Category Archives: Random

Connections and digressions

Posted on March 6, 2022 by rhbblog

I posted these two pictures in a Facebook Group, Calderdale Then and Now, as I had spotted someone else’s similar post about the bad winter of 1962-3. We had returned from Nigeria for good (or so my parents thought) in … Continue reading →

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Look up

Posted on November 4, 2021 by rhbblog

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 →

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Anna’s Random Thoughts

Posted on October 7, 2020 by rhbblog

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 →

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Revisiting the past: ‘dame school’.

Posted on March 31, 2020 by rhbblog

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 →

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Belated Happy New Year!

Posted on January 13, 2020 by rhbblog

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 →

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Around the garden

Posted on May 15, 2019 by rhbblog

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 | Leave a comment

The wave

Posted on February 24, 2019 by rhbblog

A bit of phone fun.

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Galactic…

Posted on June 1, 2018 by rhbblog

Playing with phoneography…

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Still here…

Posted on March 1, 2017 by rhbblog

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!

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Random Acts of Kindness in the Great Wen

Posted on October 15, 2016 by rhbblog

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 →