These have included camping, caravaning, stamp collecting, home brewing, keeping pets, computing, photography, poetry and most recently of all, painting.
I started playing with computers in about 1982, even wrote and had published a short programme in basic. We've had computers in the house ever since but it is only fairly recently that I created my first web site (with the help of IDF), this being my second. I took up photography in the early nineties and was active in a local camera club. I developed and printed my own black & white and colour prints, I even had some minor sucess in club competitions. I have thousands of photographs which I am in the process of getting on to CD's. I now have a digital camera, although most of the pictures on this site are from 35mm film but that is slowly changing. When the mood or the inspiration comes upon me I write poetry, I'm not prolific and have to have some outside influence to motivate me into writing. A chance visit to a garden centre one Sunday afternoon started me on the watercolour painting trail. There was a demonstration by Charles Evans, a sponsered artist, in one hour he had produced a great landscape picture - just as easy as that! Asked what I wanted for Christmas 2002 I said watercolour paints. I got watercolour paints, I got books and videos, I took out a subscription to a magazine, I equipped myself with almost every thing one could need for watercolour painting and I even enrolled at college. There are on the internet several watercolour sites where you can share your work with other and get some useful advice. There are also a lot of sites with photographs on display and help if needed. Poetry isn't that hard to find. Pets and other animals also take up their fare share of cyber space. One day I decided that I would like to show my efforts to a wider audience. I know I don't have a great artistic talent, I'm no David Bailey nor poet laureate and my paintings while much improved, are unlikely to make it into a London Art Gallery. I do what I do for me and if somebody else gets any enjoyment or even a laugh out of it then it's all worth while Hence this web siteThere are very many helpful web sites out there and I list a few here that you might enjoy.