10/10/23Ant Musing: Let’s talkThis podcast episode is about conversation. I ask what are the different factors which determine the different styles. What is your favourite mode of conversation? It has given me to chance to air my painting ‘Let’s Talk’ again!Read More
03/10/23Ant Musing: Memory SticksThis podcast episode is about long term memories and how they are triggered. The cover art is a drawing I did at 13 of the event I recalled recently again, mentioned in the podcast. All will be revealed if you listen! (only 5 minutes as ever). The heading is a pun by the way – good, eh?Read More
08/09/23Ant Musing: What ifThis episode considers some ‘what ifs’ in history and what they might tell us. The cover art in my painting of Framlingham Castle. If you have ever considered any ‘what ifs’ aka counterfactuals in history I would love to hear about them in comments!Read More
04/09/23Ant Musing: Happy?This episode of my podcast is about a chat I had about happiness. Is it just a joke? Well, jokes make you happy….Read More
04/09/23Ant Musing: Travel Broadens the mindMy daughter just completed a 4000 bike trip from Kazahstan to Hungary. We joined her afterwards in The Czech Republic and had a great time. This episode is about what we might learn about the world, ourselves and others from travelling.Read More
04/09/23Crypt of Cyril and Methodius, PragueThis short describes my moving experience in August 2023 in the Crypt of the Cathedral of Saints Cyril and Methodius, where 7 paratroopers, 2 of whom had been the assissinators of Heydrich under Operation Anthropoid in May 1942, died following betrayal, attack and flooding. I used still shots not video as the crypt of a church is not the rightRead More
31/05/23Roman Anchor RisingIn 2018, an anchor, believed to be Roman or late Iron Age, was found off the Suffolk coast during survey work by Scottish Power Renewables on their East Anglia One windfarm. It was raised – for the last time – in 2021. On 27th September 2022, for one day only, the anchor was put on display at Ipswich Museum. Luckily,Read More
05/11/22The Man of TaoI have long been interested in Taoism. I was initially introduced to it by dear school friend David. I have been carrying out some renewed reading of key texts over the last couple of weeks because it has been selected within the next topic of my bi-monthly philosophy group. This blog is not intended even to attempt to summarise anyRead More
30/09/22Art in the gardenIn sunny August this year, my friend David Sharp allowed me to be a free artist in his lovely garden in Rushmere St Andrew. He has built there a wonderful Japanese teahouse and placed a statute of Buddha on its deck. I decided to use pastels for the work. I wanted to create a reasonable size work which would captureRead More
21/08/22From canon to cannonMinsmere Nature Reserve is a wonderful place but until my last visit in July I did not know that it impresses with human history as well, at least apart from the WW2 anti-tank cubes of course. Turning back from the beach on one of those very hot days we have all experienced lately, I saw the outlines of beautiful ancientRead More