Here’s another painting, this time inspired by the piles of rubbish on the ground by Mombasa Road, across which I used to walk to get to the BP cafe for lunch. (I walked across the ground, not the rubbish. There wasn’t that much!)

I have no opportunity to vote either way in the Conservative’s vote of confidence in their leader, since I am not a Conservative MP. If I was given a vote it would be a difficult choice though. Would I vote to keep Iain Duncan Smith and doom the Tories to failure, or would I vote ...

This is a painting I did earlier this week, which is based on Langata Road in Nairobi, Kenya. It doesn’t look very good in the photo, because there’s too much light reflecting on it and the colours at far brighter than in reality – it’s actually a lot browner than that. Anyway, it’s inspired by ...

While I was driving to Leicester yesterday to see my parents, I saw this van on the road in front of me. It looked so like a matatu, right down to the dents in the back, that I just had to photograph it. While I was at home I saw this nice sunset, and managed ...

I just had a look through the log files on my mail server and discovered than in the last month and a half, 3183 emails have been sent to me, which is an average of 69 a day. 1805 of those email were automatically deleted by my spam filter, and out of the other 1378 ...

Yesterday after the church service we had lunch in the Boys’ Club (that’s where we meet for church). Soup and sandwiches as usual. It’s nice to have food provided, but it does mean I don’t get to go and have a real meal at a pub. Fortunately I got to go to Barry’s birthday dinner ...

This morning I got bored of sitting at home so I went out for a random drive, and ended up in Berkswell. I stopped to take some photos because it looked quite nice there. As a result I have my first set of photos in the England section of the photos pages. I also discovered ...