Fighting the Blues

Down the allotment, doing my own thing in my own little world. Completed my edition of Rumpelstilskin aka Crawley well ahead of schedule.

 

Halloween Horror Pop Funko #3

Photographed by the light of a single candle to add to his eerie look, here is the Reverand Kane, from the Poltergeist II movie:

Halloweeen Horror Pop Funko #2

Halloween 2026 Pop Funko #2. Photographed on top of my closed black laptop lid pushed again a demijohn of fermenting wine, which I backlit with the torchlight from another mobile phone. Shaun of the Dead.

The Gubbins at Pub on the Pond

 A more restful day today, with an evening spent down the Pub on the Pond for their weekly 2 hour quiz night.

Gubbins

Unfortunately, a milk contamination sent me home early to bed, old-Stool antihistamines and a very deep slumber, whilst the rest of the family did their best to stop our team from coming last. Which the accomplished!

Pen-Y-Fan

After a quick stop off for some chow, slurp and a skeleton, it was time to head off to Pen-Y-Fan to introduce  Amb and Si to the trials and tribulations of their first mountain climb.

 

After which, we headed to The Ancient Briton for a well-earned pint 🙂🙂🙂🙂

Cardiff IKEA

Swansea Walk with Amb and Si

My first-born and her fiance, Si, are down for the weekend. On their first full day here, we sauntered down to the beach, taking in a few parks along the way.

What started as me trying to capture a beautifully peaceful scene, ended up in me capturing the brutal reality of life in the wild:

En route, we passed this great painted van - May the Force be With You! You can see more pics of the van here.

September's Close

Well, September is nearly over and done with. All things considered, it has been a pretty good month. I kept to my creative goal for the month, which was to create and publish journals and calendars for both my See Gower and See Glastonbury websites. The journals are all available on Amazon, whilst the calendars can be ordered direct from me, via their respective websites and associated social.

Not only did I complete my September goals, I also found the time to make a great start on my October project. I am already more than half way through updating, editing and even renaming my first published novel. I have even completed the new cover design for the new Legacy Edition!

Let's  see how October progresses now...

Malvern 2026 | Day 2

The weather was more cloudy for our last dat at the Malvern Autumn Show. 

The giant vegetable display was cool to look around:

Lush

We had ourselves a little sit down in a WW2 pub in the afternoon, where the ambience was so evocative I finally created a new audio recording after I don't know how long:

A bigger spending today today, though my purchases were more than reasonably priced:

Another loph. At £7 - had no choice but to bring it home

This  pre-1939 was just a tenner!

A cool new home four Apple Snail

Stunning skies on the way home too:

Malvern Autumn Show 2026 | Day 1

Had a fantastic weekend at the Malvern Autumn Show. Didn't  purchase much there on day 1 of our visit though as I got a little waylaid by Old Rosie (again) lol.

I did buy this though:

And on our way to our our AirBNB for the evening, we pulled over to appreciate this view of Tokien and C S Lewis countryside: