The ruins of Hillfoot House, near Dollar in Scotland. Photographed in 1983.

Even these ruins are gone now, apparently, replaced by a modern new house. My friends and I used to play in and around the ruin as pre-teens.

The ruin of Hillfoot House, in Dollar, Clackmanannshire, circa early 1983.

Mum, March 1983.

Ann Tinworth, out for dinner on 11th March 1983.

Yikes. I need to do better than that.

A graph from Apple Health showing my average sleep at 5 hours 50 minutes.

Well, who doesn’t?

Graffiti in a railway siding reading “I ❤️ eggs”.

Ah, who can fail to love one of these?

An a-frame backboard with “secondhand bookshop” written in chalk.

Weekly 7.30am swimming lesson whiteboard wisdom.

A whiteboard with the following written on it: “Resilience is knowing that you are the only one that has the power and responsibly to pick youself up&10;- May Holloway”

A sign of spring.

A bud forming at Nymans in Sussex.

Super rare night out for me - at the Banff Mountain Film Festival in Brighton.

The Concert Hall at the Brighton Dome, for the Banff Mountain Film Festival.

One of the Dalmatian Pelicans at WWT Arundel.

A Dalmatian pelican.

This duck is stylin’.

A scaly-sided merganser at WWT Arundel

Testing out the new coffee shop in town, Clubhouse Coffee.

Smoothie of the banana and strawberry varietyA black americano at Clubhouse Coffee in Shoreham. A pain au chocolate Vegan biscoff cakeHoneycomb brownie


Here are the small but dedicated band of protestors in their conspiratorial glory.

Anti-vaccine signs at a protest in SussexProtesters who are against the WEF and cashless payments in Shoreham. Another anti-vaccine placard in Sussex.


My paternal Shrove Tuesday duty is done.

A stack of pancakes on Pancake Day.

Friendly wee chaps.

A robin at Pulborough Brooks. Another robin at Pulborough Brooks


Evening light at RSPB Pulborough Brooks.

Warm evening light on a stand of Elm

Water level a bit on the high side, then.

Flooding near Pulborough Brooks in Sussex.

Love a bit of crema

Crema on a black americano at Victoria’s Sponge, Steyning.

Never change, Magazine Journalism MA students…

A bland date poster advertising a City Journalism student event…

Good morning from the Downs.

A lone sheep in a field up on the Sussex Downs.

Haircut achieved.

Adam Tinworth before a haircut. Adam Tinworth after a hair cut.