by Patrick | Jul 2, 2025 | art, Design, education, Environment, Garden, Lifestyle, photography, Travel
Many wail about declining numbers of working people, using it to justify the invasion of ill-educated, frequently low IQ, predominantly male migrant workers to provide the labour they think we need, flying in the face of the evidence that automation and new working...
by Patrick | Jun 10, 2025 | Design, Lifestyle, Remembrance, Uncategorized
“OMG, I feel like such a fool, but it’s my very first time, so I just set it up on my own without telling anyone. And to cap it all, I’ve forgotten the password.” JK Rowling when locked out of her new website We’ve all been there. Bill Gates has made himself one...
by Patrick | May 20, 2025 | acrylicpainting, art, Environment, Garden, Lifestyle, painting, photography, Steps
The grid paintings dominated my artistic output for many years, symbolic of the systems and structures our governments put in place to control us, the colour breaking free of the grid’s constraints. Almost the last of these was the Brexit Daisy (now in a private...
by Patrick | Apr 30, 2025 | art, education, Garden, Lifestyle, painting, photography, Remembrance
This feels like summer. The summer of 68/69? It was never about the music for me. Corsham, art college, was all about the environment, down to spending a night sleeping up a tree in the grounds of the Court after a row with Geoff Turpin, who’d given up sleeping in...
by Patrick | Apr 8, 2025 | acrylicpainting, art, art as language, BRotS, drawing, Environment, Lifestyle, painting, photography
In an earlier essay on here I wrote about ‘Following in Slaters Footsteps’ which may have been seen to imply I copy what he did. That would not be terribly creative would it? No, I follow his footsteps as he walked Seaford and the Cuckmere from where he lived, just up...
by Patrick | Mar 27, 2025 | art, BRotS, Environment, Lifestyle, painting, photography
How is it that eating a plate of corned beef hash can result in a gain of 2 pounds weight? Admittedly it was a large portion, cooked myself, with a few baked beans on the side, but it blew my weight loss out the window! So now I need to set about trying to walk it off...
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