Category: Photography
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A couple of months ago I went into Scratch studio in Liverpool to have an old song of mine remastered. The song, called The Last Fool on Earth, was recorded in about 1983. See, when I said old, I meant, old. The lyric was written by myself, and the music by composer Bob Mouat who…
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I remember in a record shop in Liverpool buying a Dolly Parton single called The Seeker, sometime in the mid 1980’s. Dolly released the song in 1975. I wasn’t aware of the song when it was originally released, but for a while I had really liked it despite it not being one of her biggest…
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In my hometown of Prescot in Merseyside on the 21st and 22nd of August it was the Serious Nonsense Festival which featured lots of great street performers and artists, many dressed in costumes, and a tremendous amount of effort and passion went into them all. Inspired by the area’s historical connection to the nonsense poet…
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Deep in the heart of suburbia, in a small area of Warrington in north-west England, a secret garden of wonder lies out of sight. Down an avenue that looks like any other lives Betty Smith, who has lived quietly there for just over fifty years. Originally from Liverpool, Betty was married to Gordon who passed…
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In the last few months I have had the unenviable task of working through a huge pile of old family photographs and items that needed to be either kept or thrown away. Anyone who has ever been in this position knows how the responsibility can weigh heavily. This can be extra difficult when you are…
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All photos by Paul Ariss. No AI used in production of any images.
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For those of you about to read this blog beware, I may not be who I say I am. I may not even exist. I only mention this because over the last couple of months, authorities in my country have yet to be convinced that my identity is genuine. In this world of identity theft…
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For about 15 years a painting by Alice Dalton Brown hung on the wall in front of me in the small bedroom where I did all my writing. The painting is called Tomorrow Morning. It is a large print, 24” wide and 84” long, and with a nice frame that was of course slightly larger…
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