For health reasons, I’ve had to give up eating sugary and fatty stuff. So, what has NOT eating cake, ice cream and no alcohol done to me (besides, of course, stripping any joy out of my life I’ve become suspiciously skinny… in exactly one place. My stomach has shrunken, but my thighs and backside are Read more

I am now getting back into my art projects after a period of health problems. Here are several examples from my ‘Thinking Things project’. Do things think? Who knows? Well ok, bear with me… What if they did think … What would they be thinking? That is the Thinking behind my ´Thinking Things´ project And an Read more

I’ve been late with this blog post, as due to not being able to work because of drilling coming from my neighbour and my normal chronic pain being even worse because of the noise. Anyhow, last week I was listening to the BBC UK News , and an item came up about slugs chomping through Read more

When Fred was at the vet recently (having the dreaded finger-up-the-bottom anal gland drainage) we put him on the scales and discovered he’d put on nearly a kilo. You can just imagine his reaction to this news … “The vet said I should watch my weight, but what does he know? OK, yes, he’s a Read more

This is Fred, our rescue pooch … We adopted him from Terra Blanca, a local refuge. He’d been there for several weeks, having been rescued from the mean streets of Tenerife—and that’s all we know about his backstory. We’re not even sure of his age or what breed he is—possibly a Pyrenean Shepherd … There are hardly Read more