Rorsplash Challenge. What do you see folks...

Somnambulation. As I was walking into town, I met a man with scowl and frown... Well what do you expect when you get another year older - overnight! And still waiting for my sodding pension!

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Well, we managed to stop CRT's contractor strimming and mowing alongside the boat, avoiding chipped paint and cracked windows, but it was left to the trail camera to pick up this twat 'leaf-blowing' the towpath! who followed after them! Dirt, grit sand and shit blown everywhere!

Rorschach Challenge. Well folks what do you see this evening in time's ripples?

Somnambulation. So, here we are on a slow boat to chin..ah well maybe Japan looking at the comic manga vision walking the towpath pink purple hair and school satchel wished I knew where the hell I was am I dreaming?

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Rorschach Challenge. '...first time ever I saw your face... What do you see folks?

Somnambulation. Bloody rude fisherman pitched camp SIX feet in front of the boat, despite a request to have some respect for our privacy, then lays out his pole no doubt hoping to impress the passing lady joggers,

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Rorschach Challenge. What do you see in today's image folks?

Somnambulation. The flip flop of sandals on the towpath the swish of ponytail the whinny and neigh and the memories of bargee and horse drawing goods to the city was never quite like this - neigh lad neigh...

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Rorschach Challenge. Ripples in the rock-pool of life - well the outer reaches of an un-regarded arm of the Grand Union Canal - what do you see folks?

She's no' well in the heid.

Somnambulation. A tranquil scene, and cool, the water still, duck weed gathering round the lock, and the gentle flow of water over the bypass weir, and ghosts of the past glide past the present and the future is still...

What better metaphor for the state of Britain today than the most expensive house in the country, valued at over £210m, lying empty and unused for years while on the front step lives a man experiencing homelessness, his possessions laid out like some sort of art installation.

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Rorsplash Challenge. Looked out the side hatch a moment ago - what do you see in there folks?

A council meeting to debate scrapping West Norfolk's climate emergency was postponed because the chamber was too hot. Sometimes reality has impeccable timing. Our latest - Henry Durand reports

Somnambulation. We lifted the portholes out because of the heat - no sooner done than a spider takes up residence... A big bugger at that...

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Rorschach Challenge. What do you see tonight folks?

Somnambulation. 'Riding along on my pushbike honey, when I first saw you... 🎶🎵🎵🎶 Lock-wheeling is the done thing on the canals, cycling between locks to set the lock before the boat comes in...

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Rorschach Challenge. Wooden you know it, another barking mad challenge - what do you see folks?

The word ‘quick’ has surprising relatives. It’s related to ‘vital’, ‘vivid’, and Spanish ‘vivir’ (to live) via Latin, and to ‘bio-‘ and ‘zoo’ via Ancient Greek. Germanic relatives include Dutch ‘kweken’ (to grow; to foster) and German ‘keck’ (sassy). Click my new graphic to learn all about it:

Early stroll. Time has signed the sky’s portrait. Full skip as local history book. The man on the Public Footpath sign, endlessly walking nowhere. A parked car painted and decorated with bird poo. A double decker’s shadow moves across a bungalow.

Morning Dave

Somnambulation. I can just picture him standing there keys in hand, a list of them wot get in, and them wot get turned down to go find the Styx and the ferryman... I bet his name is Peter, but they sure as hell aren't the Pearly Gates nor anything like them...

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Rorschach Challenge. What do you see folks - through the heat haze...

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Rorschach Challenge. The man is back - what do you see folks?

Wordle 1,832 2/6 Away for a few days - returning with a Two Club... ⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Starting the photography today for my next national and multi year project documenting the impact of five decades of neoliberalism on the social fabric of Britain. The aim will be a book and an exhibition.

Rorschach Challenge. Arrrgh! hectic days ahead for us - what do you see folks? Whacky the better!

Somnambulation. Moving on - but not very far - to be hauled out of the water so's we can black the bottom of the boat...

FIFA truth.

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Rorsplash Challenge. Wild and whacky - what do you see tonight folks?

Ther are few thinges more lovelye than being able to tell an artist how verye much their worke hath matterid yn yower lyfe. So manye tymes thei have lefte bifor you get heere, or ther ys no chaunce to connecte, and so when it doth happen that you kan share some wordes, it ys a litel miracle.

Somnambulation. I do wonder what the greater act of vandalism is sometimes. Childish graffiti scrawled on a lovely brick and iron bridge over the canal, or the ugly monuments to capitalism and consumerism that blight the canal basin?

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Rorschach Challenge. I hear Elon has gone orbital - what do you see folks?

Early stroll. Clouds scribbled across the sky. A snail inhabits its own slow time zone. Artificial flowers on a real windowsill. Two lengths of red string tied to a lamp post. A scratchcard in a garden.

Somnambulation. You can tell a lot about a town by simply observing the signs on the streets - pedestrian areas, bus lanes, cycle lanes and so on... But WTF does a dedicated lane for unicycles say?

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Rorsplash Challenge. Open up the grey cell tell me what do you see?