My new newsletter. I've decided this month to create a newsletter that's a slice of niceness. It can all get a bit grim and demanding in...

The House with the Blue Door on the Humberston Fitties. I've just returned from a family break at my chalet on the Fitties. No car, no...

The last day of June. The blood-red blooms of pelargoniums spill from their pots. Petunias, so pink it hurts, blare their petal trumpets....

Sticky fudge and sticky heat. Roads and streets in Grimsby are empty. Everyone's gone to Clee. To see the Red Arrows the pride of nation....

A journal page about some thoughts about teenage years, and the things we lose along the way. Have you got Boo? Have you got Boo? The...

The breezy beach. Today I enjoyed taking Binbrook WI on a tour of the Fitties, talking to them about the dunes and the saltmarsh and the...

Petunia journaling page. Bright bells ringing Ballooning in the sun Their florid peals reminding me of the home where I put down roots....

Week 7 of the mural project at Learning4Life in Freeman Street. I seem to spend my days cycling between the East and West Marshes these...

At the Albert Room in Cleethorpes Library last night for the launch of New Crop and to listen to the eight writers read their pieces....

Before half term I spent the afternoon at Scartho Infants School doing a live painting session. Different classes of children come in to...

Journal page with sweet peas in my garden. White cloud mountains, Blue sky. A heavenly blue, of the kind you only get in June. When the...

Yesterday, wending my way from Freeman Street to home, on my bike. I felt an overwhelming love for where I live. Instead of noticing the...

So very happy to announce that I've been awarded a Large Project Grant by Create NEL to do more research into the East and West Marshes...

Mouse and moon in Cleethorpes Mouse and moon in Cleethorpes with the new RNLI building in the background. I've been drawing local scenes...

March 11 marks the 800+ years since King John signed the charter to give the town cerain freedoms and a market. I attended an event on...

I absolutely love standing next to a tree trunk, and looking up into the heart of the tree where the boughs meet the sky. It's lovely to...

At the end of 2024 thanks to some Arts Council funding I trained as an ARTiculate deliverer with the British Association of Art...

My first journal from January 2016. This is the first time this journal has had a public viewing. But I thought it would be useful to...

I woke up this morning reading the news and feeling a bit like, to misquote Churchill, that the lights are starting to go out. And then I...

The common reed The common reed, or phragmites, are a real feature of parts of Grimsby that still retain the wetlands that were once part...