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Positano, Amalfi Coast

Gods, ruins and street life: photos from 2019

From Kolkata streets to the Shropshire hills, from watching gods to warships: a selection of my photos taken during 2019.

December 10, 2019 in Glasgow, Scotland, Travel.
Aircraft carrier in docks

Firth of Forth: walking the coast of witches and war

War machines, tav avoiders, climate change. If you want to escape politics, walking along the Firth of Forth is not the place to do it.

July 30, 2019 in History, Psychogeography, Scotland.
Inside the abandoned / chapel building in Bedlam. Some furniture, blue walls, table, plastic curtains

Abandoned in Bedlam

Bedlam is at the end of the road, but that’s the least of it.

August 31, 2018 in Uncategorized.
Image of the first international football match between Scotland and England

Why football IS coming home…to Glasgow

Celebrating new English football, drunken tales of the Tartan Army and looking forward to a football homecoming to Glasgow in 2020.

July 12, 2018 in Glasgow, Scotland.

A republican son, a royalist mother and a royal wedding

A republican watches the royal wedding with the ultimate royal watcher, fact checker, sharp-tongued etiquette stickler. It’s all washed down with booze.

May 31, 2018 in Uncategorized.
Brighton Pier in the fog

Fog on Brighton Pier: a dark side of the English seaside

Exploring the fog and dark side of a day at the English seaside.

May 17, 2017 in Uncategorized.
Crewwe station at night with empty platforms

A lost world at Crewe Station

Late Sunday night and Crewe Station is empty and deserted. But there is a lost world here, filled with the ghosts from a bygone era of variety theatre.

January 30, 2017 in History, Travel, Uncategorized.
Trees, sea marsh, coast - Porlock

Somerset: Walking with Coleridge and the Person from Porlock

Walk in parts of Devon and Somerset and you walk the footsteps, opium dreams and Romantic poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

August 2, 2016 in History, Travel, Uncategorized.

Wild beauty in a disappearing graveyard

It took me a moment to notice there was something different about this graveyard.

October 8, 2015 in Uncategorized.
Tree in the fog

Ghosts, fog and Bedlam: country night-walking

Night walking a country lane, exploring local Shropshire ghosts and watching a winter sunrise on the eerie Titterstone Clee Hill.

March 18, 2015 in Uncategorized.

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