...a plethora of creative nonsense...
Reading Time: 3 minutesSo, for a change I decided not to buy a guitar, much to the amazement of my partner and my son. For many many years, any spare cash I had was religiously spent on synthesisers, and this Christmas I decided to revive that great tradition. …
Reading Time: 3 minutesAs those who have viewed my photography at length may well know, I’ve spent quite a lot of time in Howarth, mostly because of it’s location on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway. Sometimes this has been with the smaller and younger generation, others we …
Reading Time: 2 minutesSometimes we forget that there are many beautiful things to see (and shoot) right on our own doorsteps. I walk round meanwood quite a lot, but sometime neglect to spend a moment capturing the beauty of the place. Here’s just a few autumnal pictures
Reading Time: 4 minutesFurther to the eventual aim of walking all the Yorkshire Canals, we set of on another canal walk, this time with the Aim of Dewsbury to (at least) Mirfield. As I have said before, though there are some reasonably interesting Industrial buildings, Dewsbury is not …
Reading Time: 3 minutesOnce again, we have been to the annual Leeds West Indian Carnival. I wax lyrical about this each year, so I am njot really going to rattle on and just leave this set of images to enjoy.
Reading Time: 2 minutesVery excitingly, it appears that some spoonbills have returned to nest at Fairburn Ings, so we went for a walk to try and see them. Sadly the promised viewing area close by the main visitor centre had not materialised, but a kind gentleman allowed us …
Reading Time: 6 minutesSo tell us about this new project then? I started writing this about 20 odd years ago – I guess quite a lot was the standard teenage/early 20s angst type stuff – it was all based around leaving Cambridge and moving up to Leeds, growing …
Reading Time: 2 minutesLaughing, 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 …
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSo. 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 …
Lockdown
Reading Time: 3 minutesSo here we are. After the increasing wierdness of the last few weeks Boris has shut us down. We’re confined to our homes, mostly. It started off feeling a bit exciting. We were sent to work at home to minimise people in the building. I …