It has been a bit of a chequered week

I thought it had been quite a long time since I did anything with glasses (tumblers not spectacles!) . I remember coming across some rather clever pictures with glasses. Apart from the balancing… Continue reading

And look what appeared!

Cold nights – sunny days. I rather assumed it would be a bit early to see much in the way of activity from the moth population. My moth trap is not what one… Continue reading

Who watches the watchers?

From ancient Greece in the time of Plato’s Republic, through Latin poems of Juvenal to Star Trek this question has persisted. But this week Ifotophilia has a crack at an answer – and… Continue reading

Just being

These days I feel we appear to be afraid of clutter, splatter and untidiness. The past is indeed a foreign country, but should we be obsessed by the need to hide it, rebuild… Continue reading

Mind the road ‘cos you might get squashed

“Minding roads” was part of my road safety training as a youngster and is a piece of advice I am attempting to pass on to some of the local toad population. You’ve got… Continue reading

Careful what you touch it could be hot!

Some of my regular readers may remember about two years ago I visited Fransham Forge – a modern craft forge in the centre of Norfolk; some seven or eight miles from Dereham. I… Continue reading

NSPCB

You don’t recognize it – hardly surprising I suppose because I only just made it up. It’s going to be the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Boats. Much as I… Continue reading

It sort of marks the beginning

In the days when I had a real job instead of that as an itinerant photographer, I used to cycle past one house on my way to work each morning where the owners… Continue reading

Well seasoned and not well seasoned

Last week the old project manager and I thought we might go and have a look at a really remarkable piece of woodland about four miles east of Fakenham, just off the main… Continue reading

Farmers don’t really plough these days

That’s what I was told. Hmm! Not sure I agree. This chap certainly doesn’t and I’m sure if the horses had a vote they wouldn’t either. And what about Plough Monday …or do… Continue reading