It has been a month since I have properly posted on my blog and my Instagram has also been very sporadic with only 4 posts since the 1st of June which is less than what I usually put out in 10 days! Thankfully my followers seem to have stuck with me which was down…

If you have seen “Four Weddings and a Funeral” OR love poetry, you will invariably know the poem “Funeral Blues” by W.H Auden. Those clocks have now stopped for me, with the passing of my beloved Mum. This post isn’t to talk too much about her death, but to let out some of my…

Being on Social Media has given me multiple adventures and opportunities over the past eight/nine years. One of the most wonderful of things to happen has been when artists and creators make contact and tell me they have painted, sketched or created a caricature of some of my photographs. Sometimes this has been out…

As many of you know, my life has completely changed virtually overnight with the decline in health of my Mum. This means that I am caring for her 24 hours a day and of course, this has affected both my mental health and the capacity to write as much as I would like to…