BOOK REVIEW: Bitter sweet stories from middle America that are universal in their ordinariness
A Spool of Blue Thread, By Anne Tyler Meet the family. There’s Abby and Red in their extended domesticity, Junior…
JOURNALISM: how one street in Somerset has changed in just 45 years
How one street in Somerset has changed in the last 45 years. Then (1973) and now – Cross Street in…
REVIEW NOVEL: Apparently, fat Americans are nice – that’s about the extent of the theme in McCall Smith’s novel – it makes you want to go on a diet in protest
Fatty O’Leary’s Dinner Party, By Alexander McCall Smith Not so much a comic novel more the defense of fat folk.…
PHOTOGRAPHY Somerset: Dunball Wharf and the River Parrett on a late winter’s afternoon
These photographs are taken as part of my travels for work in Somerset as a journalist. I’m always amazed by…
POEM: whether to get up to go to the toilet in the night
Toilet dreams It’s three in the morning, I want to go and I’ve become uncomfortable aware, That I need to…
CARICATURE: good luck card
Cartoons, illustrations and caricatures. New commissions always welcome via email on harryfmottram@gmail.com. www.harrymottram.co.uk Also on Facebook and Twitter as Harry The Spiv.
CARTOON: SignLink and the suicide sales pitch
New cartoon for SignLink magazine based on an editorial about how not to sell signage. New commissions always welcome via…
PHOTO: Cheddar Reservoir at dawn today
Another superb sun rise looking across to the Mendip Hills in Somerset. 16 January 2016
REVIEW: Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
Brrr. The rags to rags not coming of age story of Ruthie in freezing Fingerbone Housekeeping. by Marilynne Robinson You…
Photography: Cheddar Reservoir in Somerset at dawn (and even at dusk)
It’s a bit of a thing with me: Cheddar Res! So I’ve made a page for the photos I have…
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