R ight. If I see another Polaroid image on a website I’m going to… well, I’m not going to do anything really apart from sneer...

I made a New Year’s Resolution; NO MORE DICKING ABOUT....

An old Avatar Game...

Images of St Ives in the morning snow.  What the iPhone lacks in image quality sometimes it makes up with just by the fact you...

I wrote this piece of music about 15 years ago when I was a music student at York....

I have never designed a website for myself. I’ve designed hundreds of sites over the last 10 years (not all made it of course!). I’ve ...

Introduction I have been a Photoshop user for over sixteen years, ten of which have been in a production web design environment. I’ve got used...

I started writing this Blog a couple of years ago, with the occasional rant, oberservation and photo.  I kept it as a personal diary, but...

A few months ago my mum gave me a picture of my Great Grandmother and Great Grandfather (one on the right I think).   As...

Yesterday I had a visitor to my office. I don’t get many, but when I do they don’t normally come in uninvited through the window....

When I was little I was obsessed with making spaceships. I would use anything I could get my hands on to create my masterpieces and...

Early last year I paid about £130 for a Krupps espresso, cappuccino and filter coffee machine. It was a brilliant buy at the time and...

Occasionally I get the pleasure of leaving my office and travelling around the country on legitimate work missions. Recently my mission was to take a...

We got Bramble the Springer Spaniel when I was about 11. She was the puppy of Shelly owned by Ann Shamma who lived at the...

Now and then my mum shows me a photo. I’m usually completely horrified by how badly it has been looked after and incredibly ancient it...

I found this photo a while ago behind another more recent photo in an old frame. It was a poorly cared for 6X4, faded and...

Occasionally I need to make a very long and boring trip down to the Southampton office for meetings and our fabulous monthly ‘show and tell’....

Occassionally this summer, the clouds have gone to bed and the sun has come out to play with it’s best hat on. On those occasions...

Yesterday we went sailing at Ferry Meadows in Peterborough.There had been promise of the hottest summer weekend of the year, but as we arrived at...

Magic Mountains (see previous post) reminded me that a few weekends ago, my Mum brought over a huge folder of school work from when I...

A few weeks ago my daughter  (now 7)  spent a while frantically drawing a picture in her room and presented it  it to me proudly...

I thought I had a good idea of the creative abilities of my friend Luke. We used to work together, but now we only really...

And so I return to the grey skies of England, unhappy to have returned in some respects but relieved in others. The usual familiar feelings...

For our final night in Lanzarote we took an excursion into the Timanfaya National Park for a tour and barbecue cooked over a volcano. The...

Usually, I’m not the sort of person who likes lying around sunbathing. I find it quite tedious laying about and generally uncomfortable being in the...

It is a standing and almost institutionalised joke that the Germanic race are first to the pool laying towels on sunbeds in order to reserve...

Being a father to a daughter is perhaps one the greatest journies of discovery a man can undertake in his lifetime. Since the first minutes...

I can now say that I’ve been down in a submarine. Ok, so it was a small, tourist submarine, with no nuclear reactor and not...

Once again booking online with Thomson has worked out beautifully. This place is clean, spacious, well-equipped, lushly planted, quiet and not too crowded. It’s perfect...

Yesterday I joined the masses of ten year olds on Playa Dorada beach and bought a snorkelling set. I haven’t tried to snorkel since I...

We have spent the last couple of days enjoying the novelty of being next to a beautiful swimming pool basking beneath blue skies and endless...

At last we have sunshine. Lots of sunshine. Whilst areas of Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire are underwater back in England, here in Lanzarote water is still...

Six months later these have inevitably been lost, deleted or destroyed one way or another. I hate the word ‘blog’. It makes me feel like...

This weekend we’re flying down to the West coast of Africa to escape from the dreadful British summer. I’ve never visited the Canary Islands before,...

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsWMd3EYCXo] Why do we let kids learn the violin?  In the wrong hands it can be a lethal weapon, an instrument of torture and pain....

Last night it was sport’s evening at the school my kids attend. For 1 night only competitive sports were allowed, although there were hushed rumours...

This morning I witnessed a horrifying incident. Every morning, somewhere between 6am and 7:30am I now take two desperate greyhounds for a walk around the...

A few short years ago being a designer was fun.   Clients wanted smart animations and ‘flash intros’, they wanted everything to look impressive and...

Ever since we moved to Bluntisham in 2001, I have tried my hardest to keep my Wife from visiting Wood Green Animal Shelter. Wood Green,...

Someone got me thinking yesterday about Heaven and Hell, and which I may be steering a long, slow course towards. I have never been a...