While in Chiang Mai I joined Alan, a professional photographer, for a day of photography out and about in Chiang Mai. I wanted to get away from using the automatic settings on my new dslr camera, learn a bit more about the camera and, hopefully, to get some interesting shots. I got up early and [...]
On a recent visit to Bristol, UK, we managed to visit two art exhibitions. The first was in the Bristol Museum and featured the art of Beryl Cook and the second was in the Royal West of England Academy and featured work by Damien Hurst, Elizabeth Frink, Jack Vettriano and Lisa Milroy. Beryl Cook is [...]
Valentine’s Day, the sun is shining and the sky is blue so I decided to go for a walk in the town centre at lunchtime to see how some of the shop windows had been decorated for the occasion. It seemed that love was indeed in the air ……. note the hearts on the girl’s [...]
Fran sent us all a link to a You Tube video this week (which has now been removed by its user) featuring two monks and a book - one of the monks was explaining to the other how to use a book. This reminded me of a comment a visitor made to our house a while ago [...]
