iPhone Tripod Mount
Here’s the ultimate hands-free accessory for your iPhone. It’s a tripod mount made from an old music cassette shell (the transparent bit) glued to an old camera mount thread. I snipped a side piece away with pliers so that the iPhone can slide in. I also added a bit of foam-board padding underneath to keep the phone nice and stable. Just set your iPhone shooting and slide in, you can view the action through the c

Sherwood Air Raid
Today we had a trip out to Walesby Forest Scout Camp where my son has been learning to canoe. The centre is located within 250 acres of Sherwood Forest and the landscape appeared very familiar to me. Growing up with Sherwood Forest as a childhood playground instilled a natural affinity for its myths and mystery. In the 70’s we engaged in a traditional form of play which seems strangely alien these days. My paren

Friendly feather
I found a feather on my dewy lawn on Sunday 13th September 2009, shortly before embarking on a family trip to Skegness. During WWI and II the white feather symbolised cowardice and was offered to non-combatants as a form of challenge. But the white feather does have other meanings. As a child growing up in the 1960’s I learned that a white feather indicates the spiritual presence of a deceased friend or loved one.

Enquire Within – A Victorian adventure
In the early 1970’s my adopted Grandmother Alice Meason gave me a book that bore the intriguing title ‘Enquire Within Upon Everything’. She had been presented with the book in 1915 as a reward for good attendance at the Rosemary Girls’ “Evening” School. Although the book’s origins went back to the Victorian era, some of it’s carefully catalogued entries contained common sense advice that still seemed relevant to me as a boy. ‘Enquire Within’ became a favourite part of my personal library wh

Left Lion, write lion
I thoroughly enjoyed the presentation by Left Lion at the Nottingham Writer’s Studio last night. Often mistaken for a student gig-listing, Nottingham’s Left Lion website is emerging as a cultural hub for creative pursuits within and around Nottingham. The three main protagonists Jared Wilson, James Walker and Al Needham delivered anecdotes and admitted differences as diverse as the publication itself. Subjects such as Nottingham’s Xylophone Man, the legen