
My friend, Clive, checked the weather forecast during the week and announced a 24 hour window of good weather in the Lake District – was this our opportunity to go wild camping on top of Coniston Old Man? It certainly looked like it. Plans were made, food rations bought and rucksacks packed. I have to [...]

What a gloriously sunny weekend we’re having. So much so, I closed down the laptop and headed into the city’s Cathedral Quarter, making sure I parked the car under the protection of some leafy shade I found in a little side street off Lindum Terrace. From there I walked through Pottergate, turning left to head [...]

The wedding of David and Louise took place in Lincoln on the second week in June. Of course, we all know it was the wettest June for many a year, but good fortune prevailed and the bad weather held off at all the right times. Consequently, all the key moments where photographs took place outside [...]

Although the weather looked decidedly iffy today my friend, Clive, and I took a chance and strode out on local footpaths around the village of Branston. He took his iphone, the only camera he uses these days and I took my Canon G12 compact camera. Shortly after we’d left the main road in Branston, at [...]

I wasn’t sure I could make it in time for the arrival in Lincoln of the Olympic Torch Relay this evening, but I managed to complete one of my regular commercial assignments early enough to get home, change and head into Lincoln city centre. Given the traffic movement and parking restrictions, I abandoned the car in Canwick and [...]

I mentioned in my previous post that it rained in all the right places and this theme continued into the next day. Overnight the rain simply didn’t stop. No bad thing as persistent rain under canvas has a very hypnotic and soothing effect – provided your tent doesn’t leak, of course. It rained all night [...]

It did occur to me whether I was completely insane to write about visiting Wales in the rain, in the “Just For Fun” category of my blog, but as it turned out it rained in all the right places – more of that later. First, on Thursday night, my friends and I had a decision [...]