: “This is my first post of 2026, the 300th post since I added this blog to my website back in August 2008, and we have just entered the 30th year of existence for this website (which was originally…”
The Hastings Borough Bonfire Society’s Torchlit Procession, October 2025. Photograph by the author.
: “This weekend just past was the Hastings Borough Bonfire Society’s torchlit procession. …”
View out from Agios Georgios Beach on Naxos. Photograph by the author.
: “I’ve just returned from a fortnight-long holiday in Greece—a long weekend in Athens, followed by ten days on the island of Naxos—and I’m feeling fully relaxed for the first time in as long as…”
: “I moved to Hastings a year ago today, so it seems like a good time to look back on how it's gone so far. …”
: “I’m happy to say that a piece of mine—Ritual, Part I, from my England’s Dark Dreaming series—is being exhibited in the Hastings Arts Forum Spring Show from now until May 25th (11am – 5pm…”
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My copy of the festival brochure, the bark mask I wore, and the lucky leaf I managed to get after the Jack had been slain
: “This May Day bank holiday was my first attendance as a local at the Hastings’ Jack in the Green festival - although I had previously travelled from Hove in 2023 to see it and posted some notes and…”
Sunset at Hastings beach. Photograph by the author.
: “Now that I’m settled in I wanted to try to start exploring personal (IndieWeb) websites from people here in Hastings & St Leonards in the UK. …”
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The Hastings Borough Bonfire Society’s Torchlit Procession, October 2024 (showing members of the South Heighton Bonfire Society). Photograph by the author.
: “One thing I’m starting to learn about Hastings is that the people here know how to make their own community entertainment. …”
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My new studio, slowly getting there
: “I’ve been living in Hastings for just over three weeks now: slowly finding my feet. …”
: “It’s goodbye to living in my Hove garret amongst the rooftops, chimneys, and crows because last week I signed the tenancy agreement for a new flat in Hastings, and I’m moving in there this…”
The political colours of south-east England.
: “Late last week in my current Hove & Portslade constituency the Labour MP (and now cabinet minister) Peter Kyle was elected with a reduced majority, and the Tories were pushed into third place behind…”
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The Houses of Parliament, photograph by the author
: “When you’re planning to move home there’s suddenly a day when the place that you’ve called home stops being home in some intangible way, and it instead becomes a departure lounge, and then you…”
Life-drawing from March 2023 by the author
: “I deliberately skipped the archetypal “round-up of 2023” blog post, I’m not entirely sure why. …”
The Hastings Jack in the Green procession 2023 - photograph by author
: “For the first time since I moved down to the south coast I managed to get myself over to Hastings to watch the Jack in the Green festival, coinciding with the fortieth anniversary of it being revived…”