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Sundown Car Park

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I love those haunting shopping malls on the edge of town, where the car parks run into the […]

January 19, 2021 Bourges, drifting, Edgelands, photography, Road trip, sundown

TRAVELS (poem)

Travelling to somewhere, Travels always go somewhere. (But F*** knows where) Rain spit spatters on the windshield, The […]

November 23, 2020 countryside, Death, drifting, driving, Ghosts, Landscapes, Life, Motoring, Philosophy, Poetry, Road trip, TRAVEL, writing

Wine to Water

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A crisp sunny autumn afternoon. Sunday drive weather. Winding up through the vines of Sancerre then twisting down […]

October 18, 2020 Boats, countryside, deepest france, driving, Environment, France, French, Landscapes, Motoring, photography, Provincial France, Road trip, Sailing, Sancerre, sunday, vines, Wine

Free Falling – More Summer Places

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Staying home after my heart attack. Can’t travel, won’t travel. Delving into my photo archives. A few more […]

August 12, 2020 Art, Bourges, Cannes, countryside, Culture, deepest france, depression, drifting, Edgelands, France, Holidays, Landscapes, photography, Road trip, Rural Life, Small town, summer, TRAVEL, urban

Summer Places – Going Up The Country

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High summer and we are “On the road again” – that’s the song everyone knows, but in the […]

July 28, 2020 countryside, France, Landscapes, photography, Road trip, Rural Life, Tourism, TRAVEL

Back to the Beach

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We are being “deconfined” or to express it in a more elegant manner, our terms or conditions of […]

June 1, 2020 Beach, Café, Cannes, France, Fun, Holidays, photography, Road trip, summer, Tourism, TRAVEL

In The Mud With Her Majesty

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Out and about in the mud on manoeuvres with Her Majesty

March 22, 2020 Art, countryside, deepest france, France, photography, Road trip

Photos from Deepest Nowhere

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It was that time of year when my work takes me the middle of deepest nowhere. Here are […]

March 22, 2020 Café, deepest france, drifting, French Village, Ghosts, Military, photography, Provincial France, Road trip, Small town, Time Travel

Collage Retrospective

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Collage retrospective in support of my current exhibition.Quite a lot are late 50’s or early 60’s themed, others […]

September 10, 2019 1960s, Ageing, Art, Bourges, collage, Culture, deepest france, driving, France, French, History, Life, Love story, Motoring, Pesidential Election, photography, Road trip, Saturday night, Shopping, Sport, summer, Television, Time Travel, TV, Weekend

Bye Bye Easy Rider

Missed out on the death of easyriding Peter Fonda. Here are a few lines I wrote back in […]

September 1, 2019 drifting, driving, Landscapes, lyrics, Poetry, Road trip, TRAVEL, writing

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