A MIXED BAG. Rain Stopped Play.

I had a day out planned for today. I’d done some research, checked the timetables AND taken a look at the weather forecast.

I had a day out planned for today. I’d done some research, checked the timetables AND taken a look at the weather forecast.

If you are a regular reader of my blog ( thank you!) you’ll have worked out that one of my main photographic interests is street photography. Watching and recording the daily to and fro of everyday life. That cafes, coffee and food in general crop up more than you might think is a pure coincidence.

I like making my own bread, I’m reasonably good at it and there’s nothing quite like the smell of bread baking. Or watching the steam rise from that first slice off a still warm loaf. Then of course you have to spread a little butter on it, it really does help being out all those flavours. I usually make wholemeal bread so that butter does no harm at all ( […]

An evening stroll along the Tyne took me past the tilting bridge on the Tyne. It’s unusual design means it opens a bit like an eye winking to allow shipping to pass underneath. In the background the Baltic Gallery can be seen. A former Rank Hovis flour mill from the early 2000’s has been an exhibition space for contemporary art. This stretch of the Newcastle quayside is quite the place […]

Up in the Lake District and a little less hectic than Lake Windermere is Derwentwater, hard by the town of Keswick. I was up there a while ago, back in the days before things went askew.

Any visitor to Manchester will soon notice the big yellow beasties that buzz through the streets. I’m talking about the Metrolink trams.