At 6.30am there is a quiet coffee with my wife, then I wake my son and steal his sleepy warmth as I carry him down the stairs. Then later, I …
Babylondon
Last night, united in proseco and the pandemonium of a muggy Friday in Londinium, DT and I wiped the mercury around our toppers, adopted canes and capes and forged the …
The hidden familiar
I thought I knew my area pretty well. Most Sundays I’ll take the car out and try out some new single track road peeling away from the coast and into …
Ambition Sniffles
I caught some footage – just in the passing, you unnerstand – of the handover of power in the UK from Blair to Brown. I now have a few months …
Closer to Lee
The plot thickens. In the wake of my plea regarding Lee Miller I have now been pointed towards a Florida based Cuban photographer who is a card carrying recruitment officer …
Michael Begg is in love with Lee Miller
For so long now I have been looking for a large scale print of Scherman’s portrait of Lee Miller in Hitler’s bath tub. The search has put me in to …
face to place
But then.. I can look at a face and associate it with a small, defined location – not Glasgow, but East Kilbride. Not Edinburgh, but Currie. You know the local …
Timepiece 2
As a reference back to timepiece 1 my wife has bought me a new watch. Conveniently, we were staying in a hotel in a city that was not our own …