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This isn't so much a blog as a loose assembly of things that occured, failed to occur, or just occurred to me. Feel free to disagree with my opinions and question my facts - I make no claims to wisdom or erudition. Well, actually I lay claim to both, right up until - and usually after - I'm proved wrong.
Those looking for meaning, reason or enlightenment would be well advised to try Immanuel Kant, Thomas Paine or Gilbert O'Sullivan.
I mentioned finding David Bremner's blog in my last post. Yesterday I had the chance to meet him and his fellow restorer, Theo Willford,...
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I've just completed the second of The Larks aircraft. This time it's the Bristol Scout that Colin Hingley takes over, much to...
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I had the very pleasant opportunity today to look closely at Matthew Boddington's BE2c replica and to chat with Matthew and several...
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The first illustration for The Larks series is complete. It's the BE2c of which Andy finds himself the reluctant pilot, while Colin...
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I enjoyed doing the Wellington picture so much that I'm now going to work through all of the aircraft in The Larks and Maybe It's...
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I'm reading a piece this evening at City Central Library in Stoke on Trent. Two talented authors, Jan Edwards and Misha Herwin have...
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As a bit of light relief I've been sketching out the aircraft that provides most of the airborne activity in Maybe It's Tonight. The illustration...
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A project to write and design information displays for a VC10 bound for Al Mahatta Air Museum (more about that here) brought me to a place...
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I must have taken this photo at least a hundred times, and every time it's different. It's the view from the front door of a...
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The annual storytelling café at the Gladstone Pottery Museum fell on Hallowe'en this year, so we all hammed it up accordingly...
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