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Last time it was fairies and other flights of fancy. I think many of us enjoyed the opportunity for a spot of magical-thinking. This new edition of the Kick-About begins with the no less improbable city of Ersilia, one of Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities – a conurbation of string!
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Long Weekend, directed by Colin Eggleston in 1978, is one of my favourite things. Here’s why.
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The clocks have gone back. The weather is rotten. It’s time to get comfortable with a cuppa and biscuit and pick-up where we left off with Kyp Finnegan and Atticus Weft at the mercy of the ankle-snatchers…
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I can’t really remember very much about this photograph, except it was very likely taken up on the cliff top paths of Polperro, Cornwall, sometime in the early part of the 2000s. I can tell you the insect pictured is a Six Spot Burnett, the wildflower is Purple Vetch, and that this photograph was taken…
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We left the house late on Tuesday afternoon, the sun already leaving the sky. The wind was getting up too, so by the time we arrived at Knave’s Ash, the camera was struggling. That said, as is often the case, limitations gave rise to some pretty dream-like results, the orangey light from the already-set sun…
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In Chapter 7 of Chimera Book 1, Kyp Finnegan finds himself all alone in the Bedrock Catacombs after narrowly escaping the clutches of Madame Chartreuse and her two henchmen, the Berserker and the Tealeaf. Like everything in the world of Chimera, the Bedrock Catacombs are comprised of abandoned things – in this instance, all those…
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Getting Lost in Fields is a series of little films prompted into life by the Kick-About #6, which saw me attempt to further evoke the rhapsodic sensations of being out and about with my camera in the fields of Kent during the Spring lock-down. I didn’t know there would be a fourth film – or…
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It’s time to pop the kettle on, toast those crumpets and grab a handful of Jammie Dodgers as we rejoin Kyp Finnegan after last week’s close encounter with Madame Chartreuse, in Chapter 7 of Chimera Book 1, read by Dan Snelgrove.
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Actor Dan Snelgrove has been working really hard in his home recording studio giving his heart and soul to his reading of Chimera Book 1. We’ve released six chapters so far, with the sixth chapter introducing the story’s principle villain, the alluring and sinister, Madame Chartreuse. Getting under the skin of all these larger-than-life characters…
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There’s a lot of it about at Red’s Kingdom this week, ethereal beings and diaphanous figures that may or may not be tricks of the light or just a photographer’s sleight of hand.
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