I was sitting quietly reading the newspapers this morning, well as quietly as you can sit reading the newspapers when a few houses down our road the builder with the electric drill, or is it a saw, continues to turn…
My proper camera got busted in Italy when I jammed the memory card too roughly into it and it is still away with nice Mr Cannon who is mending it for no small amount of money. In the meanwhile, I…
Mottled Lines at the Orange Tree Theatre Those riots that set parts of London ablaze last summer rattled the nation, the government sprang into instant over-reaction and blanket condemnation, the media revelled in analysis mixed with hysteria, and the public…
Once upon a time, many years ago, there were Lords and Ladies, knights in shining armour, Kings and Queens, magicians, dragons and small creatures like elves and faeries. They can still be found in fairy stories told to children to…
Andy Murray crying in defeat. It’s sad to be the loser but it was good to see Andy Murray react so openly and honestly to his defeat when he lost the Wimbledon Gentlemen’s Final yesterday in heroic style. Gone are…
Before I ate one of those pears (it was deliciously juicy) I thought I would photograph the two Italian ceramic fruit bowls in my kitchen as they caught the morning light from the window above. It made me think of…
It was all quiet in my small town garden at lunchtime today after the rain had stopped then I heard the sounds of a riot or maybe a procession. My hometown of Lewes goes in fro processions big time and…
Peter Higgs in Geneva I liked Physics at school but it clashed with English so I had to give it up which was sad because if I’d learnt more about it then I would know more about the apparently amazing…
I don’t usually go around taking photographs of piles of rubble or of holes in the ground but on Sunday I was in Worthing in Sussex, UK and saw an unpleasant sight. The mound used to be Worthing’s Aart deco…
This was my Santa Margherita Ligure home for two weeks on my recent Italian Riviera holiday – I shall miss it. All thanks to my landlord Attilio De Pascalis who showed me round the town in so much detail on…