With apologies to Philip Larkin
I’m a bit off photography at the moment, so I’ve turned to poetry (of sorts). So with apologies to Philip Larkin’s This Be the Verse, here it is: They fuck you up, these snoring men They may not mean...
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Silence
The words became unclear a while ago; the pictures feel inadequate now. For a little while I may be content with silence.
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Digging up my roots
Jack and Margaret Short These are my paternal grandparents. I didn’t know them very well and don’t have many memories of them, because they died when I was about seven years old. It’s a sad story – my...
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Life is what happens when you’re making other plans
Life is what happens while you’re busy making other plans, sang John Lennon, and that’s been amply proven this week. We finally had our offer on a house accepted on Saturday, only for Geoff to lose...
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Learning log blues
Reaching for the sky – reflection in fish pond, Cambridge Botanical Gardens I have very mixed emotions about the whole concept of educating people in art, and they’re escaping like worms from a can as...
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My Buddha’s wearing a hat
My Buddha has acquired a hat! Takes away from his dignity a bit. Snow has been falling here on and off for the last week. We had a serious dump of it last Friday and Saturday, with about six inches...
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So where do I go from here, I wonder?
The results of my assessment are in, and they’re not good. I’m too embarrassed to give the mark here, but let’s just say that, while it’s a clear pass, it’s at the low end of average. The mark is...
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My life as a tree
This is not a post about photography as such, although photography does come into it indirectly, but if you’re only here for the pictures you might want to skip this one and come back when normal...
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Chagall, and how looking at art can make you feel a whole lot better
I and the village – Marc Chagall, 1911, oil on canvas It’s been a tense couple of weeks, with one big up and an awful lot of downs. The big up is that Geoff has got a job – yeehah! One of the downs is...
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On letting your spouse choose your house
Finally, finally, we found somewhere to live and, oh, the relief. We’d got to the stage where we’d seen almost every possible property on the market, and either they weren’t available to us because of...
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Where have you been?
Public art at Brayford Basin, Lincoln I may well be flattering myself that anyone at all is asking themselves where I’ve been, but I’m going to tell you anyway. Here’s the short version: the removal...
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‘Where or what is home?’ is a question that’s been occupying me for some time - for obvious reasons – so when I came across this TED talk by Pico Iyer I stopped everything to watch it. If the question...
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Last year’s words belong to last year’s language
*For last year’s words belong to last year’s language, and next year’s words await another voice. T.S. Eliot I’ve lost my way, I really have, but I’m finding it again, and discovering that it isn’t...
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Bed and breakfast, anyone?
Our second living room, or snug, with its woodburner stove I’m behind with my blog posts this week, partly due to a nasty cold but also because I’ve been sorting out a new venture. You may have heard...
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Answers are everywhere
Have you heard of Street Wisdom? It’s a non-profit venture that shows people how to use the streets around them to get intuitive answers to questions about their lives. ‘It’s a simple idea, based on...
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Filling the well
I’ve struggled to write anything this week, because I simply can’t write in the way I usually do. If I’m to write anything at all, then it has to be about what’s going on for me right now, and that...
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Why I haven’t been out much, lately
In the last month, our Airbnb bookings have really taken off. We’re in the middle, right now, of more than a fortnight’s worth of back to back bookings and that, plus my casual job in the local...
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Studying photography: part two – what worked
I got rather gloomy after writing the last post. I’d forgotten how conflicted I was about studying degree level photography, how it felt so constraining, and how I constantly had the sensation of...
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Maria’s book
The book – I took the photo after two large glasses of wine, in a hurry, and in low light, and yes, there is camera movement – happens to us all sometimes! When we first moved to this area we rented a...
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A visual life
This week I’ve been inspired by Kim Manley Ort’s post, A Visual CV, to have a go myself. There are ten questions, to be answered visually, without words. I’ve found it surprisingly difficult. The...
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