well, i'm hoping to make it fairly far north at some point... and it might be soon, or it might not be quite so soon... but ether way i would like to be (and i am leglaly required to be) prepared. i need to acquire snow chains for lurch, and not having much experience in this matter am asking for info/advice/input/experiences ( Read more... )

kinda two aspects to my request for help/advice/info/opinions here ( Read more... )

that's the title of the painting that lends its image to this user icon... i didn't come here to write about that, but suddenly i find that my mind turns for a moment from a post about weather forecasts and practicalities...and towards the midsummer sunrise. i'm not going to wait up for it (tho momentarily tempted).. nor do i imagine i'll wake ( Read more... )

i have uploaded some photographs i took while travelling in scotland in april and may to flickr - here!

"the very last house stood all by itself under a dark green wall of fir-trees, and here the wild country really began. snufkin walked faster and faster straight into the forest. then the door of the last house opened a chink and a very old voice cried : 'where are you off to ( Read more... )

from notes scribbled on scrap paper, an account of a small summer sortie to suffolk ( Read more... )

and mid this month i got along to one of the meetings of enfield art circle ( Read more... )

travelling home from polyday, driving parallel with the river just south of it between blackfriars and london bridge, i stopped for red traffic lights at the corner with borough station. a young, and o-so-healthy!, -looking fox ran across the road, down into the underground station, back up out of the underground station, and back across the road ( Read more... )

from scotland i made my way south into the lake district... ( Read more... )

the wind blows leaves swirling across the tarmac, licking the surface like flames.