Lughnasadh (Lammas) has arrived. Lughnasadh is a Gaelic festival, while Lammas is Anglo Saxon/Christian. Although distinctly different festivals, they both commonly signify the partaking of the first fruits of the year’s harvest Bread Products Lammas means “loaf mass”, which fits in well with my recent attempts at making sourdough. I know… I know… it was …
While the tech industry compels us to offhand our creativity to machines, I am going against the grain and sketching. Inspirations The kick up the bum came via a local artist named Ritchard, who currently has an exhibition running at The Goat Gallery. He showed me one of his sketchbooks he carried around. When he’s …
February can feel like a funny month. Its shorter, changeable length gives the impression whoever was making up the months tried to make the best of a slightly botched job. The weather is usually foul, this year opting for the three W’s: warm, wet, windy. However, the days are lengthening. The spring bulbs are pushing …
Photography was my first real creative pursuit. Most things had turned digital by the time I got the bug. The most impactful memory of film photography was the time my dad and sister turned the garage into a temporary darkroom and some chemicals from that ended up eating into my body board. Teenage me was …
Reconnecting with nature through creativity “The wet young beeches were undergoing amputations, bruises, cripplings, and harsh lacerations, from which the wasting sap would bleed for many a day to come, and which would leave scars visible till the day of their burning. Each stem was wrenched at the root, where it moved like a bone …
Independence Day Hello Boys GIFfrom Independence Day GIFs I’m Back! I’ve done a Baggin’s and disappeared only to reappear again sometime later. There was a journey, adventure, peril, fear and enough anxiety to last me quite some time. In short: I moved house. As you may know, the process of moving home is fraught with …
The Moor The moor is a human landscape. Another part of the agricultural desert normally associated with fields the size of football stadiums, stripped of the true natural world. We often call the moors wild places, but they are far from it. For thousands of years, the human hand has cleaved away Britain’s temperate rainforests …