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…

Two children wearing colorful hats and clothes are sitting on a blanket outdoors, playing with LEGO pieces spread out in front of them.

Evening swim selfie.

Adam Tinworth on Shoreham Beach

Current status:

A cluttered desk features a bottle of whiskey, a glass, a notebook with Clouds Willing II written on it, some onions, and a heavy-duty wrench placed in front of a computer keyboard and mouse.

Evening on the beach.

The Shoreham Beach boardwalk, looking towards BrightonShoreham Beach, with Rampion windfarm in the background.

Evening in the garden.

A cloudbank over a tree in a Shoreham Beach back garden.