Plan B......

Plan B has not been very successful so far..... I've been trying to work with a group who are part of a community called Twelve Tribes. They all live together in a large house sharing a faith in Yahshua (which is a Hebrew name for son of God), in order to forge a new culture and a different way of life. As part of this life they bake bread to sell in local markets which also helps them to integrate into the local community. I have visited a few times and had dinner with the group (which was delicious!), I feel like this is a place I would like to explore further, but I have yet to be invited to go for a little longer.
So with these difficulties in mind I have now gone on to plan C......
I seem to have jumped around a lot these last few weeks and have found it hard to find the right project to focus on, I'm conscious I have not been able to stick with anything as yet. I hadn't planned for my first, and my second idea to go wrong which has made me feel very confused. It's definitely been a learning process trying to gain access to these places and realise it's hard to work with people when you only have a short time to get to know them. I think I have been focussing on the 'right' project too much instead of just getting out there and making some pictures.

Spring project

So moving onto our spring project, my plan A of doing a story at Blackborough House has gone slightly haywire. Bit of history about the house - It was built in Italianate style for the fourth and last Earl of Egremont, a member of the Wyndham family, in 1838-40, but was never finished. In the 1940's it had a brief stint as a youth hostel, and then was used by Quakers as a safe haven for refugees from the Nazi regime. It is a grade 2 listed house and is now run as a car scrapyard by the current owners.
It's a wonderful overgrown place with loads of vintage cars now being reclaimed by nature. Most of the house is slowly falling down with the owners living in one part.
I managed a few happy visits with the idea of doing a longer term project but now the owners have gone away and I won't have access for a while.... Sigh.....I was enjoying wandering round the place stepping back in time and imagining living in all that grandeur....So I guess it's on for Plan B for me.

Let the blogging begin

So here is my first offering as a new blogger - some picture from my Oxford Street series.