I’m nursing cracked ribs at the moment which has curtailed my extraordinary work on building our extension. It is eye-opening to go from peak physical fitness to ambling and shuffling based on a momentary loss of concentration. Of all the things I have done during this build which has included digging and barrowing out 72 […]
Allotment success beats the building blues
There is nothing more forlorn than a building site put on hold where the builder has been laid off owing to third party intransigence and general dilatoriness. Much of my waking hours have been spent of late hand digging and barrowing 52 tons of earth, sand and rubble into skips. Progress has only stopped because […]
Have I cured myself?
Hot from the the run down to Cornwall and back I was eager to get out with the Ebony as a High had settled over the East. Previously I had reported the sighting of a Kingfisher as I made some large format work on 25th August and as a result had spent several hours getting […]
Suffering for art’s sake
Today, I’m reminded of why I choose to make most of my landscape work during the Winter months. I was up and out at an ungodly hour yesterday to catch the weeping darkness turn to light. This was an unnecessary but necessary quest. Last August Bank Holiday Monday I was up and out at a […]
The early bird gets the worm
With a Bank Holiday weekend fast approaching with a sequence of depressions hurtling like a magnet towards to the UK, the forecast for this morning was nigh on perfect for some large format work but, and there always is a but, low tide was not due at Cattawade Creek until 0830. The forecast for Monday […]
The sands of time. 21st Century meets Pliocene
A few months back Mrs O and I trundled up to our local beach resort of choice – Southwold. Now, apart from knitting and stuff Mrs O likes nothing better than books so she looks forward to ‘Ways with Words’. It usually coincides with Remembrance Sunday and weather permitting (it did not in 2015) I […]
Place and Placement
Well now, I was recharging spiritual batteries in Southwold yesterday as at least they are batteries that I can recharge unlike the replacements for my recently stolen ones that are proving difficult to obtain. Enough of that. I took a leisurely stroll along the promenade towards the pier whilst Mrs O was learning all about […]
Waiting, just waiting
We spend much of our lives waiting. Waiting for buses, trains, the light to change, for something to happen like the lights going out on the grid of an F1 race and waiting for the end of whatever it is we have been waiting for. I certainly spend more time than I ought to waiting […]
Well, I’d never be a tailor with stitching like that
I know my eyes were weary yesterday after a Thursday starting at 05:30 in St Ives and finishing at 05:30 in Ipswich on Friday but what poor stitching in that 10 minutes after sunrise image! I noticed it only when I zoomed to full screen much later on. I had half expected some issues especially […]
Warm up act
Often, in the past whilst attending gig there has always been an emerging band or solo artist supporting the main act. Yesterday I attended the AGM of the Contemporary Group of the RPS. It was held at the Art Workers Guild and I was billed to appear along with Fergus Heron to talk about […]