These are the three stair-cased cottages built for the Jennings Brewery before it moved to Cockermouth in 1874. (The brewery building, off picture to the right, is now the Lorton village hall.) The one on the right, before the yellow cottage, is called ‘Yan Yak’, or One Oak.

A friend's dog.

Based on a photo of a cold winter's (January 6th 2026) evening's stroll back from the pub.

Just as any actor needs at some point to give their Hamlet/Lear/Lady Macbeth, so anyone who wields a brush / iPad pencil in the Lake District needs to offer their Haystacks.

For Ozzy, everything (including humans) is either a toy or an enemy. At the moment of the picture, this bag was stopping being a toy and tranforming into an enemy in Ozzy's little mind.

Sadly, the naive style chose me, not I it.

‘Watching Star Trek’ is, sadly, a representation of an all too typical scene in Thornton Towers. Obviously, the exciting stuff is happening on the TV screen off left. So the scene here is just a large comfy 1997 Ikea sofa and my television co-watchers, though it is merely a passing visit from Ozzy the cat who has a more varied agenda. And, as is, perhaps, psychologically realistic, the rest of the room isn’t salient while Captain Pike faces the Gorn and so I’ve not bothered to fill it in.

I've nominated this as the place to scatter my ashes.

While watching the abysmal Guy Ritchie TV serial Young Sherlock, my regular watching companion attempted to end his life by throwing himself off the back of the sofa. But even a tragedy is an opportunity for an artist. (In fact he failed. See the later, ‘Watching Star Trek’, above.)

We have all painted our own version. Bulky hippos force a smaller cast.

A reconstruction from scratch of a Heskett Newmarket beer bottle label (see below).

When the Chairman is frustrated and bored of his chairmanly duties, he takes his spears and goes fishing.

With calvados and leaning over a lamp. Work needed on the depiction of light!

Ozzy’s pedigree name is ‘Ozzy: Prince of Darkness’ but he is also known as ‘OzBad-the-Bad’.

Reluctant to return to urban Kendal and succumb to the next Covid Lockdown, this is Lois enjoying a final sunset as seen from the snowy lower slopes of Ladyside Pike.