All I need is air
Taking a little too much air to take things off my mind.
Published on 23rd March 2019
Blog posts about Life
I is for introvert
I am an introvert and that's O.K.
Published on 17th March 2019
The anxiety rollercoaster
I've been suffering from anxiety issues for the last year or so. A couple of people have said to me that the topic isn't discussed as much as it could be, so I thought I'd write about my experiences in…
Published on 1st March 2019
When Your Body Says No
“It’s not age that makes you an adult, I see now, or even most of the experiences that age brings. What finally does it is the things you lose along the way. A parent dies; you don’t get the…
Published on 8th January 2019
Saying hello to a better future
I'm moving to Swiss web agency Say Hello as partner, client consultant and full-stack developer from January 2019.
Published on 3rd December 2018
The data we leave behind
Planning for the inevitable in a digital world.
Published on 23rd October 2018
The Day Job
It was inevitable, I suppose, that I would, one day, have to start applying my experience to The Day Job instead of just my hours. Instead of just being the go-to-guy for programming, I’d have to take over a more…
Published on 15th March 2018
A eulogy for my Dad
As I get older, I realize more and more just how long a life actually is. How full of memories and moments one’s life is. It’s so difficult to pack in almost 79 years of a life into…
Published on 21st February 2018
Basse Ville
I regain a holiday feeling by sitting in an old town square, eating pizza, whilst locals perch on a wall, smoking cigarettes before a little bus arrives and rattles them away. Swifts and martins race through the narrow lanes, far above us,…
Published on 4th June 2017
Not a resolution
We all need people in our lives who raise our standards, remind us of our essential purpose, and challenge us to become the best version of ourselves.
Published on 9th January 2017
Live the life you are given
I take photos to document my path through my life. It gives me a good feeling to find a great view and enjoy it, and take it home to look at again in the form of a photograph. I take…
Published on 10th October 2016
Happy birthday, Permanent Tourist!
I wrote and posted my first blog post in this version of my website ten years ago today. To celebrate, I'm reviving the “Photos” section of the site, which will contain my best and my favourite photos.
Published on 20th August 2016
The Audi oil consumption odyssey
My Audi A4 suffers from a known problem with oil consumption, so I've had a stressful few weeks coming to an agreement with Audi Switzerland and the local dealership.
Published on 9th June 2016
H is for Hiking
The long, long progression from being a teenager with a stitch to being a forty-something with a passion for walking.
Published on 8th June 2016
Augen zu und durch
It’s no shock to realize that I’ve been commuting to Bern by car for nearly six years. But what is a shock is that the period of changing from train travel to car travel coincides with the main rise of…
Published on 23rd March 2016
Review of 2015
Another year has flown by, and the approaching festivities remind me that it’s time to look back through my photo archive and be astounded once more by all the happy memories of the past twelve months.
Published on 19th December 2015
G is for Golf
Before photography and the internet, golf was the major hobby in my life for many years, in all its forms.
Published on 3rd September 2015
An Audi at last
In which I take delivery of my shiny new A4 Avant.
Published on 12th March 2015
Farewell to the Four-Wheeled Tripod
Over 150,00km after buying it, we say goodbye to our "four-wheeled tripod".
Published on 5th March 2015
Review of 2014
A blessed year of travel, fun, new and re-discovered sights, and plenty of sore legs.
Published on 17th December 2014
Blogging for myself
A blog is usually started as a place for the author to jot notes and share them with a select few to read; often friends and family. Later, as popularity grows, it’s easy to become drawn into the goal of…
Published on 3rd November 2014
Walking and walking and walking
A need for weight loss, a need for fitness and a desire for reaching less accessible photo viewpoints means that I am walking further and higher than my lazy twenty-something self would've imagined.
Published on 13th October 2014
Big old hill
One of the most challenging hikes I've done: up the steep and winding path through the forest from Beatenberg to the summit of the Niederhorn.
Published on 17th September 2014
Childhood holidays
With hindsight, one of the things which drew me to the home where we now live is how many little details of it are similar to where I spent childhood holidays. Not the mountains, but the sweep of a shore…
Published on 3rd August 2014
An unwanted friendship
If you had a friend who cheated, abused your trust and did everything in order to profit himself, how would you react?…
Published on 30th June 2014
F is for Festival
The latest in a alphabetic series on aspects of my life: this time, the letter F is inspired by this weekend's Glastonbury Festival.
Published on 26th June 2014
E is for Efficiency
The simplest solution is rarely the simplest solution.
Published on 13th May 2014
Review of 2013
With surprising alacrity, it’s time to flick back through my digital album as we approach the end of 2013, and the end of another year behind the camera. Here are a few highlights; a larger set is on Flickr.
Published on 16th December 2013
Working with wood
First attempts at woodwork lead to a stylish and unique coffee table.
Published on 10th November 2013
Six (and nine) years on
If it weren’t for the fact that I have a lovely, daily reminder, it would be difficult to believe that it’s been nine years since I first met Jo in person. We’d started exchanging e-mails ten months earlier and I…
Published on 4th October 2013
After Sieff
Black-and-white memories of a dodgy hotel in the back streets of Paris in the 1990s.
Published on 14th September 2013
“Aareböötle”
I took part in our company day out yesterday, when we went down the river Aare from Schwellenmätteli in Bern, beneath the towering heights of Bern’s old city, to Eymatt, on the north western edge of…
Published on 31st August 2013
Mint choc chip at last!
After more than twelve years in Switzerland, there are few foods or drinks which I miss from the UK. Kenco (instant) coffee is a regular buy when we’re in the UK and we also stock up on pain killer…
Published on 22nd August 2013
A little effort is worth it
Never having been a great one for sport and exercise, and having given up long walks around golf courses when I moved to Switzerland, my legs aren’t up to the challenge of big mountain walks. My knees are a bit…
Published on 20th August 2013
Swimming with the fish
Swimming in the river Aare is a hobby I’ve taken up this year with gusto, having been initiated by colleagues at work last summer. Once past Bern, the river slows down as it meanders through the countryside and the…
Published on 20th August 2013
Remember when…?
Sometimes I remember to take a photo just so that I can look at it one day in the future and say, “do you remember when we used to do this?” One day, this photo will be twenty years ago.
Published on 18th August 2013
D is for Darkroom
(This is one in a series of essays I’m writing about my life. A specific kind of autobiography, I guess. The rest of these essays are here.) “It was amazing to watch him in the darkroom at an advanced age,…
Published on 23rd July 2013
C is for Car
“Man sits in car; dribes.” Judging by this early statement from my childhood, I’ve always been a driver.
Published on 5th July 2013
B is for Blog
Blogging - writing for an unknown audience - has been a part of my life for over twenty years. And I still love it.
Published on 3rd July 2013
A is for Ausländer
Being a foreigner, or Ausländer, is only how other people classify me and what affects my life for better or worse makes me who I am today. I am just a person, formed in character of those experiences which have…
Published on 2nd July 2013