July's salt marsh in full mauve magnificence. July's high tides overturning the blooms of sea lavender were an amazing sight. I found...

Tetney marshes journaling page As I've been living at the Fitties for the last few weeks, I thought I'd take a bike ride along the coast...

Me offering a helping hand to a southern migrant dragonfly that had fallen into the water and got its wings wet. On 24 September myself...

Memories of the hill alongside Cambridge Road. As part of my research into the Seven Hills I asked the ever-helpful Grimsby Memories...

My son really took to swimming off the Fitties beach this summer. I have several friends who are cold-water swimming advocates, but I'd...

Poem for my We Are Marshy Folk project. ' The gulls are the sound of this town, and will continue to be, as land that used to be sea...

Echolands by Duncan Mackay My working days often take place against the background of the podcast The Rest is History . I first heard...

Steve Lovell talk, my notes! As part of my We Are Marshy Folk research I attended an RSPB talk on 15 September. It was by Steve Lovell ...

Display of my Waterworks project As part of my We Are Marshy Folk project, I displayed my In the Shadow of the Water Tower work from 2024...

Sea lavender by the Fitties. This summer as part of my We Are Marshy Folk project I've spent weeks at my chalet by the sea at the...

Inpspired by Woolf's words, 'unless one's to blow out'. The candle in the window flickers with each blow of the breeze. Its yellow...

An illustration from last year's @CreateNEL funded project about the Waterworks Woods in Grimsby. The story of the Waterworks Woods is...

I'm not sure why but I'm feeling the urge to write rather than draw this week. It must be the heat. This piece is about how Grimsby is...

When one stray thought, contaminates the rest, like a red sock in a white wash.

Pelargoniums and petunias. The last day of June. The blood-red blooms of pelargoniums spill from their pots. Petunias, so pink it hurts...

Some thoughts around being the mum of a soon-to-be teenager and our speeded-up world and its impact on the environment. Filling the...

Some thoughts on social media. Some journal pages thoughts on social media. On the one hand, it's great. I love having connections with...

Anxiety Like being crushed, between feeling too much , about what's over and gone , and fretting too much , about whatever's to come ,...

Guided tour of the Humberston Fitties with Binbrook WI. I took a guided walk around the Humberston Fitties yesterday, as part of my work...

Lovely afternoon creating work around islands and water and communication based around thinking around the mounds in the marshes that...