She said she loves men dressed as ‘old fashioned gentlemen‘. I don’t know whether she was calling me old, or a suggesting I was a bit of a ‘character‘.

2nd March 2026


  • “Are you tripping balls Kiki?“ then “One fang sticking out” a woman on a train was saying to what I assume, and hope - is a strange looking child.

  • Saw woman wearing an outdoorsy style jacket, but the back was an entirely rhinestoned portrait of 3 tigers. Very classy.

  • Child smiling and throwing coins at a homeless woman like she was a busker

28th Feb 2026


  • “I try not to get any falafel“ said a man leaving a shop called we love falafel, while holding falafel

27th Feb 2026


26th Feb 2026

  • Saw a girl wearing head to toe tie dye openly weeping in the street

  • The girls who work in a cafe I frequent told me that a woman had been in 3 times that day, each time with another man. Good for her.


25th Feb 2026

  • Thought I saw a dead dove, turned out to be a plastic bag slumped on a park bench

  • Portsmouth now has a Lucy & Yak, which feels out of place

  • First taste of spring and Devotchka’s ‘How It Ends‘ came on shuffle while I was sat in the sunshine. Really rather nice