Well, so far the two projects and possibilities that might each have brought in a pretty (useful) penny have proven somewhat unuseful.  The work is there, the money not so much. Looks like I'll have to be more creative and more forthright in the future.That is the way of the world, I guess, but it would be nice to have some nice financial surprises for a change instead of the usual bad-surprise bills. However, I've kept out of trouble by stepping in to help with a couple of article designs...

Firstly, what’s happening in the Gulf is an environmental disaster. Man's eagerness to maximise profits trumping risk to the environment. On that we're all mostly agreed. Another 9/11 as President Obama equated it to, today? Well, that's debatable but there's no doubt people are angry and it may affect attitudes on the country's domestic attitiude. Quite right too. Oil and water don’t mix and when they do it’s never a good thing. When they don’t mix on the scale they are (aren’t) at the moment,...

The last week or so has felt very much like a holding-pattern on many fronts - there's plenty of things to be done but several decisions to be made before most of them go forward at any pace. In some cases the ball's in my court, but in most I'm waiting on others for the nod or shake.  As any reasonably creative person will tell you, that means an air of frustration... it tends to lead to the feast or famine situation where there's not a lot to do and then suddenly a lot to fit into a...

I spent last weekend up in the Yorkshire Dales with Simon Hopkinson, Glenn Hewitt, Sally Warr and other P365ers. The reason was a chance to do some landscape photography, but it was just as good a reason to have a change of scene and socialise a bit more.   We all stayed at the Ecobarn which was a great base of operations - it's a fully-converted barn near Dent which was originally started by entertainer Mike Harding as a recording studio and more lately as a place that can sleep...