by Steve Tanham
📩 humorous photos, fright. 17 words. One minute read) Winter shadows are great fun. The strong sun, coming in at a low angle, creates images of high contrast. Many of these carry a degree of humorous ‘threat’: the kind one can imagine on the cover of a dark novel. The ‘intruder’ appeared when I was framing the shot of Tess, sitting on a bench. … Read More Malign Shadows!
by Steve Tanham
It was happening very quickly… I looked at the collie – Tess. She looked back at me, equally confused. The boot lid continued to descend towards us… It won’t make any sense unless I back it up a bit. Once a week, we go to Grange-over-Sands to do our fresh-food shopping. The small but lovely seaside resort has a ‘one of everything’ approach to … Read More Confusion under the boot lid
by Steve Tanham
Fandango’s FOWC Friday challenge asked us to make creative use of the word ‘askew’. Here’s my offering… Photo taken at Laxey on the Isle of Man, last week, and post-processed to look like an old postcard…too many ‘p’s’ in there, if you ask me, not to mention ‘post’s. Mutter, mutter. ©Stephen Tanham 2023 Stephen Tanham is a writer, mystical teacher and Director of the … Read More ‘Askew’ – Fandango’s one word challenge
by Steve Tanham
There’s a ferry across this largest of Donegal’s Lochs. It takes you, with car, from Bruncrana to Rathmulan, on the far shore. It departs from the end of the pier, as in the shot above, which is how we first encountered it. If it’s not raining, that is, or too blowy … or if it’s not September, when the summer timetable is replaced by … Read More Breakfast at Tank and Skinny’s
by Steve Tanham
My wife and her sister had just left to do some local shopping. I was set to take the two dogs – one ours, the other minded for two friends touring northern Spain – onto the nearby beach for their second run of the day. It was a prospect neither seemed keen on… My mind had registered the lowering sky … but only subconsciously. … Read More The extra coffee
by Steve Tanham
It was all entirely accidental, though no-one would believe me, later. A flock of birds flying low over Derwent Water drew my camera eye away from the colourful couple in front of me, their dogs (one could only assume they were their dogs) barking at them as though they were in charge of the outing and hadn’t approved the new storyboard. I love these … Read More The bemused dog with the people with the complementary umbrellas
by Steve Tanham
St Peter’s Church, Heysham, is simply beautiful. I’ve written about it, before. But there’s a rumour that something unusual is hidden on one of the gravestones. Equipped with the knowledge that its existence is real, we go looking… Past the flower gardens with the hidden benches. Down the slope towards the sea, but stop… Beside the grave that seems to be visited more than … Read More Poet, Philosopher and …
by Steve Tanham
You may not have been there… You may not be a ‘dog person’. Heaven knows I wasn’t. Cats were my thing. A lifetime of cats; beautiful furry, purry creatures that are haughty and mysterious and can manipulate space, time … and place, when you’re looking for them. But few of them would wait by your side when you’re having a sandwich in the garden … Read More Been there…
by Steve Tanham
Just you and me along the prom As far as eye can see Assuming eye can see at all Within this silent storm We could be settled by a fire With crackle-snap of logs Instead, we tread in sodden pools Could dullness get much higher? This masochistic love of dogs Companions of the heart Is strange to fathom, hard to square Yet, seldom we’re … Read More Just you and me along the prom
by Steve Tanham
I’ve been following Di over at Pensitivity101 for many years, now. Like the rest of us, she’s had her ups and downs, but always weathers them and comes out cheerful and positive. She’s got a great sense of humour. She hosts ‘Fibbing Friday’. This week, she offers us the chance to spend a few minutes lying, as amusingly as possible, about the authors of … Read More But Fun…
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by Steve Tanham
Looking back, it could have been the sunshine… The bright blue sky was such a contrast to the cold grey clouds of Cumbria in early March. But it wasn’t. There was something about the shape of Faro2 that actually spoke to me… It looks crazy – the words emerging on the screen here. Sounds even more lunatic putting it into a mystically oriented blog-slot, … Read More Faro2 : The Shape that fell to Earth
by Steve Tanham
The ‘great white hotel’, as we called it, began across the road from where our small apartments ended. Its elegant, curving facade made it one of the most impressive of the ‘grand hotels’ on the Atlantic island of Gran Canaria. Majestically, it hugged the line of the small ‘wadi’: a set of wide waterways designed to absorb the floodwaters from the nearby mountains. “There … Read More Teach your Children
Sun in Gemini 
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