The Caped Crusader was on hand to help when we moved the dinos to their renovated summer quarters. Back in the winter, when the weather did this …

Six Word Photo Story Challenge: Freestyle — The walled garden is your supermarket. Victorian walled gardens were popular on UK TV in the latter part of the last century. The Victorian Kitchen Garden and its sequels ran for almost a decade from the mid1980s. The original programme saw a derelict walled garden restored to become a working kitchen garden. Walled gardens are a…

We set out today to see a trio of old friends we’ve not visited since the covid pandemic started. Not that they have the least interest in seeing us, but we were regular visitors up to a couple of years ago. After the meridian line (zero degrees longitude) leaves the…

Six Word Photo Story Challenge: Freestyle — Lightning turns the tree into art. It was a tree before the thunderstorm. Then the lightning singled it out. Now it’s a work of art that might go for millions in the right auction house. It’s sparse, but really quite cluttered. Is that a rodent standing on the top, looking up into the sky? And is…

Art, crime, or disturbing images? — The benefits of art for well-being and mental health are well documented. But does this stretch to graffiti and street art? Recently, Mary Chang Story Writer published a series of pieces showing graffiti and street art from around the world in her Six-Word Photo Story publication. Some incredible artwork has…

Six Word Photo Story Challenge: Freestyle — Fancy new signs at dog height. Today on our journey around the neighbourhood, we found some new signs — each containing a 6-word story: “Please clean up after your dog”. We don’t have a huge problem with people not cleaning up after their dogs, but apparently, there are a few whose community spirit is at a…

Spring Six Word Photo Story Challenge: “Nature Art” — Ash fish swimming in wood chippings. Logs from the post-storm tree-felling take on different guises as they are distributed around the garden. Sometimes they’re makeshift seats or footstools, sometimes they’re stepping stones through wood chippings, and sometimes — as now — they take on the role of fierce Ash Fish lurking in the raging waters (wood…