Not quite a camera…

… but my phone, it turns out, has an internal camera.  As, in fact, does the phone of my friend, with whom I found myself crossing Blackfriar’s Bridge on one of those evenings when London really does its thing.  I sometimes get asked what I have in common with my characters, especially narrators like Matthew Swift.  There are a number of very obvious things I don’t have in common.  I’m not a) male b) magical or c) semi-possessed/psychotic.  But we do have something in common… we both like Thai food, and both love the river.  When tired, angry or upset, the river is the guaranteed place in all the city that will calm me down.