More disgusting election coloured confectionary. Believe it or not this is a hard boiled egg covered with jelly and topped with grated coconut. So I'm told, and so the taste would lead me to believe.

When the chips are down, market yourself some more... However, as with all politicians they only come in one flavour - ready salted. So for those who wanted a choice in this election, better get the McCoys in.

Believe it or not this is meant to summarise Britain's last five years, and doesn't it look a mess.

Taken on Haloween 2007. This was such an instantaneous shot that I didn't realise what I was really taking before the shutter button had gone down. The resulting image was therefore severely underexposed, with over bright flash marks in the foreground where the men were wearing reflective gear.

Taken with my Pentax K1000 on Velvia slide film (colour positive). This image has been printed as a black and white negative, if effect reversing all the colours. Half way through printing and realising it wasn't going to work very well, I stopped and switched on the light... Then deciding to finish it, I printed the other solarised half.

The whites are the first to finish exposing and so come out pretty much as they should, and the blacks which are not developed are given an extra burst of light and so also come out as white. But everything in between comes out as a slightly reversed shade of grey with sharp white outlines. The true effect of which Photoshop has never been able to match.

A sign of what a horrible mess Photoshop can make of a cheap image. Although, when that image was underexposed, glares all over and a general mess in the first place... I say two negatives make a positive.

The first and one of a select handful of polaroids I have ever taken. And on a Hasselblad back no less. Curiously underexposed.

Its always good when you get something nice out of the end of the roll... And a lesson for us all when we get tired of rolling the film onto the spool, cramming the rest into the pot might actually work.

Some hand held photos taken with a hand held flash and a long shutter speed... and running backwards.

Taken with my a nice and simple Pentax K1000 and a nice crisp roll of Ilford Delta 400.

And finally... a healthy use for wheat grass.

The new troops at Horse Guards make quite a difference.