Adullamite

Nothing much has happened recently, apart from temperatures heading for the 90s and everyone being sick of the liars contesting the Conserva...

With the temperature reaching towards 31c and that means about 92f, I thought some would appreciate a picture to cool them down.   This arti...

What a good picture this is.  'The Mornings Catch,' by James Clark Hook, 1877. This tells us much about the rough lives out forefath...

  The hazy bright morning sun promised Spring warmth, as I write the drizzle is busy trying to rear Daffoldills which cower under the bare b...

Holyrood  ' Holyrood' by Albert Goodwin caught my attention this morning.  A striking, though somewhat dramatic, impressi...

In times past I liked to take portrait pictures.  I must have taken hundreds of pictures of people and have at least one really good ...

The world returned to normal this morning. Vehicles sped up and down the road, the wireless offered death, despair and shock horror h...

I came across this picture of Cardiff Docks by the American artist  Lionel Walden  (1861-1933)the other day and am much impressed. I l...

These interesting houses were I read somewhere built by one of the Courtauld's for some of their (better) employees. Unfortunately ...

So after the e-mails I phoned using my dying mobile phone. I ensured I charged the battery as I expected to listen to "Your call...

. I snapped this bright blue sky this afternoon as I suspect this may be the last hot day of the year.  The y say the temperature will d...

. I like portraits.  This self portrait of Sir Joshua Reynolds is particularly good I thought. Instead of the usual sidelong glance and...

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. Norham Castle I am just trying to make an impression...... .

Do you realise just how difficult it is to paint the window? Mind you is is several years since I attempted this and I had to relearn every...

This painting is called 'The Beaver Hat ' and is by the Scots painter Edward Arthur Walton. I post it simply because I like it. In ...