It's probably the JAPANESE BOOKBINDING section that's brought you here, but please take a couple of minutes to look around the Assemblage Art, Book Art, Photography and Discussion areas.

Also, brand new for 2008, a small, temporary show of ATCs (Artists' Trading Cards) at the Mermaid Café.

I hope you enjoy yourself here…

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2012 OLYMPICS
It's just two weeks of sport in a London suburb.

CHRISTMAS DOCTOR WHO SPECIAL 'THE NEXT DOCTOR'
Clever and poignant plot, visually stunning.
If you missed it, try the BBC iPlayer or the official Dr Who site.

THE WORLD AND ITS PEOPLE are going through a tough time.
Cheer yourself up by reading my THREE FAVOURITE JOKES.

BROKEN PROMISES IN AFGHANISTAN
Farmers in Afghanistan agreed to stop growing opium poppies, in exchange for the promise of a road, an irrigation channel and a clinic.
Now, a year on, the farmers are growing wheat, vegetables and maize… but the governement has still not made good on its promise.

WALLANDER
The most beautifully filmed tv drama I can remember seeing. Almost every shot would make a lovely still photograph, and the 'LensBaby' and aerial shots were wonderful.

OLIVER POSTGATE 1925–2008
Today Oliver Postgate, creator of the wonderful, whimsical, surreal programmes that provided the background for generations of now middle-aged people's childhood, sadly died. Obituary. Retrospective. Tribute.

FINANCIAL MELTDOWN
Woolworths... MFI... The Pier...
Walking down my local high street, it feels like Great Britain PLC is having a closing-down sale. Never mind, though; the banks are trying to put things right by doing exactly the same things that got us into this mess in the first place.

As Dominic Lawson once said, "Bankers are cowards and will die a thousand deaths".

WORLD AIDS DAY
December 1 2009 – take care, people.

LIVING IN INTERESTING TIMES
The Titanic of the world economy has hit the iceberg of bankers' greed; while governments rearrange the deck chairs, we citizens are left humming "Nearer, My God, To Thee".

BARACK OBAMA – a new beginning for the USA
I've not heard of or spoken to a single European who isn't delighted (and relieved) about the election result.

All americans must be so proud and excited... like we in the UK were when we elected Tony Blair in the time before he Judased out on us with an illegal war.

WAR ON TERROR – a top tip
The WAR ON TERROR could be won easily with Valium®. What is needed is a War on Terrorism or a War on Terrorists.

Mermaid Café
now reopened – please drop in to see and swap the Artists' Trading Cards,
loads of new work added 27 March 2008

Chinese Café
now reopened – please drop by for a chat about music,
27 August 2006

Winning Hearts and Minds in Iraq. Not.
'The carnage, the blown-up bodies I saw… Why? What was this for?'

Three of my photos featured in top UK photo magazine Photography Monthly. Click the cover image to the left to see them.