Tag: Health

  • Escaping the Tunnel

    Escaping the Tunnel

    I have agonised over whether to write this piece, but after the interest that the previous piece on cancer has generated, and the continuing interest in my 2013 piece on beating type 2 diabetes, I thought I should share my experience

  • Walking Wounded

    Walking Wounded

    The dangers of physical and emotional ‘burn-out’ for the creative mind. Creativity needs nurturing. As Picasso is supposed to have said, ‘artists are the elite of the servant classes’ but need treating with respecrt

  • A Tea Breeze

    A Tea Breeze

    The wind came off the sea, fast and hard. Hitting the 300 foot high cliff face it shot upwards joining forces with higher level wind to bend and blast …

  • It’s all a Performance

    It’s all a Performance

    Art is a language and all language is about communication. It takes a transmitter and a receiver, and all art need s an audience as without an audience it is like a proverbial tree falling in a forest… so the website is my new stage on which my performances in the studio can be critically…

  • Castles in the Air, Dreams Earthbound

    Castles in the Air, Dreams Earthbound

    the trip would take me out of myself and into a different landscape. Indeed the whole trip was a reminder of what a cobblers our government has made of our road system whilst reminding me of just how beautiful England is.

  • Trains and Boats and planes….

    Trains and Boats and planes….

    I have travelled business class with BA, upper class with Virgin over the Atlantic (a one-off cheap offer) and, on this trip, in the business class cabin of Emirates. They are all brilliant. Images : propellers to jets

  • Old town, new war

    Old town, new war

    This post is about how I beat type 2 diabetes in a battle back to health. It is a new war we wage as obesity and unhealthy eating shortens our lives. If I can do it so can you