Hello and welcome to October's Photo Challenge. Yes, yes, yes, it's my Autumn Almanac. Whether you're of the opinion that this most beautifu...

Alt: Herbert Garrison: It's So Simple And Yet Genius

I went to see a delightful little film yesterday; very idiosyncratic, very quirky. Imagine Bill Forsyth had directed The Wicker Man and you'...

H ello and welcome to September's edition of Photo Challenge. The brief was very simple: Brought to you by the latter ' H' . I was trying t...

After my initial post on this most bodacious genre of street art I'd like to post some of the photos you've been sending me. This is turnin...

Hello and welcome to July's Photo Challenge - well over half way thru our fourth year. I'm a couple of days late this month as I've just ret...

One of the reasons I stepped away from my local book club was because I found it was taking up time I then no longer had to read my own, eve...

I saw Backrooms last week. What a film. James had already seen it a couple of days earlier and said ''It's made for you, dad.'' It's a horro...

By the mid-90s the UK was fast running out of phone numbers. The telephone exchanges couldn't cope. Something had to be done. So one day a t...

The first entry in the Nottingham A-Z is Aaron Close in Wilford NG2; the last is Zulu Road in Basford NG7. Guess where I'm walking on Sunday...

(Not) all my own work That splash The first canvas of the year The brushes came out for the first time this year. But feeling l...

It all started in 2010; and by 'it' I mean this blog

April 2022 "The only thing that you abolutely have to know, is the location of the library." So said Albert Einstein. They knocked our local...