Wedding speech

Several nice things have been said to me in response to this speech – given at daughter Becca’s wedding on 17th Sept 2021 – so I thought I’d post it here. “I’ve never given a daughter [...]

I write for my own amusement usually, or maybe to clarify my thoughts. I offer the results in the hope that they will either amuse or provoke.  This piece, describing my recent hospitalisation, [...]

Adolf Hitler was still alive on the day I was born and I grew up in the world that he left behind. His rise to power, the conditions that led to it and the way people behaved once he was in [...]

I went early into lockdown, a week before Boris got his finger out of his Brexity bottom and made it national policy. But then I’ve got to admit it wasn’t a particularly difficult decision for me [...]

The Woods One little area of woodland in Penwortham has been a source of growing fascination for me over the last few weeks. Accessed through a small gap in the hedge, opposite the war memorial [...]

I’ve done a bit of writing over the years and got a great deal of pleasure from it. No money or enhancement of status it’s true (apart from that time I got an article published in the Times [...]

A Table Cloth. We artists respond to the environment we live in. That’s what Art’s about really, isn’t it?  But part of that environment is one’s own artistic past.  And of course, the older you [...]

I can’t remember when my fascination with trees began.  I suspect it coincides to some degree with my immersion (via Preston Art Society) in that great body of artists which I’ve labelled [...]