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Yolly on the Beach

This is a picture of Yolly on the beach at Camber Sands. I took a Photoshop book out of the library on Victoria Street and it showed you how to make bits of the image blurry. It would have come out better if I could have found the "Flow" setting which was meant to be set to 20 percent (different versions of Photoshop I guess). It would also have come out better if I hadn't got bored halfway through the instructions and my wife hadn't come home drunk staggering around the living-room talking about the Libertines, Pete Doherty and Max Carlish (the doc is on C4 tonight). Bookclub eh? More like a drinking and talking shop if you ask me. Max Carlish went to the same school as me but he's a couple years younger.

Upside-down Bear Pencil Case: click on the bear to see some more bad drawings

This is a bear pencil case I bought off some trendy 19 year-old kid with a fin haircut and stupid jeans in Brick Lane a few years ago. Me and Yol had somehow ended up there on a Sunday morning (to get beigels no doubt) and there was this guy selling off what looked like his childhood all laid out on a blanket. I think since moving to London he'd developed a drug habit or simply acute embarrassment about his former pre-cool life. I liked it and the transaction was done for 50p. I think it might have been hand-made by his mum. It now has a Robert Crumb badge, a solvent abuse badge and a St Joseph's Hospice Keyring attached to it. And yes, it is meant to be upside down.

7-0

I went with Cathy to see the Arse play Everton but it turned out to be a massacre with Arsenal winning 7-0 even without Henry scoring. He came on for the second half and set up three of the four second-half goals including Edu's goal from the penalty. It was kind of exciting (the Guardian raved about it) but as neither team's position would be changed in the table whatever the result it wasn't anything to get too excited about. Having said that me and Yol did see the Middlesboro game at the start of the season that Gordon Strachen named as one of the best (or was it most exciting?) game of the season. Sol Campbell looked decidedly rusty. Bergkamp was good for an old man. They did a slightly desultory lap of honour at the end (they haven't won anything this season as yet) and we slipped out once they gone past the North Bank.

If you hadn't realised this isn't one of my photos. The strip next season is a weird maroon colour with gold letters on the back and is supposedly a replica of the original Arsenal strip. Synthetic fabrics have been around a lot longer than you'd think.

Hed Quarters, Brighton

The reappearance of Stella Vine in the UK. Stella's been in LA working on a show out there and jetted back for a show she's in in Brighton. I know this picture is hardly documentary evidence but she is in there, talking to Cathy. Cathy's in the green coat and a load of people decided to jump in-between Stella and me just as I took the picture. The show is curated by Delaine and Damian Le Bas and did feature the work of Jimmy Pursey, ex-Sham 69 singer, until he took his work down in a strop and went to the pub. "It appears that the kids aren't united," some wag remarked in tribute to Sham's hit single "If the Kids are united".