Low Autumn Sun on Sunday Morning

Last Sunday I got up at 6.30 to fit in a swim in the Marine Lake at Clevedon. The lake … More

Synchronized Swimming

We had our correct hats on, Clare and I. Perfectly synchronized with each other and with the view. The hat, … More

September 15th: Vobster Quay’s annual ‘Glow Swim’ and the swimmers are ready to go. Once, twice… four times round the … More

….though it would be fair to say that it is more definitively occupied at one end than the other. Sergeant … More

Originally posted on Art by Nancy Farmer:
My small and sometimes tidy studio is once more full of boxes: not only are there…

Amidst intermittent torrential showers Mother and I braved Ullswater’s choppy waters. Last time I was here, the water was a … More

Chillswim Coniston end-to-end 2016 On Saturday we swam the five and a quarter mile length of Coniston, me and about … More

Wormy is still around, but currently in favour is Catnip Dynamite, a highly bitable stuffed cloth cylinder attached to a … More

A couple of ‘kitten action’ sketches. The top left one was actually a few days ago, young wobbly-kitten-walking. Now we … More

I have an electric propagator. It is basically a plastic tray with an electric heater beneath its surface, so that … More