Of course, what you can do, is employ the services of a member of the audience as a temporary replacement. Jazz is after all a highly improvisational form of art. That’s exactly what happened on Saturday when I visited an intimate Jazz club in Soho, Jazz After Dark, where the food was good and the music was even better. Apart from that is, the impromptu stand in.

During the Autumn half term, I became aware of a children’s playscheme that was running for a week in a local church hall so I volunteered to go along for a day and document the activities. Though I don’t see myself as a specialist charity photographer it seemed like a good opportunity to make some new work, and provide assistance to a local organisation trying to provide for kids at a loose end for a week. Recognising that there was very little for young children in their area to do during the holidays, the organisers put together a playschemes with…