It's a photographic Sunday Six this week, and it's even got a slightly Potterish angle - if, that is, you have as much of an obsession with Aberforth Dumbledore and his alleged caprine caprices as I do.

( Six Goats of Many Colours )

It's another Photo-Six this week, and one that's simultaneously rather adult and extremely childish. Rather like myself, some of you might be thinking. Nevertheless, I feel duty bound to point out that British comedy has a long history of laughing at the double entendre, tittering at bodily functions, and giggling over anything even mildly ( Read more... )

It has come to my attention that a charming but little-known science-fiction series is returning to our screens in a couple of weeks time. Rather than just sitting at home making incoherent noises about this prospect, I decided to take my anticipation and my camera out into the streets of London today, in the hopes of finding a droolworthy Time ( Read more... )

There's a meme doing the rounds about your favourite simple pleasures in life (I spotted laurus_nobilis posting it), and although I think you're meant to choose ten, I'm going to plough my own furrow as usual, and tell you about...

( Six of Life's Simple Pleasures (In Rhyme) )

Last weekend, I lost my hat by leaving it on the tube. I was a bit cheesed off about this, because it was a lovely hat, black and velvety and warm, and it had served me well for a couple of cold winters. Anyway, although the spring is theoretically on its way, it's still bloody freezing outside, so I decided to go out yesterday and buy myself a new ( Read more... )

It's almost six months since I did my original Bodice-Rippers Sunday Six and because that sort of tosh is always such a great source of giggles to me, I've been toying with the idea of a sequel. In addition, you may have heard that there's also some minor award ceremony-thingy that no one cares much about happening tonight. So I decided to yoke the ( Read more... )

Today I made my annual pilgrimage to the loveliest building in London, the Natural History Museum, to see the Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition ( Read more... )

It's February 13th tomorrow, and that means only one thing. Yes, it means that I'll be ready to represent (in the "street" sense) in honour of that little-known but entertaining international day of bad-natured festivity known as Bitter & Twisted DayIt is, of course, a much less corporate and cliché'd celebration than some others I could mention, ( Read more... )

I noticed a memey thing doing the rounds recently that took the form of an amnesty on works-in-progress. Now, as a lazy person sporadically creative soul in various fields, I too have manifold half-done bits and bobs lying around in my house, on my computer, and in my head, so I thought the least I could do was to turn these not-ready-for-primetime ( Read more... )

It's a photographic Six this week. I woke up on Saturday morning and it was a bright and sunny day, so I decided to go fishing. And no, I didn't cheat and head straight for Yo! Sushi...

( Six Fish Caught In Central London )