One Man's Notes

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

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.

Beach detail.

The Isles of Scilly, a decade ago.

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

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

Beach life.

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.

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

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

Evening swim selfie.

Current status:

Evening on the beach.

Evening in the garden.

Early evening beach walk.

Homeschooling break in the garden.