Photography

This is my new view. Sometimes the view is obscured by cloud. I always wondered what it would be like …

Big books rule! Well they did pre-Christmas. Or maybe it’s a northern thing. Out of all the big book readers …

Pick of my photos from Christmas 2011. My stepdad, after supper on Christmas Eve.

At my latest outpatient appointment (yesterday) the flesh nibbling Garra Rufa fish were still swimming around in OP Reception (see …

I took this photo about a month ago – a few days before the health dangers of fish spa treatment …

Sun sets in North West

The view out of the landing window!

Found these heads (among others) today on Preston market. Love them.

Well I finished my knitting project, and then I cut it up. Well not exactly. I’d knitted it beautifully but …

This is the brick wall outside our kitchen window. It is so beautiful when the sun hits it first thing …

For me reading books is a night-time thing. I read news or non-fiction – online mostly – during the day. …

If you’re on Twitter and you follow @binarydad (which I do) you will have noticed that he’s set up Bickr, …

I took this photo last week at Manchester Piccadilly while waiting for the train to Buxton. The train (blue, left) …

The first flag iris to flower in our garden. So beautiful. It lives at the edge of the pond (which …

Not literally what I can see from here (view across the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern, taken last October), but …

My review of Clifford Garstang‘s debut collection of short stories, In An Uncharted Country is now in the The Short …

Today is World Book Day – a celebration of books and reading. I’m reading Cormac McCarthy’s The Road (and no …