One of the bookshelves in our home. This one contains a number of biographies of musicians i like and my iPods. Mr Lennon and Mr Springsteen side by side, not a shabby pairing. As Bruce eloquently remarked “tramps like us, baby we were born to run”.

An early morning shot a heavy frost of the bonnet of my van. The sun had yet to warm the vehicle and I took the chance to snap today’s picture.

My wife has been unwell today and spent most of this afternoon asleep in bed. Consequently I popped the fire on and set myself on the sofa to watch the NFL playoff games. This is the little electric fire blazing away and keeping me warm while Sarah was tucked safely in bed recuperating.

I spent a short time today working on the “mock up” for my book cover. After downloading the images I’d previously chosen from iStock, I dropped these into my artwork. This is a shot of my Mac and the design in InDesign.

My pint of choice is Guinness; it has been for many years and, with the occasional exception or if the bar doesn’t have it on tap, you can be confident it’s what I’ll order. An early finish today – we’ll, not even a start, really, as I had a non-work engagement first thing – saw…

For many people the formative days of any new year are often concerned primarily with organising, sometimes reorganising, and in planning for the twelve months ahead. With this in mind, last week I ordered a new diary insert and stocks of paper for my trusty, some may say “old fashioned”, Filofax. Today they arrived and…

Suffering from a wee bit of a bad back these past few days, I was laid on the floor to alleviate the discomfort whilst I worked on giving my blog site a much needed tidy up and facelift. After popping to the kitchen for a few minutes I returned to discover Elphie the Mini Schnauzer…

Taken from my bedroom window, this striking sunrise over a Brighouse slowly emerging from the dark of night seemed an apt picture to snap for the first day back at work after the festive break.

A few years back, on January 1st 2015, I undertook my “365 Project” – to take one picture each day for the whole of that year and, once completed, print the images in a small album for posterity. I snapped the pictures on my iPhone and found the project was enjoyable to do. Some days…