Creating Smiling Ivy band promo image

Steve from Sheffield reggae ska band Smiling Ivy asked me if I could provide a “pic with a little more Xmas” I’d taken a series…

Snapped Ankles live

An evening enjoyably spent at the Picture House on Abbeydale Road watching headline band Snapped Ankles perform with support from Nuha Ruby Ra and Adrena…

Hallam Parkrun

1st park run in two years. This time running with my son. He beat me! I got a respectable, but not best, time of 24:02.…

Tramlines 2019

I had a wrist band for one day  just so I could see the Doves who were playing at the same time as Nile Rodgers…

A visit from Anto

My very good friend Anto Guerra-Gabaldón came to stay. We went out with my son William and spent a night around Kelham Island…including eating at…

Catching up with old friends

A night in Fire Pit Rocks on West Street with old friends Mark Holmes & Angie Holmes, Robert Baker, Brian Webster, Wayne Furniss and Jane…

Tiger Lillies at Wilton’s Music Hall

An evening with the Tiger Lillies performing their One Penny Opera at Wilton’s Music Hall, a fascinating renovated venue in London’s east end. They did…

Bedroom refurb

Having steamed stripped the walls of wallpaper I pasted on a lining paper layer before painting the room in two shades of grey. I then…

Drought unveils lost village

Derwent was a village in Derbyshire that was demolished (or technically drowned) in 1944 to make way for the Ladybower reservoir. The extremely dry summer/autumn…