Author Archives: Guthlac

For the past few weeks I have been getting a number of hits for one photograph I have on Flickr. The photograph is of a track that goes over the M69 motorway. Now for some reason this is now being viewed 10 – 20 times a day because people are doin… Continue reading →

The photo shoot on Wednesday had the aim of capturing some new small bird portraits to allow them to be used in my ARPS submission. However, one of things that the assesses have said again and again is balance. The photographs I made yesterday, wh… Continue reading →

So the plan this morning was to try and capture some small bird portraits for the ARPS submission. I knew just the spot in Calke Abbey and so I set out with the best of intentions. However, whilst I captured some interesting small bird portraits t… Continue reading →

What indeed? There is clearly a very caustic answer which may well be true but I think all new governments deserve a chance before the carping started. However, in a 24 hours news cycle this is unlikely to happen. However, enough of this as I thin… Continue reading →

Lovely spring morning photographing birds and bangers & mash for lunch – does it get any better? Most of morning I have been at natipnal nature reserve at Calke Abbey. The plan was to try and capture blue tits and great tits. I am not too sure how… Continue reading →

We are having some building work done at the moment which entails having a couple of radiators removed. They started to dribble yesterday but today one of them sprung a major leak. Half an hour of frantic bailing out the water and the leak appears… Continue reading →

So sense appears to have prevailed and we have a the makings of a coalition government between the Conservatives and the Lib Dems. During the day the proposed Labour offer appears to have evaporated for whatever reason. Now we have the scramble fo… Continue reading →

I have had a night’s sleep to mull over the coming and going at Westminster and I think I need to make a few points clear. The first is I think this whole process is healthy. I cannot see any reason why we shouldn’t have a while to sort out which … Continue reading →

I know I have been very critical of so called experts who claim to be able to see the future with 20/20 vision so I think it is important to state I have no idea what is going to happen. I think it is also important to say that in principle I have… Continue reading →

We start day three of the great negotiation and guess what the financial markets are not in any real lather about the political situation in Britain. This doesn’t mean they wont it just means that all the ‘we are doomed’ na’sayers over the weekend… Continue reading →