The posts talking about those ways of escape!
Part of learning is screwing up. Walking, talking. It all goes wrong initially. For me, sometimes it still does, thanks to MS, but let’s leave that there. This is about painting and what I have learnt from completely screwing up…
2026 has started with a blanket of snow in the Netherlands. Quite unlike any I have seen, I think. Not in terms of depth but more persistence. This layer of snow will be staying for a short while. Nothing in…
So that was 2025. A small word on 2026. No targets or anything like that. More about how I would like to try to live my life. For this year at least. Less a set of resolutions. More a statement…
Painting is giving me some kind of relief. A bit of peace of mind. As well as enjoying it I am also getting the urge to experiment a little bit more although I am absolutely not trying to be some…
I need to be honest. I mention acceptance quite a lot, but am I good at it? No, I am pretty crap actually. People tell me it is resilience but it is not. It is stubborn pig-headedness. It can be…
Another self-indulgent series of posts, this time on songs that I like and why. The first will be I Will Dare by the Replacements. I really don’t know when I heard I Will Dare for the first time. It was…
The next in a set of occasional posts in a series ‘For the Love Of…’ Basically I will just write about something I like a lot. Nothing more than that! This one will cover films. Or movies. Whatever you want. The first trip…
Familiarity can be comforting, gives you peace of mind. So this year we are back in Normandy, a place we have been to twice before in the same house. I have written of it before, fearing it would be overrun…
I am a late and clumsy arrival to the world of art. Indeed, what I do is probably art in the loosest possible sense! I don’t pretend they are great works and my early efforts are as amateurish as amateurish…
It is a real joy to write a post that is just about riding a bike. Yes, there were challenges that were caused by my condition. Shall I tell you about them? No, not this time. This is just a…