Evening in the garden.

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

Early evening beach walk.

A surfer in the sea off Shoreham Beach.

After three months with almost no time for anything but work or homeschooling, it feels good to actually do a little work on a side project again: Ring a ring of ospreys from The Osprey Weekly



A wee visitor to our garden at night…


Homeschooling break in the garden.

An Ann rose in our garden.

Here’s one way to look at Facebook in a culture war context: the conflict is already there, Facebook is just an arms dealer.


Ming-Na Wen is indisputably awesome.


Maltese boats.

Vivid memories from a holiday to Malta very nearly 20 years ago.

Colourful boats in a harbour in Malta.Colourful Maltese boats from autumn 2000.


The view from our back garden in Dollar, Scotland, 30 years ago.

Photo by my late mother.

Looking down at Dollar in 1990, from a house in the High Street.