NOTTINGHILL HOTTING UP!!!

It's Friday, the end of the week and the beginning of celebrations that will either see you headed out to Manchester Pride, or just generally getting out of the city for the Bank Holiday Weekend or if you is Trini to the Bone like me, making final preparations for the Nottinghill Carnival.


I had the pleasure of getting up close and personal when 3CANAL was on stage at CALO's launch at Alexander Palace 

and had a whale of a time on stage with my band that I'm playing with this year SUNSHINE INTERNATIONAL ARTS.


I'll be taking in a healthy dose of ABIR this Sunday, and then all that will be left is to cross London's version of the big stage this Monday in the section entitled 


'DREE VAY CHILE'  Fitting isn't it.


So have a good weekend, whatever you get up to. 


PLAY HARD, but PLAY SAFE.


and LOOK FUH MEH ON DE ROAD.

RasConrad likes nothing better, 

than to be half-naked; wining behind a truck 

listening to the sweets sounds of Soca and Calypso,.. 

and truthfully who doesn't

iPHONEOGRAPHY - WEST CROYDEN after the riots

I've been bringing you images of in and around LONDON, 
to highlight everyday locations that we pass by everyday.
To show you them in a new light.
To perhaps open your eyes to seeing them in a new way.


I didn't go into the riots 'purposely'  hoping to capture images of people 
at their worst. But I did have to go to West Croyden.
And though the riots were over, the aftermath definately falls into the 
category of seeing things in a new light.

(images taken near West Croyden station the day after riots erupted there and throughout London)

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TURNING YET ANOTHER CORNER...

there have been riots and revelations,  updates and upheavals, 
trials and tribulations and through it all we stand firm..., so why not me?




It's been quite some time since I've blogged, 
I think in a lotta ways my 'spirit' was broken.
But I am blessed with the most AMAZING  friends and family
and I am learning to better appreciate my faith
and to look at the little miracles that occur around me everyday
rather than waiting for signs in floods, or people walking on water.
The real test in not to walk on water or fly in the sky but to walk on the earth.
Somehow I have managed to pull through it all.


Now I look forward to letting go of the past, 
and looking towards the future.
Secure in the knowledge that even though I may NOT know what it [the future] will bring
that WHEREVER I end up, that is where 'I' will be.


'I' ..., that is myself..., 
pure, unadulterated and with no additives or preservatives...,
'I'  will be there.


Not 'I' , as I believe the would like me to be...
Not 'I' , as I think I should portray myself to the public...
Not 'I' , as someone skulking in corners and hiding in doorways...


 I AS IN ME. AS I AM WITH NO APOLOGIES.


For at the end of the day..., 
if we are true to ourselves, 


IS NOT HALF THE BATTLE WON ALREADY.


RC...


blessings