My first day of my first NaNo (#NaNoWriMo2016) and NaBloPoMo and I am utterly and totally exhausted. I’d like to say it was because the phantom pen has been working a long shift to get a good start to the…
Just realised I should have had a Halloween one in there for today - there are enough cobwebs, pumpkins and heaven knows what festooning the steps and railings of SW3. Much of October has been dedicated to finding prompts and…
Where have you been? It’s alright we know where you’ve been. I was excited to be at the opening of Eyes-On 2016, the European Month of Photography in Vienna. The opening show was Looking for the Clouds: Contemporary Photography in…
The details of my own kleine Ausstellung were finalised over Sekt at Café Ritter. #excited Wir sind am Ziel Where? Sixta, Schönbrunnerstraße 21, 1050 Wien When? 25 November – 30. November What time? 18.00 – 22.00 (closed Monday; Ruhetag Montag)…
Fab evening at the Horse Hospital. Organized by Travis Elborough, starring Geoff Nicholson and friends. As I embark on the great novelling escapade, I thought I would pick the brains of the novelists around the table for useful tips on…
Great weekend on Peter Fraser’s Beyond the Surface workshop. An illuminating and interesting approach to finding your inner photographer, but I'm saying nothing further as it would contain a spoiler for any of you planning on taking this workshop when…
Mr Gates snapping the IPE. Fabulous show including some really unusual work. Unlike my photo, there are no clichés in this exhibition. If you didn’t get the chance to catch it in London, don’t fret for there are plenty of…
Enough messing around with stationery, playlists and excuses ... it’s time to get serious about this if I’m going to start and finish a novel in thirty days. Tonight I’ll mainly be character building. Despite the picture, this will not…
With twenty-three days to go until the start of The Phantom Pen, today has seen the novelling action move into a higher gear. I’ve not only done some online shopping (essential books, five reams of paper and a jumbo box…
I’ve pledged to do it … How many times have you read a novel, tossed it aside in disgust and muttered “I could do much better than that”? So why don’t you? Because it’s not as easy as it looks?…
Back with a new look! Having had a reflective summer, I've realised that my relationship with my photography has much more to do with the story behind the pictures, the accompanying adventures and social observation, than it has to do…
One of the highlights of the summer was when Mister Mac, Nick, Wilcey and I spent a few days together in Rust-am-See, a quaint medieval town on the lake in Burgenland. The region is renowned for its wine and we…
I’ve been in a bit of a fog for the last six months. I still can’t believe that Chap has shuffled off the mortal coil and how it has hit me much harder than I thought it would. The language…