This way or that?

Sometimes when you don't know what to do, instinct takes over and tells you to pack your bag and run. After months of restlessness, deliberation and angst, my reaction fled from fight and broke into flight. With one sturdy suitcase, one well loaded backpack, one lunchbox at the ready and one one-way aeroplane ticket I said goodbye once again to my lovely safe home and headed east over the sea to England.

Landing in Birmigham I followed a number of trains to Shropshire where my temporary new position is nestled between the Welsh hills and rolling sheep filled valleys. Here I work the land by day and sleep with the light of a thousand stars shining down by night. Too far from town or village there's little to fill the air here with light or noise unnatural. Sheep, bats, moths, spiders, rabbits, pheasants, foxes, ducks, cows and horses, these are the kings and queens of this rural world.

Post dated from 14 June

a world unesco heritage site

sometimes we hear with our eyes

I have very little to say on explaining the selection of photos below, because as I look at them they speak the thousand words images are supposed to speak and anything I might attempt to say about them would never do justice to the abundance of memories evoked by their content. Let it be.

ohmygoshFALAFEL

journal: a periodical dedicated to a particular subject

BODYFLASK

Chloe and I miss a lot of things from our recent pasts. Living together, living in Edinburgh, working together, working full stop, the list could fill an entire notebook should I write it all down. Chloe, being as talented and creative as she is, remains determinedly hopeful that one of these days everything will sort itself out just fine. Resilient to the repeated rejections of the recent-graduate job seeker, she had an idea. What if we were to collaborate? A long distance, post delivered creative venture where we draw, make and do, in response to the most recent parcel received, following a vague thematic concept of hygge, friendship, cinnamon buns, the seaside and Paul Simon. For now it's an exciting project that could take us somewhere even more interesting in the not too distant future. If you are curious, you can follow our adventure online on instagram @bodyflasks

east to west and back again

a cup and saucer, please

feeling homesick for a place where I cannot return