by Patrick | Mar 7, 2024 | Design, education, Environment, Lifestyle, photography, Travel
The only town in Britain whose name ends in an exclamation mark sits on the North Devon coast. Nearby is the beautiful little town of Bideford, perhaps one of the most beautiful places I have visited in recent years. It was here in the 19th century that the novel...
by Patrick | Mar 1, 2024 | art, Environment, Lifestyle, photography, Travel, wilderness
As the rain continues, one commentator remarked that “Alfriston is afloat”. Flooding from the Cuckmere is commonplace around the village and its church, the ‘Cathedral of the South Downs’, and only increases as the Environment Agency allows the sea defences at the...
by Patrick | Dec 20, 2023 | Design, Environment, Lifestyle, photography, Remembrance, Travel
Why do I go cruising? This was only my second cruise, and my partner has booked a third, to Iceland. So why? I spent nearly 20 years driving thousands of miles through Europe, Southern Africa and the States reviewing hotels for my online magazine, after a previous 20...
by Patrick | Dec 11, 2023 | art as language, Environment, Garden, Lifestyle, photography
Once Upon a Time there was a writer of fairy tales, Hands Christian Andiscat. Known as the ‘whether-man’, every day he would emerge from beneath his warm bedding and wrapped in his dressing gown Hans would sally forth into the garden where he would try to feel whether...
by Patrick | Oct 18, 2023 | acrylicpainting, art, art as language, Design, drawing, Environment, Lifestyle, painting, photography
It’s where the past is hit by the future. The past is sedimentary and igneous rocks that formed the earth; the future is the waves that smash onto them loaded with shingle driven by sun, the moon, winds and tides, the sea reputedly where life started. Man...
by Patrick | Sep 4, 2023 | art, art as language, drawing, Environment, Lifestyle, painting, photography
Merlyn spelt with y not with an i. Yet what magic do you weave as English Merlins do. Time too weaves its magic, and meeting after over 50 years was a strange dislocation of the time/space continuum. Whilst I have come across you in the professional world as a name it...
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