Barracks Lane

So. My time in London has come to an end and I’m starting up again in Oxford. This happens to be where I live at the moment because I’m a student. The weather was so amazing today that I couldn’t resist cycling up to the community garden to take a look. I’m meeting with the people who work there on April 17th and will probably spend a good few days there generating new material. I’ve got the winter part down – snow, sludge etc – but I’m wondering what I’ll write about for summer. I think of it as a black month. Things getting too ripe and fat. I seem to associate warm weather with scenes from Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg, 1971).

I read at the community garden way back in November but was still slightly confused about the route despite the very handy map above. Took a wrong turning and somewhere and ended up on the green where large groups of men were playing incredibly enthusiastic games of football.

Then when I realised the garden was in the opposite direction, I went past some allotments.

Spoke to a man who was about to go in who seemed happy enough to talk to me if I came by again. There were loads of people there because the weather was so insane.

Finally Barracks Lane itself. Bear in mind I was taking these shots through the gate, so I couldn’t get the yurt which lies directly behind the gate to the left of the image.

On the billboard outside there was a poster for a festival coming to Oxford called WOOD in May. I would go just for this: