Blog & Podcast

This episode of my podcast is about loneliness and solitude. What causes them and how they differ.

This week’s Antmusing podcast is about an intense afternoon’s activity in Ipswich and what it all told me.

This episode of my podcast explores these terms and sees them as a spectrum not categories. The cover art is the gear I made for a fancy dress party at Framlingham Castle in 2019. Does it show an extrovert or an introvert at work?

This 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!

This 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?

This 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!

This episode of my podcast is about a chat I had about happiness. Is it just a joke? Well, jokes make you happy….

My 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.

This 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 right

In 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,