Just to let everyone know that even though the residency is finished and I’m back home, I will be uploading more material from the last day.

But first I have a busy schedule, I have to finish this web site by the end of the week!

Thanks for your patience.

It’s now the end of the residency and I’m typing this in the coffee shop opposite the hotel I’ve been staying in. It’s very busy today in Hathersage, a sunny Spring Sunday certainly does attract people to this area. It seems that taking in the landscape is big business in post-industrial contemporary Britain.

I’m really [...]

My walk today had a totally different character to yesterday. This had a lot to do with the weather and my choice of route to Bamford. I went on the “Derwent Valley Heritate Trail”, the prominence of which on the map should have alerted me to it’s popularity. At the start were clumps of goretexed [...]

The goal of my walk today, as I stated here before heading out, was Bamford, a village I’d spent a few weeks in in 1978 when I was 12. I can’t remember anything very much about this holiday at all, or rather I can’t remember Bamford at all and wanted to know if going back [...]

Believe it or not, today is the Vernal Equinox, that astronomical event when the day is as long as the night. I can’t believe that we are a quarter of the way through the year, the snow I saw yesterday clinging to the foot of Stannage Edge made me feel that the Winter has not [...]

I slept like a log last night and found it hard to keep my eyes open past 11pm, I felt so tired, physically and mentally. Yesterday was so rich, I think I’ll be unpicking it for some time. I meant to post some of the pictures that made the 16 second video because I really [...]

I’m very tired, being out that long is not what I’m used to, hurrying to get my daughter to nursery or back and spending the rest of the day in front of a laptop.

But however attractive walking all day sounds, I only allowed myself two points to sit down and draw or write. I [...]

It’s occurring to me, as I sit for a while (the GPS track might tell me how long) that what drawing really does is force you to stop, if only for a while. Something that some aspects of digital life, especially mobile applications, encourage or at least enable is constant motion.

However, getting more into [...]

Just had breakfast in the intimidatingly luxurious hotel dining area, feeling very scruffy in my un-ironed shirt and fleece which would normally pass unnoticed in my natural habitat, I feel a bit too conspicuous – a polar bear in a coal mine (can’t think of a better analogy at the moment).

I plan a day [...]

Going Solo – kind of tricky in this populated island. Eating Solo – you can count on this if you’re travelling alone. I guess I had my lunch (M&S sandwiches) sitting at the same table as a business man on the train but I don’t count that as eating with someone. We hardly exchanged eye [...]

As I mentioned, I’ve been experimenting with free and open source software and my little eeepc which I’ve rigged up to take photographs every 5 / 10 minutes.

Tonight I went for a first walk round Hathersage, starting my GPS map of the town and taking the web cam / eeepc combination out for the [...]