Tag: United Kingdom of Zoo

On one side of the street a row of pre-War three-story buildings – shopfront downstairs, residential apartment/flats above.  On the other side of the street, modern four/five level office buildings, and an old train station with a sign outside that reads, “Welcome to Enfield Chase”.  We’re in North London to meet our next subject, and […] read

Our drone is flying in over the top of the Wollaton Park Golf Club in Nottingham on a drab and dreary cold day.  The sky is grey, and the trees are leaning slightly in the wind.  We come to rest on the fairway of the 15th hole.  Four players, two husband and wife pairs, are wheeling […] read

We establish with a shot of a long, narrow terrace of two-story homes.  High angle, drone footage.  Not the prettiest suburb.  Pretty rough.  Nothing much to look at. Then we’re in the back garden of one of those two-story homes.  It’s cruel to say, but this week’s subject is nothing special to look at either.  […] read

We float in over a wooded area on the outskirts of a small city.  Beyond the trees long curving estates, built in the 60’s to provide housing for the British middle-class.  This is Plymouth, on the English South coast, and beneath us are the Parkway Woods.  Our next subject is standing with her husband infront […] read

We’re on a pretty grimy old terraced street in the grim northern city of Gateshead. The houses are wall-to-wall, narrow and double story. Brick walled, with a front door and a single window on the ground level, two windows on the upper level, and an almost pointless one-meter front ‘yard’, before a low brick wall […] read

We’re in Holbeck – a large residential suburb Leeds, in the north of England.  The weather is rotten, windy and rainy, as we look at the grim exterior of an old two-story building with boarded and barred windows.  A sign above the front door reads, almost ironically, ‘THE FUN HOUSE’. Inside, we’re in a different […] read

Kings Place, London.  The large, modern home of The Guardian newspaper – arguably the UK’s most balanced news publication.  We’re not going inside, our next subject has asked to meet us just along York Way at Pret-A-Manger for a vegetarian wrap (or two) and an organic coffee. She’s a curvy, middle-aged woman with long wavy […] read

Introducing the Pocket Rocket.  She’s short.  Less than 5 feet tall, with a nice pair of boobs, hair cut short and blonde, styled into a punky-funky close-cropped style, and thick rimmed, squared off spectacles make her eyes look a little beady.  She’s not unpleasant to look at, but she’d be well down the list of […] read

This week we’re in Stoke in the north-west of England.  It’s a beautiful summers day and we’re at a large public park.  We watch children playing, couples young and old walking hand-in-hand, a family playing cricket, and of course, people taking their dogs for walks.  Amongst them all, there’s a slim young woman, dressed like […] read

Footage courtesy of British Academy of Television. We see the brightest and best of the British television industry, all dressed up in their best – hair perfect, make-up (for the ladies, mainly), and big smiles.  Amongst the familiar actors, actresses, chat-show hosts, comedians, reality stars and general celebrities, we see a face that looks slightly […] read

Focus on a friendly 30-something woman standing outside a small reception venue.  Her dyed blonde hair is pulled back behind a double-pierced ear with two rings through the lobe, then falls casually over her company uniform, a dark blue blouse and skirt combination coupled with a moderate heeled shoe.  Smart, but comfortable.  The uniform doesn’t […] read