MAURILIA STATION

Towards a ‘country ramble’ Following on from last month’s instalment, I’m pleased to report that as I write this, the pace of life, projects, work and everything else has settled into something that feels genuinely manageable.

This is not (yet) my beautiful quietude As 2025 tumbled through the sky in a coil of blackened burnout, I’d resolved that 2026 would be a purposefully quieter year on the creative front.

A bit late on this.

Just a quick one to let you know that I’ll be rolling the February activity into the March update in a couple of weeks.

Introduction (notes on 20 years of blogging) As I was writing up the surrounding items for this month’s post it occurred to me that I’ve been maintaining blogs for 20 years.

Following last month’s extensive write-up on a week of travels in Scotland during October, I’ve decided to rein things in and give the travel writing a pause for this month and stick to ‘business as usual’.

In October I embarked on a long overseas vacation with my partner Lauren.

When I’m a bit older and I reflect on 2025, I might enter the vault of this blog, locate the few slabs representing 2025, squint at the scrawls and various images representing my creative activities and think to myself, “Hmm..that was a bit of a strange y…

Following a necessary pause last month, Here’s a round up of what I got up to during April and May.

Given that last month’s blog update was solely updated to the emerging stygofauna project, I wanted to feature, well…more than one thing this month.