A shot from the metro escalator that just feels very Dutch to me

Amsterdam downpour Amsterdownpour

A shot from Our Lord in the Attic museum in Amsterdam — a Catholic church that was built inside a house during the Protestant ‘alteration’

back home staring at the mantelpiece

some amsterdam cafe doodles

Holland trip — cabin in the woods -> amsterdam

#sketchbook #doodle #sketch #netherlands

quick edinburgh doodle from the top of calton hill

Sketchbook update

Finished reading: City Of Illusions by Ursula K. Le Guin 📚

Found it quite hard to get through this one even though it’s got the hallmarks of a page-turner. Maybe because of my distracted state, maybe because of the densely typeset 80s edition I was reading, but also partly because it’s so descriptive in world-building that I didn’t want to skim over anything.

As with much of sci-fi, a critique of colonisation and compartmentalisation of the exploitation and deception carried out in its pursuit. Questions of selfhood and identity and the concept of destiny.

Rainy Loch Achray

Lost in the woods

Lost in Devon

Warrington Bank Quay, April 2025

London in Feb