I gave blood on Wednesday. Amazingly, it’s 16 years since I last did, and I don’t have a good reason for it. It’s not like I’m too squeami...

For several years I've created a post at the beginning of January celebrating my favourite photos of the previous 12 months (see label, ...

I expected to be an emotional wreck this morning. Instead I was swathed in a glorious sense of calm and serenity. Last night was the fir...

We were about 4 weeks into Lockdown when I first heard about a photographer somewhere in America doing Doorstep Portraits . For a brief mo...

I was recently on a TV programme – Trusadh – about ME/CFS [links to Part 1 and Part 2 on YouTube]. The relevance of my contribution lay in...

When we first moved to our house in Castle Douglas, there was quite a big shed in the garden – about 8 x 12 feet. It was rotted in places, b...