28 November 2011

Well I told you once and I told you twice, but you never listen to my advice - Another fine example of stencilled graffiti, this one is hidden from site on Ramsgate seafront.

21 October 2011

She's like a rainbow - Used printer cartridges. Thanks to Epson for designing a printer system where it's almost as cheap to buy a new printer every time you run out of ink.

18 October 2011

Wild horses couldn't drag me away - I remember this puzzle from when I was a very young boy, probably four or five years old. It belonged to my Dad and fascinated me for years until I finally worked out how to do it. The instructions on the packet read "Mount the two Riders on the two Horses without bending, cutting, or in any way mutilating the Cards. It can be done - try it!"

8 October 2011

I will be your knight in shining armour - Margate's surfboat The Friend to all Nations became famous in the great storm of 1897, which damaged much of Margate and destroyed the Switchback railway. On the morning of 2 December 1897, thirteen men set out in the surfboat towards the struggling Persian Empire. However the Friend was hit by two waves in quick succession and capsized just off the Nayland Rock. Just four men made it to shore, of whom the medic Charles Troughton died on reaching land. The remaining nine were all beaten to a pulp on the rocks, except for Joseph Epps who was found, barely alive, underneath the capsized boat. This is the memorial to those men, it stands on Margate's seafront, near The Nayland Rock Hotel.

14 September 2011

Then in flies a guy who's all dressed up like a union jack - Clouds over Pegwell Bay, Ramsgate.

28 August 2011

I show you how to walk the dog - Otto likes to make friends and although he's not a big fan of being taken for a walk himself he was keen to take his pal Diesel out for a bit of exercise.

22 August 2011

Make every song you sing your favorite tune - Shoulder badge from a Trinity House lighthouse keeper's uniform.

18 August 2011

She shoots colours all around - Like a good computer user I make regular back ups, normally to an external hard drive, but often to DVDs as well. When picking up one of these discs it's hard to resist moving it around in the light and watching the colours that appear on the disc, it's like a digital kaleidoscope.

7 August 2011

You know I could never be alone - When you live with someone who is passionate about something you get used to their odd habits. Even though Lin runs her own gardening business she is still very passionate about gardening. Everywhere she goes especially at this time of year she pulls dead heads or seed pods off of flowers and plants and quietly slips them into a tissue and then her pocket. The shelves in her garden shed are littered with envelopes of seeds and dead heads like these.

2 August 2011

She left me standing here just high and dry - Whilst riding between Selling and Sheldwich this morning I noticed what I thought was an old yacht out of the corner of my eye. I stopped and walked back and sure enough it was an old wooden yacht sitting behind a garden wall. Behind the yacht you can just see the roof of an old van, but beyond the van is an old Routemaster double decker bus and several other old vehicles.

26 July 2011

But it's all right now, in fact, it's a gas! - This little box of tricks ruined my afternoon today. Lin came home in her van with the left hand indicator stuck on. After a quick Google search and a telephone call to a friend I decided that the flasher relay had stopped working. I went to a local motor factors only to be told that the part could only be ordered from the main dealer, which would probably cost me an arm and a leg plus it would take several days to come in. So after a quick trip to the breakers I got a replacement for £2 and spent the next hour or so getting grazed knuckles and black fingers.

27 June 2011

You'll never make a saint of me - This well worn St Christopher necklace used to belong to my Mum, she had it for as long as I can remember. As St Christopher is the patron saint of travellers it now sits safely in a small lockable compartment on our motorbike.

22 June 2011

Coming colours in the air - Lovely mosaic made my our good friend Jo Letchford. Her inspiration for it came from discarded letters from The Emporium at the bottom of The Old High Street in Folkestone, which is also where Jo's shop is. You can find out more about Jo, her work and mosaic courses by clicking here.

17 June 2011

Rape, murder! It's just a shot away - It was probably some of this chap's close relatives that decimated my courgette and butternut squash plants. They've had a go at my lettuce, peas, runner beans and several other of my crops. Now, thanks to some organic slug pellets everything is under control again. Order has been restored.

2 June 2011

Don't have to move your lips - Close up detail of a sculpture by local artist Ruth Geldard who's work can be seen here.

1 June 2011

I used to cook your meals and bring to your door - Whilst out gardening LIn finds many interesting items for me to photograph such as this seagull egg.

12 April 2011

Like a queen in days of old - whilst staying at a friend's house I saw this mosaic lamp shade with the sunlight coming through it.

8 April 2011

Weren't you at the coke convention back on nineteen sixty-five? - With the opening of the Turner Contemporary just a week away is Margate ready for it? What will the 5,000 expected visitors coming to the opening day think about The Lido?

12 March 2011

Well, I followed her to the station - whilst out for a ride on the motorbike today we stopped in Tenterden and walked down to the station of The Kent & East Sussex Railway. It looked really interesting and we've made a mental note to go back again and take a ride.

18 January 2011

No more will my green sea go turn a deeper blue - this is a close up of the ironwork at the start of the wall on Ramsgate's East Pier. For years it was left unpainted and I for one preferred it before they painted it black.