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Thursday 16 December 2021

A key that fits

I finally have a key to my writing bureax :)


 

Good Morning

 Early Sunday Morning 


Tuesday 14 December 2021

Monday 13 December 2021

Chilling after my jab

Revering from my booster jab by chilling by the Christmas tree with a good old crimbo ghost story :)


Thursday 9 December 2021

Hectic Times...

December 09, 2021

It's been a bit hectic these last few weeks. Started my new job (finally got my promotion) and there's a lot for me to learn during the 12 week's of training. Still, I finally managed to put pen to paper last night ans crack on with some creative work. Unfortunately, I jumped ahead and worked on a future novel, Pyewacket, instead of completing my current work-in-progress, Solstice. Still, it felt good to be writing again.


Friday 3 December 2021

Linocut Ideas #1

I am getting a linocut kit for Christmas. To prepare, I started designing some images for my first print...


Sunday 14 November 2021

Before the Chop

The entrance to Whiteford Burrow, the Gower Peninsula

I took a weekend constitutional down Whiteford Burrows last weekend - my favourite place on  the whole of the magnificent Gower Peninsula. My mission - to photograph the pine woodland there, much of which is now facing the chop!


Chilling amongst the trees, whose death knell has been sounded


The 16,000 step (thanks Fitbit) walk was something of a salutary experience, given that a large number of the trees I wandered amongst were going to be killed, some of them as soon as the following day!








Woodland at Whiteford Point

Chilling, Whiteford







Whiteford offers one of the quietest and more remote walks on the whole of the Gower Peninsula. And its pine trees, which have been a feature of this landscape here for a century, have been a much-loved  aspect of this area. So much so, in fact, that I have already made plans to have my ashes scattered amongst the trees here when my number is finally called. And although there appears to be sound ecological reasons for their decimation, I could not help but feel rather downhearted as I wandered amongst their soon-to-be decimated number.

Owl pellet, Whiteford Woods


Anyway, I will post more photos of the Whiteford's atmospheric woodland for posterity before the felling begins over on my Explore Gower website. {I will update this post with a link to that Explore Gower page when it goes live}....

Snap, Whiteford

 


Monday 1 November 2021