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==🚲 I'm doing Blaugust this year. This is 9/?? posts in August == Today while walking through the centre on Bristol I happened upon the start of world naked bike ride. It was a roasting hot day again. There's a bit of a dip in the park I was in, a clearing surrounded by some groups of trees where people are sheltering from the sun. In the centre of the clearing, a group of drummers was playing,…
🌒 I'm doing Blaugust this year. This is 8/? posts in August. Yesterday there was a partial solar eclipse in the UK! I went up to the Bristol Downs, a big grassy area up at the top of the city, after work to try and see it. There ended up being about 3000 other people up there and the phone signal went down meaning it was quite tricky to find my friends. I did a lot of cycling around to old "live…
📸 I'm doing Blaugust this year. This is 6/? posts in August. A lot of these were of my friends or me at the beach, so I can only share the ones without faces. I wrote a post about some of the things we did here . I used Kodak 400TX for the black and white pictures and I really enjoy how they come out. Most of these pictures were taken around Vallauris and our Airbnb there. Some were taken on the…
📜 I'm doing Blaugust this year. This is 6/hopefully 31 posts in August. I recently subscribed to Garden variety , a group project by 4 illustrators and cartoonists. I'd been a longtime fan of Jillian Tamaki, but all of the contributors here are doing great stuff - Lala Albert, Ian Foster-Dimino and Eleanor Davis. My perennial issue as an artist, and in life in general, is that I have a hard time…
📔 I'm doing Blaugust this year. This is 5/hopefully 31 posts in August, and a post I started writing on the 19th of July. A page I've added to my blog this year but not linked anywhere (my 'page' page needs a spring cleaning) is little things for 2026 . I've been adding to it slowly, while trying to keep it little i.e. a task that can be done in an afternoon (or several seasonal tasks that could…
🖼️ I'm doing Blaugust this year. This is 4/hopefully 31 posts in August, about a visit to an art exhibit I started in June 2026. Back in June I got the train to Cardiff to visit Strange Beauties, an exhibit of the artist Gwen John's work at Cardiff Museum. A view from the upper floor of Cardiff Museum I'm not sure how well know she is outside of Wales - she was a Welsh artist born in 1876, who…
⚱️ I'm doing Blaugust this year. This is 3/hopefully 31 posts in August, and a post I started writing on the 19th of July. I was on holiday in July and I stayed in a little town in France called Vallauris, which is famous for its pottery. It was historically famous for pottery but the artistic side of things really kicked off in the 1950's, when Picasso moved there and started creating ceramic…
🌀 I'm doing Blaugust this year. This is 2/hopefully 31 posts in August. I was thinking about labyrinths recently and got a wave of nostalgia for the early 2000s. At this time I was being home educated by my mother, and one year (I forget which one exactly) we attended a home educators festival in the south of England. I think it was called Hesfest at the time, but now appears to live on under the…
⌚ I'm doing Blaugust this year. This is 1/hopefully 31 posts in August. Update: I eventually bought a watch ! I didn't end up buying any of the watches I considered in that post, instead I decided on a Timex watch and then trawled Vinted 1 a little while until one popped up I liked. This cost me £6, and then a further £19 to get the battery replaced in Timpsons 2 by a very friendly guy who sorted…
It remains sweltering here in the UK. I've been on holiday in the South of France, which seemed a little redundant because it's been the same temperature here in the UK (28 - 30 C) as it was on the Cote d'Azure. We visited Cannes, Antibes and Nice, and stayed in Vallauris, a little town in between Cannes and Antibes which is famous for it's pottery. Being a film fan, I was looking forward to…
Recently I went on a trip to North Wales, Eyri to be exact (the Welsh name for Snowdonia - Snowdon, the mountain the area is named after and the tallest mountain in Wales, is Yr Wyddfa in Welsh). We didn't hike up Yr Wyddfa - it's the busiest peak there, and there are many other mountains to climb which are less busy and just as spectacular. We were there to do some Scrambling, which is sort of…