I was hoping my cooking calamity of tea time today, where I ran out of gas half way through cooking wasn’t an omen of sorts.. I need not have worried; A superb show. Loved it to bits! It has it all. Really well done – acting, timing, the look and sound. Grade A five star. We had wet weather all… Read more →
We’ve moved our camp up to the crew camping area, ‘back stage’ at the abbey. This is the view from our tent. As I type this I can hear the second dress rehearsal in full swing. What a fantastic privalage it is to be immersed in this world. The fine tuning of music has been the soundtrack to our afternoon…. Read more →
Having a morning of catching up with domestic duties. I’ve just put a load of washing in to the washeteria in Cardigan and have popped down to Pendre Art for a cup of tea whilst I wait. Nice little spot for watching the world go by. Couple of nice bits of painting to to look at. Other planned activity includes… Read more →
This is one of those blogs that is a bit of a chore – or at least starting it is. Like most things though, once begun, it’s half done. The reason for my reticence is down to a drained me. We’ve just had a brilliant evening, hosting a BBQ at our campsite for the cast and crew of the play…. Read more →
Rehearsals for the Abbey Shakespeare Players production of A Mid-Summer Night’s Dream are at the spit and polish stage. I bobbed down today and caught a few scenes at the incredible ruins of St. Dogmaels Abbey that have made up the stage for this production for over quarter of a century. The cast – a lot of whom have grown… Read more →
We’re at Poppit Sands near St. Dogmaels / Cardigan in West Wales. Cracking spot and I’m pleased that we’ve got one of my fave spots on the whole campsite affording amazing vistas across Cardigan Bay and Cardigan Island. The picture above is a quick snap of Felix making dinner just now. We had a brief visit from our friends who… Read more →
Tomorrow, we’re going off the grid. We’re leaving behind things like running water, plug sockets, and tarmac. I’ve been thinking about this adventure for some time, in light of the fact I’ve committed to doing a “blog, every day, this year” (so far, so good). We’re going to a camp out on a beach called Poppet Sands, near Cardigan in… Read more →
As far as social networking goes, I’d say my update frequency is above average. I’m active on the big three (twitter, facebook and google+) and dip my toes into all the others from time to time to see what’s new. I tend to sign up for everything, as soon as I hear about it (mainly so I can secure the… Read more →
Inventor, founder of PayPal, SpaceX and Tesler Motors is up to something. If you don’t know who Elon is but have seen Iron Man, think Tony Stark. He’s an inventor who actually gets stuff off the ground, literally. He’s a geek who goes beyond the computer and actually makes real stuff – like cars and spaceships and possibly soon, an… Read more →
I went our for a couple of rounds tonight with my way better than me at disc golf buddy. I was on form (even though I say so myself) as got round the 9 holes in 33 ‘smashing’ my previous nrear 7 year old PB of 34. The second round… not so hot. A cracking way to spend a beautiful… Read more →
I was lucky enough to be able to enjoy an afternoon in a pub today. Eirene (my lovely, and very tolerant wife) took care of everything else whilst I tottered off to drink Guinness and watch The Ashes in HD. We (my mate ‘Skip’ (so called thank’s to a seasons’ cricket team captaincy at The Blues Bar (center of the… Read more →
I am in Hebden Bridge, well I’m on a Terrence overlooking the valleys at a golf club above the town. Been shooting many many photos. This image was part of an exhibition at the Town Hall done by a local primary school. It is approximately the best thing ever.
Here’s a photo I took the other day using a film camera in a backwater of a town called Earby, just over the border from Yorkshire into Lancashire. Its of a hapless patch of green growing amidst an sea of tarmac. An oasis of vegetation. The adversity of life growing out of a chink in the armour. An ecosphere. An… Read more →
A friend of mine, who likes my photography, wants to me do what I do (photo-wise), at his wedding this weekend. I’ve just been plotting my kit list. There’s basically the kit photographed above, (plus my trusty LC-A ) and a bunch of old school 35mm point and shoots that we got off eBay. We’ve packed each of these in… Read more →
I’ve often joked in meetings about how some ideas are a bit ‘pie in the sky’. An example that I’ve jokingly referenced in such conversations (as a benchmark of the particularly untenable) would be ‘Smell-o-Vision’. The mainstream technology we’ve got got readily available to us today encompasses all other senses, apart from smell… but perhaps, not for long. For the… Read more →
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