Kieran Turner's photos

Mark & Karen examining Truck during the first major breakdown. We're on the way to FYROM (a.k.a. The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) to deliver to camps of Kosovar refugees. We've made it as far as... France, when the prop-shaft falls off. We were saved by using my mobile phone to send an email to Radio 1, where Simon Mayo announced our plight. The guy who runs Norwich Union heard us and called his mate who runs the RAC. Their wonderful team in Lyon saved us. Really! www.aidconvoy.net

Sasha, Tanya, Sergei at home in Chernigov. Pentax ME-Super, 50mm, no flash.

At the Aratta community centre, Ukraine. www.aidconvoy.net Pentax ME-Super, 50mm, no flash, very yellow lighting... is all I remember.

En route to Kosova, from the top of one of the amazing Pindas mountains in Greece as we wound around the twisty roads. www.aidconvoy.net/ A shot showing somewhere near where i was standing is here . Taken on the old faithful Pentax ME-Super, 50mm (f1.7) lens, yellow filter, Kodak Tri-X. Sorry about film scanner losing the highlights!

Suzi with her new friend. I've shifted the colours a lot because my scanner went a bit crazy — what colour management? Taken on the old faithful Pentax ME-Super, 50mm.

Jim Browning is an "adventurer", and a bit of a hero. Seen here with Suzi in Prishtinë, Kosova, in the midst of an unlikely and unplanned expedition to rescue truck from Albania. Jim hadn't been to Albania before, but nevertheless after we'd finished the aid delivery we were doing in Kosova, he agreed to take me across the mountains. My truck had been languishing there since dropping his propshaft just ouside Rubik. Six months on, and apart from the rats' nest in the heater he was basically okay. Made it as far as Bari in Italy before the improperly repaired prop fell off again, but we got him home and he did four convoys to Chernobyl after that :) Tales on www.aidconvoy.net Not sure which camera produced this, either the Pentax ME-Super or an ancient Nikon. Either would have had a 50mm lens and Kodak Tri-X or Plus-X.

In Gjilane, south-east Kosova, where we'd just delivered equipment to the hospital. www.aidconvoy.net Taken with a snappy little Canon compact zoom, sorry about the dreadful scan from a cheap film scanner.

Okay, this set of photos is very random, I admit it. This one's a baby racoon called Eddie. He's just spotted a particularly tasty acorn.

Corny, I know, I know ;)

This is a magical cat. I decided he was so beautiful and well posed by his carnations that I would return the next day to his elegant little art shop and deliver some food to him. But the next day – and on every subsequent occasion I've been to Amsterdam – the shop isn't there. I've trawled these streets. Believe me, it really isn't there. And it didn't just close down, it's really gone. Should you ever be around Kaisergracht, keep your eyes open, please... As for the photo, sorry about the blurriness. But he's too cool to trash. Update: I still haven't found him again, but it seems I bore Amsterdam's cats .

The title is what a very senior person (ahem, naming no names) said to the local Vice Consul. Border of Greece and the Republic of Macedonia, July 1999, en route to Kosova. But that's not so much the point of this upload, I just like my "Michael York" look in the photo! ;) Taken with a fairly old Nikon (don't remember which) with a 50mm on Kodak Plus-X, by Suzi. For technorati, the telephone is my old Ericsson T28, which – like the T39 I was to have a bit later – was an excellent phone I wouldn't object to having back again. Infinitely more reliable, and nicer to handle, than any phone I've had recently.

Hanging out on my car. It really was enormous, maybe as much as 10cm tip-to-tip.