Stunning skies yesterday evening.

Clouds over Shorehsm Beach in August 2020

This was a very long time ago in the Cairngorms.

Adam Tinworth, age 17, in the Cairngorms.

Pandemic pleasures: being at home enough to keep your Hotbin composter at a steady temperature of nearly 60C. 🌱


A rather busy key worker at Nymans yesterday.

A bee hard at work on a pink flower.

Lots of people using the slipway behind our house today.

Boaters and SUPers waiting to launch from a slipway.

This sunflower has self-seeded from below our bird feeder. What a lovely surprise.

A sunflower in the back garden.

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…


Evening swim selfie.

Adam Tinworth on Shoreham Beach