Walter 16

Ext. day. (a succession of classically framed still landscapes)

I had a call from my daughter today - which is a bit out of the ordinary - unless she wants money. She's leaving her husband. She was calling me to say she'd fallen out with her mother and had no-where she could go and could she come and stay? I thought I'd better say yes.

I hope this business of filming people in the street isn't going to get me in trouble. It's just very fascinating to catch people on film and un-awares. And it's so much easier to do that when you have cameras hidden inside traffic cones.

I've read up on the legalities and I'm not doing anything wrong. I've decided. Okay, Steve has helped me to see - if I'm honest, that what i'm doing is important work. He sees it as important work. He has told me it's important work I do feel a bit of an arsehole... But he says i'm working in a long tradition of the 18th and 19th century Flaneurs - who were mostly French - right up to the Mass Observation film makers like Flaherty and some other people in the 1930's when everyone lost their jobs and maybe didn't have better things to do with themselves...

I've thought a lot about what Steve says - we've met up a few more times..

He says what I'm doing is 'reportage'. He says quite a few things in French, which is a bit off putting sometimes...

She's coming next week, after she's told her husband. She sounded very certain. I felt quite proud of her. I wonder what she's going to do for a job? Is she expecting me to keep her? Wouldn't be un-reasonable if the CSA hadn't already accounted for all my would be disposable income.

How do I feel? I don't know. What will we talk about? I feel nervous. I haven't really had a conversation with her since - Well, i haven't, I just haven't..

History gets made so quickly......