Rules have never been one of my favourite subjects, unless of course it’s the criticising of them. Maybe it’s my rebellious nature, maybe it’s just that adhering to them has always struck me as a lazy or mindless way out. Either way, there are many times that things like the rule of thirds have no [...]

The weather, a typically British thing to talk about and never more so than when it ‘s cold grey and wet. Very wet! For some reason there’s nothing we like more over here than competing, even with the weather itself, to see who can be the most miserable “Good morning! How’s the weather with you?” [...]

I’m English. I think it’s probably true that we have some kind of obsession with ‘the war’ (it’s probably the only time we ever won anything apart from the world cup in ’66!) even though the view of it is somewhat rose-tinted. Both my mother and father were old enough to remember it and I [...]