Monthly Archives: May 2025

Unparalleled Misalignments

An excellent Daily Create today: Unparalleled Misalignments are “pairs of non-synonymous phrases where the words in one phrase are each synonyms of the words in the other.” Did you see what we did there in the title of today’s Daily … Continue reading

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The seven stages of writing

Biting my truant pen, beating myself for spite, “Fool,” said my Muse to me, “look in thy heart, and write.” Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophil and Stella. I used to agonise over how I wrote, because it seemed to be so … Continue reading

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Silent Sunday

140/365 Organize right flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license

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Silent Sunday

135/365 Roses are Orange flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license

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Silent Sunday

Mugdock flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license

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Castle in the Sky

Today’s Daily Create asks us to: Design your version of a castle in the sky. Make a drawing or an image of your castle in the sky (note that make does not mean “make a google search for someone else’s image”) I found a … Continue reading

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Silent Sunday

View over Loch Lomond flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license

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Ross Priory

After a busy few months at work it was lovely to get away this week. Niall booked the Lochside Cottage at Ross Priory for a few days and we drove up after lunch on Monday. An oyster catcher was watching … Continue reading

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120 days of 2025

Another month gone, another 30 photos.  Here’s the 120 days of 2025 so far

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