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  • The Barbican Life Winter 2021 magazine: my lockdown wildlife photography

    The Barbican Life Winter 2021 magazine: my lockdown wildlife photography

    Barbican Life My lockdown photography In this winter’s issue of Barbican Life Magazine there is an article by Erin Summers about my wildlife photography during Lockdown! To read the magazine in full, visit The Barbican Life Website here. To go straight to Erin’s interview, click here. Page 2 Page 3 The complete article by Erin…

  • Birdsong in a Silenced City: a year since first lockdown

    Birdsong in a Silenced City: a year since first lockdown

    The morning of the first Lockdown on 23rd March 2020 I awake to a strange sound. ‘What is that sound?’ I ask.We live alongside a busy city street and accustomed to the ubiquitous sound of traffic noise. However, this morning, it is as though that noise has turned off like a tap. The sound I hear…

  • Get me out of here! Lockdown: new sculpture project

    Get me out of here! Lockdown: new sculpture project

    I have made a sculpture maquette called Lockdown. The figure cast in bronze resin stands with hands pressed against the glass, looking out, trapped and alone inside a box. I want it to portray that ‘euuuuhh aaaaagh’ feeling!—the caged, silent scream of angst and claustrophobia that we might all feel when deprived of going out…

  • And here we go into lockdown again

    And here we go into lockdown again

    I want out—This is hell!I yelland I rant!Well, I can’t!I must play by the rules(with exception of schools)And— Stay home and work if I can,Stick to the plans;Wash hands, Cover face,Make spaceTrack and trace Lesley Scoble | 5th November 2020 The second lockdown It is November the fifth, 2020 and England is embarking on another lockdown for a…

  • Colonel Blink aka Dominic Cummings

    Colonel Blink aka Dominic Cummings

    Eye Test Drive I went to my local Boots the Chemists yesterday to ask for my eye prescription as I need to buy new reading glasses—but the optician section was closed due to the Coronavirus. There was a notice on the entrance to the optician area stating that the nearest open opticians was in Kent…