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I've been using a film camera a lot lately. Although it's handy having a phone in your pocket that you can use to make instant photos when someone dents your car or you need to read the small print on a medicine bottle or a gallery wall, using film feels much more like making something special. These days it feels as if technology is trying to do everything for you, rememberi...

Back in 2011, I was thinking about how good books breed more good books. Fifteen years later, it's still true.   

 A short post today.. I'm just back home after a wonderful few days away with family, celebrating a birthday.

Nothing amazingly exotic : sitting on pleasing gardens, strolling along nostalgic streets,  a quick visit to the V&A wh ere children splashed in the sunshine - young spirits among the antiquities - and on to the delight of  an elegant Afternoo...

I was in a bookshop in England a while back, when a mother came in asking for help finding a book for her son, who was 11. He loved to read, she said, but was frequently coming from home from school with a book that his teacher wouldn't let him read. Because, the teacher said, it wasn't appropriate. 

What he liked, his mum said, was books with adventure. Hor...

 The first bank holiday weekend in May is known in these parts for being the Chaff weekend. 'Chaff' stands for 'Cheddar Arts Fringe Festival', and it began eleven years ago, when a group of artists in Cheddar decided that it had become too expensive to take part in the county-wide arts festival, and had the notion of developing a trail in Cheddar - the idea was that peop...