Showing posts with label Zines. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Zines. Show all posts

24 July 2026

Ch-ch-ch Changes

As mentioned in my previous post, I think its time to make some changes.  I am in my 60s now - time to discard some belongings that I no longer have need or space for and to shake off old habits and activities that aren't really bringing me as much joy as they. I need crack on with matters that hold more interesting prospect going forward. 

Whilst I have lapsed in my creative work recently, I started the year rather strongly.  2026 has delivered me 3 decent websites just waiting for me to spark to life thank to the work I put in during the first four months of the year - See Gower, See Swansea and See Glastonbury. These 3 sites will draw much of my attention from September. I really want to focus on adding more information and interest to these websites and get the fb and instagram pages for them more text-heavy. I've already made a start on See Glastonbury, adding written content to many of its images . I will be devoting my free time to bringing See Gower and See Swansea up to the content standard I feel is already taking good shape on See Glastonbury. The small, written, posts will then be used to drive traffic to their social media satellites. Work on this will commence this coming September. 

Whilst I have already laid much of the background work on the web gallery shops for these sites, I still haven't tied up all the loose ends on these yet. What I have promised myself is that all 3 galleries will be public-ready by the end of the year - with the first item on each shop site being a respective 2027 calendar. 

My fiction writing is taking up far less of my time and interest of late - the demise of my drive in this department most probably a result of now having an office job where I literally write for a living. By the time I clock off my paid employment, my interest in continuing writing page upon page in my own time has deteriorated. Whilst I am happy to let the rest of the year play out with no new fiction published, if the desire to produce a new book before 2026 resurges, it will probably be the reworking/update of one of my old photo-zines. we'll see...

5 June 2026

GnS3 - The Final Edition

Well, here it is - my 3rd and final Guy N Smith zine. This one was a bit of a nightmare to edit an I must thank  Hal C F Astell for his kind offer to prof-read the whole book. 

3 March 2026

8 Week Projects...

Starting work on an update on Hand (not) in Glove zine. I have set askde March and Apeil of this year to get this re-pulished, GNS3 pulblished and getvas much work of See Glastonbury done as possible.  The x3 big project should keep me busy enough over the next couple of months ... 

10 February 2026

Your Truly...


This week I will be mostly working on my Shell Island write-up for GNS3...

8 February 2026

Crab Harvest

Enjoing the attic rocking chair as I sort out the final edit of my GNS fanfic story - Crab Harvest:

3 October 2025

Lego Horror Movie 8

An easy one this week. Can you name the horror film from these two lego pics?



30 September 2025

Touting...

Just 12 weeks left for everone to get their crab related content in for the next GNS zine. The less I receive, the more I will have to produce myself lol. Here I am, already busy on my crab ghost story:

21 September 2025

Lego Horror Movie 7

Another lego recreation of a scene of one of my favourite horror films. Can you guess this one?


20 September 2025

Lego Horror Movie 6

Can you work out the horror movie I have reproduced here in Lego?

14 September 2025

Lego Movie Horror 5

Finally got this scene dun'n'dusted. Can you guess what movie this Lego scene respresents:

6 September 2025

Lego Movie Mock Up 4

Can you guess the movie this Lego version scene is representing?


How many photo-questions will next year's, as yet unamed, Lego horror zine have? I hear no-one ask. Well, whilst I have set myself an upper limit of 100, I will probably settle with a much lower number. I am just going to see how many constructions I have made by the time I need to get the zine published for Halloween 2027...

4 September 2025

Lego Horror Move Mock Up 3

Well, this should be one of my easier Lego mock up of scenes from horror films. Can you guess the movie?

20 August 2025

Avalon 2 86/100

This was a bit of technical challenge to get published. But, finally, on day 86 of my 100 day challenge, Avalon 2 has been published. You can buy yourself a copy here.

13 August 2025

Editing Gower Beaches

 Continuing work ediditing my Gower Beaches book...


8 August 2025

Avalon 2: Day 74/100

Continuing work on the final edits of my second Glastonbury zine.

6 August 2025

Avalon 2 - Day 72 /100

My proof for Avalon 2 ~ The Glastonbury Zine arrived this evening. As anticipated, there are a few issues I need to address, but I am still hopeful of getting the zine published over the coming weekend:




28 July 2025

Anxiety Dreams

Whilst things have been going well in my day life lately, my dreams seem determined to balance things out by streaming all kinds of anxiety-provoking scenarios  to ruin my nights.

Yesterday was stressful. Editing videos with a new piece of software and trying to format Avalon 2 ready for publication has been a royal pain in the bum. Grrrrr...

Good newscin my office job though. Hybrid home working has finally been accepted for our department. Its on a 40/60 split though, which equates to x2 days a week working from home and x3 days working at the office, but its a big step in the right direction for as I am really struggling having to go in for five day stretches each week, and my annual leave can be counted on the fingers of one hand. And it doesn't renew until next March!

Anyway, I will close this post with a pic of something that caught my eye as soon as I woke up this morning:



22 July 2025

Avalon 2 | 57/ 100

Having moved to quite a challenging writing department for my day job has made my evening creative writing and project wore more problematic as I am mentally exhausted by the time I get home each evening. That said, I am soldering on and keeping ahead of my deadlines .

16 July 2025

Avalon 51/100


Another much-needed day off work. Spent much of it catching up with my Avalon zine. An end of July completion date is now back on the cards... 🙂

14 July 2025

Avalon 49/100

After a 3-day weekend largely spent reading, it is time to catch up on my Avalon zine.