METAMORPHOSES From ‘singles’ to ‘albums’ From caterpillars to chrysalids And some lessons learned. Reflections on Metamorphoses With a little imagination metamorphosis can be applied to diverse forms of life from the obvious to the unlikely. Anyway that is what I will try and show. Let’s start with a reflection on the latter. Back in the […] Continue reading → 
WHAT’S NEXT Buttock scrunch times ten Ankle flex and knees depress, This is rehab.Yes. Many repetitions and chanting of my rehab mantra see me well placed five weeks after my hip-op. The downtime between each of the daily four sessions has been devoted to reading with the Dave Hepworth review of the music of 1971 […] Continue reading → 
“Music is playing inside my head Over and over again My friend, there’s no end to the music…” (1) And so it was, as 2016 was being brought to a close, with the launch of a new supergroup. (See previous article entitled “My back pages” ) Specialized was joined by two new partners courtesy of […] Continue reading → 
WATERLINES December 2016 1. The year’s shortest day saw me at Budle Bay just north of Bamburgh in Northumberland . It is a favourite place. The small estuary with its inlets and mud flats can be scanned from the adjacent layby so, depending on the tide, mud or water and the bird life these attract […] Continue reading → 
‘LE BOTIN’ AND AN ‘UNEXPECTED EVENT’ November 1st 2016 “Inspiring Impressionism” was the title given to a recent exhibition of art at the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh. It claimed to bring together for the first time paintings by Monet, Van Gogh and Daubigny. “Who” I hear you ask, “was Daubigny”? Surely, a super […] Continue reading →