Gavin Dimmock. Writer.

A sad day today as we said goodbye to one of our own. Family and friends came from far and wide to pay respects to a lovely man, gone too soon. I have never seen so many people at a service; there must have been over 600, possibly 700, there to show how much they…

Oh, the glamorous life I lead. I spent a large part of today – over five hours – in a cold and draughty lockup while I lettered the white van that you can see on the left. I managed to get most of it completed before it got too dark and cold to finish.

It snowed today, the sort of snow that is mostly hail and ice with the occasional flurry of snowflakes. I had to pop out into the snow to retrieve an item from my workshop late tonight and came across this critter as he crawled over the ice. If pretty sure that a caterpillar moving over…

February 1st at 2359 hours is the deadline for submissions to the Northern Writers’ Awards 2018. I am in the process of putting my entry together. I just have a 600 word synopsis to write and then to select 3000-6000 words of my story for my submission. That deadline is fast approaching!

This afternoon has been spent working on my submission to The Northern Writers’ Awards. The closing date is February 1st but my application needs to be as good s I can possibly make it. Consequently, as today has been a “writerly” sort of day, I thought that a shot of my copy of “On Writing”…

Out and about around my hometown today, while collecting supplies and delivering jobs to clients, I came across this intriguing declaration. Who is Kyle? What does he love? And why the reference to Basil Brush? And all of it scrawled in chalk. Maybe the answer will appear at a later date?

I spent most of today in my workshop preparing graphics for a vehicle. Whilst in my workshop I thought that an image of my power drill battery recharging station would be super exciting for you all to see. So, here it is. My newly bought DeWalt still can just be seen. I’ve yet to give…

You can just see the front of my van in today’s picture. We were on a combined “shopping/site visit” mission at a newly built and opened supermarket in our town. One of my clients owns the mill that you can see in the background and has asked me to come up with a design and…

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.