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We were fortunate to have our booster shots against Covid today, especially in the light of the local case rate escalation published by the ZOE project. Sitting waiting in the (mercifully quiet) doctor’s surgery I was reminded of a friend’s … Continue reading
Anna’s Random Thoughts
I’m going to have to do this, given the title! A simple and effective artist’s book idea from Anna Yevtukh-Squire. I’ve enjoyed some brilliant classes in creative bookmaking with Anna at Malvern School of Art. over the last couple of … Continue reading
Revisiting the past: ‘dame school’.
I occasionally search desultorily for some of my childhood memories in one form or another. A search for mentions of my ‘dame school’ in Bukuru, Nigeria, threw up a surprise result today, in the form of a book written by … Continue reading
Posted in family history, History, Random, Travel
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Belated Happy New Year!
And an even more belated post. I can’t blame the art summer school (August), daughter’s wedding (end of September), various forays into printing and a flurry of bookmaking for my first ever demo (November) or even the post-election depression and … Continue reading
Posted in People, Photography, Random, Seasonal
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Around the garden
There seems to be a seasonal colour theme going on in the garden today… Montage of a few phone snaps. I do feel a bit guilty at robbing the poor embarrassed moai of their dignity with the pansy hats!
Posted in Houses & Gardens, Locality, Nature, Photography, Random, Seasonal
Tagged flora, garden, purple
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Still here…
Well, that’s embarrassing. 1st March already and my first post of 2017… Ashamed of myself! Here are a few suitably random pics just to show that I haven’t hibernated the whole time since I last posted!
Posted in Photography, Random
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Random Acts of Kindness in the Great Wen
Earlier this week our photographic group of four took a photo-trip to London, combining this with taking a look at the exhibition Strength for Life at St Martin-in-the-Fields as Pam, one of our number, had a winning portrait on show. … Continue reading
Posted in People, Philosophical, Photography, Random
Tagged #randomactsofkindness, Big Issue, cabbie, city, F.action, kindness, London, pay it forward, people, random acts of kindness, stranger
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2016 – rebooted
Well, that took me by surprise. It’s almost the end of January and I’ve not even wished you well for the New(ish) Year…. It’s been rather a downbeat start. We cancelled a visit to friends for New Year’s Eve as … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Photography, Random, Seasonal
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