I used to work for a chap up in Hull, or to give its proper name Kingston upon Hull. It was once one of our nations premier fishing ports. If you have ever been there then you’ll know that when you get to Goole ( put that name in spellchecker and you’ll get google ) you are still quite a way off. So we can perhaps agree that Hull is a little bit way off. Way out even. The man I worked for designed posters for nearby Scarborough’s famous playwright Alan Ayckbourn, who wrote, and perhaps still does, some wonderfully … Continue reading Does a budgie impact creativity?

Taken some years ago on a walking holiday in Sardinia. Sunshine almost all the way and loads of wild flowers like this deserved something more than an enthusiastic amateur to take its picture and try and identify it, but there you go. Now is a good time to think of sunshine and flowers methinks. I’m a fan of walking holidays, we’ve been on a few and shared some great moments with complete strangers who happened to have booked the same week as us. One couple actually won their holiday and did not look like walkers might look, being of the … Continue reading Sardinian orchid and sooty occupants.

This is the view from one of my regular walks with my good friend Richard. We’ve done the walk about 4 times now and the plan is to set of from Priddy a small stretched out village on the top of the Mendip Hills in Somerset, then to walk down to Wookey Hole, where there is a place to partake of a regulation cuppa before the walk back up to the top, through the woods and up a gorge. This is quite narrow and steep and it’s from here that I took this image. Looking up to a perfect blue … Continue reading Mendip Gorge looking up…