hike | camp | paint
**I've had to re-write this post a couple of times as events have moved faster than my speed of write-up. This walk was undertaken at the very start of March, when the "plague" referred to below had reached the UK, but had not escalated to the stage it's at now. It would be totally irresponsible … Continue reading Don't Make Me Go South of the River (Jubilee Greenway Part 2)
A grey Sunday morning at the start of February, and as if I can't get enough of the place, I'm taking my usual walk to work, or at least the first part of it, around the corner to The Narrow pub. Here set into the pavement opposite, and lying unnoticed by me for several years, … Continue reading Don’t Let Them Touch Your Vibrations (Jubilee Greenway Part 1)
The plan was hatched at the New Year Dartmoor gathering, and it was simple: the London contingent would meet at the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) for a look at the Enduring Eye exhibition of Frank Hurley's photographs from the ill-fated Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, led by Shackleton. And there may be a few beers after too. … Continue reading The London Expedition
Once again I needed to pop into London and once again it was art related. There seems to be a pattern emerging here. This time it was the Works on Paper Fair, for which I’d been sent a free ticket by Matt Forster, an "überpainter" of stylised mountain landscapes in watercolour. With this unlikely to … Continue reading Art meets Science
A deadline has been pressing on me. The Late Turner exhibition at Tate Britain is due to finish this coming weekend, and I hadn't been to see it yet, even though it had been on since September and I've not had work as an excuse. So I set about rectifying that. Whilst the visit to the Tate … Continue reading A Walk Among the Artists
I've been lucky with the amount of time I've been able to take since the summer as a break from working, but it can't last for ever, and soon work will press on me again. With this in mind, and knowing that one of the ways I keep sane when working is by doing some … Continue reading A New Series of Urban Walks