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Day 2
30 Days Wild Challenge I am sure there are worse challenges than spending some time each day focusing on something wild—but it is only Day Two and I realise how little time we seem to have these days to concentrate on what is so vital and inherent in us all—the living plants and creatures of…
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Day 1
Day One – 30 Days Wild Challenge. I slip through the gate of the small city wildlife garden in the Barbican. The day is warm and there is a gentle breeze. The grasses in the little wildflower meadow wave a greeting as I follow the path round to the little pond. I can see a…
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30 Days Wild
It’s the 1st of June and I’ve signed up to take part in the UK’s month-long nature challenge—to do something WILD everyday this June. What am I going to do today? I could explore a nearby wild place—living in the City of London this is already an interesting CHALLENGE! Listen to the birds in my…
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Casting and Moulding Sculpture Course
On a rainy morning I’m travelling on the top deck of a number 4 bus to Waterloo. The bus takes me across Waterloo Bridge to drop me at a stop that is but a short walk from the Morley College where I am booked on a course to learn how to mould-make and cast from…
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Not In, Not Out — Britannia Teeters Between Two Stools
Brexit delay— poor Statesmanship, party and individual prevarication and manoeuvrings by Parliamentary fools has put our nation in a precarious humiliating compromising position. Time for Parliamentarians to stop ‘Hokey Cokeying’ about! The Hokey Cokey What is the Hokey Cokey? It’s an old folk song and dance that for some reason comes to my mind when…
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It’s not me!—it’s them
Theresa May v Hung Parliament My quickie sketch on my iPad is a lame attempt to illustrate the current goings on between Parliament and the PM Teresa May. I quote the PM. “It’s not me!—it’s them. — Theresa May She claims it is not herself to blame for the current impasse in the Brexit negotiations…
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Shadow Man
Low winter light casts long shadows of silhouetted figures upon the pavement of Aldersgate Street.
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O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?
It’s coming up to the romantic time of year! So I’ve sketched a cartoon from the famous balcony scene from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet (well, you can’t get more romantic than Romeo and Juliet can you?) Oops! Romeo has fallen down the stage trapdoor (stranger things have happened in a live performance). If you like…
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The Importance of Plants in an Urban Environment
During thirty years residency (yes, I know, bit of a long time!) living on the Golden Lane Estate, City of London, I and my family have enjoyed flowers and plants brightening up the place. Plants have graced these areas since before 1987 (the year I first saw them). I cannot tell you when the first…
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A Trip To The Dentist
It is like an opening scene from the TV series Criminal Minds. The alleyway is dark shadowy and narrow and I am expecting a serial killer to emerge from the dusk and bludgeon us to death. We are about to leave the gloom of the passageway when—I trip on the pavement falling straight splat flat…
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