Summer! It's warm, everything is full of life and flowers are in full bloom.

Daffodils! Lots of daffodils! Beautiful yellow sunlit daffodils.

A vertical 270 degree panorama taken on the beach, up, down and two horizons

An update on things, changes, doubts, hopes.

Garden photos, acrylic lettering and the start of a simple, limited computer

Fancy looking but pretty easy to make biscuits

I went to London for work, but this is about getting there a bit early and going to look at art in Tate Modern.

Cherry blossom! Lots of it! Macros!

The shortest month feeling even shorter. Pictures of jackdaws in a pink sky, the moon and photos and drawings of flowers.

I did the 'Hourly Comics' thing this time! Is it once a year? I have no idea. It's a lot of effort.

January is finally over! I took photos and made biscuits and birds visited the garden.

Questions about blogging I saw on Jasper's site so have joined that chain letter

The jackdaws have never liked cherries. Every year they strip the whole lot off before they ripen.

A year gone, another year about to happen

More photos from the garden, a woodlouse having a close encounter with a flashlight. Also photos of berries, blackbirds, etc.

Six paintings to go in six frames

Documenting getting a simple-seeming but complicated thing working with some help from a friend

The workshop, after many months, is finally done.

The workshop, it is painted! At last! Brick red can look pretty exotic in the sunshine you know.

A rose by any other name and all that. I don't know the names of a lot of the roses in my garden but I love them all and like taking pictures of them.

I'm making arancello!

It's been a wet summer so far, but parts of the garden are doing pretty well

We had an election, dare we hope?

Green things in the garden!

I went to Boston for work, took some photos

Photos I took around the garden in May

Instagram algorithms are giving me the fear

At last some colour and life in the garden

Letting a machine help out

Got apples? Then make apple cake!

A print, a veritable print! Also rose-print-FINAL-v2-LATER-FINAL-v3

Intaglio! Intaglio! Can you handle the pressureio?

A very, very long blog post describing a long project that wore me out

The sun, in box form

A box for platonic blossom, and how I made it.

A miserable winter's day inspired a marquetry box.

(Almost) everything I made in 2022.

I tried dry embossing and it just worked. Amazing.

It's all up from here.

The smoke has some air in it, just about.

We had frost at last and the garden is decorated with sparkling ice

The sky was full of Jupiter's colours

The leaves are such a bright yellow on the cherry and pear trees

I took a photo of our moon and of the moons of Jupiter (how sci-fi does that feel to type)

A distant jackdaw on a roof

Flowers, leaves, a spider, more leaves

Four pictures of the moon, all taken around one in the afternoon today and adjusted differently

The last of the tomatoes from the greenhouse, made into sauce

Lovely eroded bricks and sand and tide pools

Some recent photos

I bought a very worn out writing box and fixed it up. This is how.

I made reusable advent calendars, and I've finally written about it

A full write up with lots of photos of the wind-powered carousel I made.

Painting and decorating a set of pandemic matryoshka eggs

I made fake Baileys. It's a close substitute, I think it's actually a bit better.

Normie normie makey makey thingy wingies

Everything is now nagware

US election post

Not-Inktober

I painted a painting

A sense of surprise at finishing something so physical and practical.

A world made of multicoloured brick-shaped paving slabs.

Building a patio!

Digging holes into endless dependencies. And birds.

Concrete!

A quarter notes. Stuff I did and made, and yes, actual toast sandwiches.

I made an actual thing.

Grief

Making arts, assembling twigs

News, news and not-so-news

Not really about that thing that's happening

Painted months, Welsh in a Week

Alt-ish text: A full-page image of watercolour blocks and a man climbing down through them.

Snooker players being tactical

Apples and pears, a punctured palm, fresh rose and hopping hungry birds.

A decade that was.

Forest gardening

Buying plastic to reduce plastic?

Inktober things, new headphones

All my Inktober 2019 drawings and the story I made to tie them all together.

Unplanned unconsciousness, sudden illness, sunny coastal walks and Inktoberish planning.

Inktober planning, medical mysteries, a photo diary and feeble justifications of occasional consumerism.

The named flower, not a person getting hurt

St John’s Wort in our garden

Insect vision hacks, rapid-fire photography, some beautiful books and the world of type, calligraphy and cartography again.

Bee, poppy!

A creature from another time

Berries from bin juice

Videos on photos, sporty pens, annoying technology and really good technology.

Camellias and greenhouse vs Storm Freya.

A procreate drawing of moorland nearby.

The red glowing orbs above London

The slow, sweaty and often unrewarding quest for health

A kind of weeknotes, but for a month.

I got the new iPad Pro.

A long overdue update, mostly about silicone rubber and epoxy resin.

A kind of review of the year so far.

I did Inktober, and here are the results.

Updates from a few weeks

Beeeee!

A visit to London in the pissing rain and then a glorious sunlit journey home.

Crows! Crows! Lots of crows!

A view from the 13th floor in the rain.

The first hopeful post in a probable series about our renovation work. I hope the rest are as positive.

I started a character drawing course. I drew eyes. Many eyes.

Celebrating the solstice.

How to teach empathy?

Frost, yellow leaves

Fuck.

London looking picturesquely dystopian

A photo of Paddington just after I've arrived

A photo of Paddington as I'm about to leave London

I gave a talk on using simple language

Yes, yes, another picture of the moon. What of it?

A gif I made from a video taken on the train

Early morning travel

Preserving apples from the garden.

Imps. They're real, I tell you.

Experimenting with making sugar free ice cream. With recipes!

Taking pictures from the hotel room.

Some pictures and a (large) gif I made when in London.

Thoughts on the Olympics.

New shiny camera!

Enjoying the fruits of someone else's labour (honestly, mind)

Mostly a gif I made.

The inaugural post.