January 9th 2011

Well, here we are. Send for a bugle, it’s the Last Post. Couldn’t decide which image to use, so some friends (you know who you are!) suggested this and very […]

January 8th 2011

It has been a difficult week. On 28th December 2010, one of my younger son’s friends passed away unexpectedly aged 24. As you can imagine my son and his friends […]

January 7th 2011

This is a photograph of my automata. I have been collecting them for years from places such as the Cabaret Mechanical Theatre and Dansel Gallery in Dorset. They are made […]

January 6th 2011

This is who Milo and I met on our walk today. Milo couldn’t decide if the horse was a large version of him or he was a small version of […]

January 5th 2011

    I glanced out tof the kitchen window and spotted half a dozen or so ducks sitting on the riverbank opposite my garden. They were all standing in a […]

January 4th 2011

A sure remedy for the post-festivity, rubbish weather, January blues. The dose to be adjusted to personal taste and accompanied by a really good movie and a warm dog. Worked […]

January 3rd 2011

When I first started to bind books, I bought leather pieces from Falkiners (now Shepherds) – my favourite place for bookbinding supplies. More recently, I discovered that Pittards in Yeovil, […]

January 2nd 2011

I wish that this blog had sound effects, you would be able to hear Milo snoring loudly. His legs keep twitching – he must be dreaming. Let sleeping dogs lie…

January 1st 2011

Well, you might think that for the first post of the year (and counting down to the end of the blog) that the images I post will be momentous, life […]

December 31st 2010

If I had started this project on New Year’s Day as I was supposed to, this would be my last post. As it is, it is number 356, so I […]

December 30th 2010

December 29th 2010

December 28th 2010

Almost missed posting this tonight, totally absorbed watching the cricket in Australia (hurrah for us!) Now we have retained the Ashes, I can go to bed and have an early […]

December 27th 2010

Ten minutes or so after yesterday’s sunrise, this is what the same view looked like. Still, beautiful and quite eerie. It came out pretty well for an iPhone shot.  I’m […]

December 26th 2010

We spent Christmas Day with friends in Somerset. I was woken this morning by a strange glow shining through the blinds in the bedroom. I looked out and watched a […]

December 25th 2010

Happy Christmas!