Trump just used a massive dead cat to distract from appalling US economic news.


A devastating consequence of the pandemic and lockdown: the National Trust are making over 1000 people redundant.


The current wave of newsletters are often compared to the early blogs - but most of them miss one critical element.


Sign on the equipment in the local playpark. One day, it’ll be an historical oddity blithely ignored by children for whom it’s an irrelevance.

Roll on that day.

Covid-19 warning sign on childrens' play equipment.

Beach detail.

Driftwood on Shoreham Beach.

The Isles of Scilly, a decade ago.

A bay on one of the Isles of Scilly.

An additional mask, now they’re compulsory in shops.

Adam Tinworth wearing a mask.

We get some surprisingly big ships on this stretch of the river.


Buoyant bird.

A seagull on s bouy in the river Adur

Beach life.

Various boats off Shoreham Beach, with Rampion wind farm on the horizon.

My eldest daughter loves performing. She never voluntarily passes up the opportunity to be in the limelight.

I suspect she gets it from her paternal grandmother. Here is my Mum performing in an amateur dramatics production sometime in the early 1960s.

Ann Tinworth acting in an amateur production.Ann Tinworth acting in an amateur production somewhere in north London.Ann Tinworth acting in an amateur dramatic production in the 1960s.


Darling buds of July.

Buds on a tree at Woods Mill.

Girls in the wood.

Two girls running through Woods Mill, Sussex.

Window in the canopy.

Trees seen through a canopy window at Woods Mill in Sussex.

A momento of my old life as a hotel and restaurant journalist.

A Hotelympia commemorative playe from 1996, featuring a Gary Rhodes meal.

It turns out that 1970s and 80s Lego is still exciting to today’s children…


I’m loving the way micro.blog plugins solve a few pain points I have with the platform - but which might not bother most people.


This is bleak news: Guardian announces plans to cut 180 jobs. 70 are editorial jobs. Best wishes to my friends and former students working there.


Just paid for another year of micro.blog. You’re stuck with me, folks.