So it seems that one of my photos (I really ought to upload some of them to DA, but as I see myself primarily as a painter, I forget I have other skills/talents) has been shortlisted in a photography competition.

The photo


Was taken at about 7.15am on Kudle Beach, Gokarna, India when I was having breakfast.
I'd actually spotted the bull wander past the previous morning and had to wait 24 hours for him to wander past again so I could get the shot. And, being as I took the shot with an ordinary compact film camera, I didn't even know how good it was until the photo was developed back in the UK several months later.

You can read about the competition and the subsequent (not to mention imminent)exhibition here [link]

Needless to say I'm quite excited by the prospect of the whole thing

It's my birfday soon

On the 15th in fact...

Just in case anyone was thinking they needs to show their love and/or appreciation for me with some overblown and nexpensive presents

No pressure

OK so I've solved the mystery from the previous journal entry.

I've finally gotten round to cleaning the window, It turns out that what I was seeing everyday wasn't in fact the stygian figure of death beckoning to me from afar, but actually an old man flipping the bird.

So that's a great weight off my mind...

Ok,

You might think me a little crazy but, today I swear that I saw the blurred, stygian figure of the Grim Reaper beckoning at the window...

again...

My tshirts

that you have all been flocking to buy in your droves... And where did you get those droves? I've been looking to get one of them myself... Are now being availabled with added text. So those poems, that you've been failing (it would seem) to notice, that accompany each of the animals and carrots, are soon to be appearing on the shirts themselves.

You can see an example of such here [link]

Others to come shortly. Now I just need to write a poem about a frog....