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Feast of Fools

Feast of Fools

Reading Time: 2 minutes Laughing, shouting, screaming, pouting,Spinning, wheeling, double-dealing,Up and down and in and out,Nameless faces, I can’t count,Dancing, prancing, dicing, chancing,Running, jumping, leaping, bumping,Never stopping, never dropping,Going on and on and on,This is all my life is for,Had enough and still need more,This is all I’m going 

21st Century Carol

21st Century Carol

Reading Time: < 1 minutes So. It’s here. It’s been a pretty chaotic few weeks, what with Christmas preparations, work exhaustion, my heating breaking down and various other general life issues, but I have actually done it. 21st Century Carol by Requiem Ensanglanté I came up with a weird idea 

Hometown (The Soil That Grew Me)

Hometown (The Soil That Grew Me)

Reading Time: 2 minutes For 50 square miles she lies spread out before me,Like a dog to her master, this city’s enslaved me,High on the hills I see the lights all around me,I wish when I spoke, that this town could hear me, Home town. In the shadow of 

Making a Splash!

Making a Splash!

Reading Time: 2 minutes Back in the glory days of film photography, there were all manner of cheap and cheerful fun cameras doing the rounds. One of the best of these has to have been waterproof cameras. Often you could pick these up as disposables but there were also 

Scotch Chrome

Scotch Chrome

Reading Time: 4 minutes I have been going back a bit to get some more ‘blog style posts onto this site (something I originally aimed to do) – inspired in part by managing to edit a good selection of film scans which have been hanging about for ages, and 

Witchy Places

Witchy Places

Reading Time: 3 minutes I have visited Knaresborough quite a few times to walk, and shoot and entertain small children, but I had not visited it’s so called main attraction – Mother Shiptons Caves. As a bit of a summer treat we took the younger two out for the 

Skipton

Skipton

Reading Time: 2 minutes Skipton is another place that, although broadly on my doorstep, I have never actually explored. I have kept meaning to walk there as a part of my canal project, but this time we got the train. What struck me about the place is that it 

Purple Haze

Purple Haze

Reading Time: 2 minutes Once again, the lure of the Lomo hits… It’s funny, I have such a love/hate relationship with this idea. My practise totally encompasses mad experimentation, but the obsessive commercialisation of it from the Lomography movement is somehow distatseful. Nonetheless, when I happened across some Lomochrome 

Images from The Underground

Images from The Underground

Reading Time: < 1 minutes After a certain amount of thought, I have decided to cull the Images From The Underground Website. There’s a few reasons for this – to be fair, in the days of social media, the people who I would like to engage with this project do 

Goodbye

Goodbye

Reading Time: 2 minutes You wrote your life upon the pages,Of a book no one has read,You dreamed your dreams upon the stage,Of a theatre in your head.Farewell your life in the dusty streets,Of a town you used to call your home,The dead-end streets that gave to you,All you’ve 

Scarborough

Scarborough

Reading Time: 2 minutes We’ve not managed a holiday this year, for various reasons, but we have managed a rather good day out in Scarborough, courtesy of Unison. This is one of the perks being a member offers; a free day trip to the sea-side each year, and with 

Claire

Claire

Reading Time: 2 minutes They were still young when he first met her,To fragile to hold, he feared she would be torn.So many miles and lives between them,It could have been, but life was just too cruel. And on that day when she first held him,She felt him inside,