All stand! for Sly and the Family Stone
There are few musicians who can truly be called great, in that what they do and have done is completely original and has had a profound influenced of generations of musicians coming after them. Sly Stone from …
The end of religious bull
Shambo is lead away to be slaughtered. Pic from
Skanda community webcam
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Floods recede at last
Phew! After a very difficult and very wet week here in west Oxford/shire, it looks like
the floods are finally receding.
The ancient people who foun…
The floods this morning
The floods are no worse this morning, and traffic is still getting through -but only just- on the A40, despite the ‘road closed’ signs. Mad bastards!
The Thames isn’t as high as I feared it might be, though it has of course burst its banks a…
Floods!
Last month we had fire, this month it’s floods! After Friday’s torrential rain (we had 117mm of rain in
six hours) Oxfordshire is bracing itself for a …
Saturday night lakeside
Some people like to party on a Saturday night, but for me and my son Rupert an evening by Surman Lake in west Oxfordshire hoping to hook a carp is excitement enough.
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Some more hares
Some more hares
I’m having a lot of fun with these creatures. Here are another two small hare portraits. Here’s Watching hare:
and here’s Quiet h…
Hares, as promised
Hares kept appearing in my pictures last year, and all that I painted got a rapturous response from people who saw them. I enjoyed painting them hugely, so I have decided to paint a few more. Here are the first three of quite a few I have brewing in my m…
British Grand Prix 2007
After we saw Lewis Hamilton make a phenomenal win in GP2 at last year’s Big Prix, there was really no way we were going to miss the F1 British Grand Prix at…
Steely Dan, at last!
I don’t remember exactly when I first heard a Steely Dan record, but I guess it might have been ‘Reelin’ In The Years’ in the early 70s. I was just a child at the time, so did…
