Travels Around An English Spring…. Graveyards, and the Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes’ Pipe.

Each year I return to Southern England from British Columbia to visit my father, and during late March and early April catch up on what an English spring has to offer. This year was a bit different though, I arrived a little later than usual to attend my step-mother's funeral and take time with my father after the sad event. My father lives to the west of Southampton Water close to the New Forest; and having spent a lot of time filming and taking photographs in the area, I can seldom resist the opportunity to visit places familiar to me…

On the Verge of Something Interesting.

I recently left the West Coast of Canada to visit my father in the U.K. and was surprised at how beautiful 'the old country' still is, despite over the last ten years, having Europe's most rapidly growing population, essentially because more people are arriving than are leaving. I left in 2002 and if I thought the roads were busy then, it is nothing to the way they are now - driving anywhere during rush hour is inadvisable, because more often than not, it takes ages to move only a short distance - but the biggest surprise is what is growing…