Guatemalan Monkey Drama

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

Here’s a wildlife experience I had earlier this year when in Guatemala. I wrote it for submission to BBC Wildlife magazine and although they liked it, the ending is unresolved and so unsuitable, I couldn’t tie it up neatly. Still…here we are:
We had to set up the hammocks quickly if we were to get to [...]

Water

Saturday, August 15th, 2009

Sometimes I hate words, they fill up my head like beans in a jar, all crammed in, words upon words. But then, words can be like water, spilling, flowing, spreading across the page in a shifting stream.
I fell in love with water images a while ago. Photos of sea and sky, beach, pebble, seaweed, waterfalls; [...]

The presence of something…

Saturday, September 13th, 2008

This year I’ve ventured into the Pyrenees to where the clouds trawl the ground. I worked my body, hiking, freed my mind and created space for myself out of all that mountainous space. I’ve craved simplicity. Driving back up through the Dordogne, we visited prehistoric caves – Gargas, ‘the cave of hands’ and Cap Blanc, [...]