My view on life

Well, what a strange few months we’ve had in terms of the weather. Before the first week in May, we’d had some 8 weeks of blue skies and sun and temperatures more fitting to mid-July. However, May has been wet and cold for some of the time. The Spring bank Holiday, held on the last [...]

I’m planning a trip to the Outer Hebrides in June. Ever since I was at school and heard names such as “Tiree” and “Bencecula”, I’ve often wondered what they are like to visit. In my pre-holiday planning,

I’ve already leant many things - one being that it;s a long way from mainland Scotland! I’ve a [...]

I rather foolishly offered to photograph the wedding of my good friend Claire and her fiancee Tony at their forthcoming wedding in August this year, to be held at the magnificent setting of Milton Abbey in Dorset; I’m already starting to panic!

It was once a Benedictine Abbey of the 14th & 15th century, in [...]

As I approach my 57th birthday next week, I’m looking back to see what major achievemnts I’ve done this year. Apart from accumulationg extortiate fines for the late return of library books, probably the most significant achievement is completion of my 30 Year Plan.
When I was a mere boy of 27, I decided to [...]

For around the past two months, I’ve been gazing out of my office window at the Mad House, looking at the glorious sunny weather and thinking about my spring holiday around the north Somerset coast, the moorlands of Exmoor and the fabulous Quantock Hills. Needless to say, the weather broke soon into the holiday and [...]