Wall to Wall Art
Gary Cook Gary Cook

Wall to Wall Art

Its been an era of wall art, sign-writing and murals. My brief to myself is always, art to be photographed and put a smile on your face.

Read More
Rowing in a washing machine
Gary Cook Gary Cook

Rowing in a washing machine


If we had rowed out into that sea on a normal club session we would have turned around and gone to the pub. But today was a regatta day. Our home regatta. We were playing hosts to teams from Teignmouth, Plymouth, Carrick, Dorset and even Kent. Plus a breakaway club called Jurassica who have been winning everything recently.
The sea conditions for the first part of the races which ran alongside the beach, were fine but as the course turned away and up the deep-water channel there were a lot of messy swelly waves waiting to greet us.
I was in the…

Read More
Be careful what you sign up to
Gary Cook Gary Cook

Be careful what you sign up to

It serves me right for not reading the brochure for the 'holiday of a lifetime' properly. You see I've always been a slow reader, I would have been…

Read More
The drum is calling my name
Gary Cook Gary Cook

The drum is calling my name

A company invents the perfect product to do a job and the market loves it. To keep the factory open, they need to keep selling it and to make profits they need to sell more and more each year. They keep trying to invent new improved versions but that just gets harder and harder. Then some bright spark comes up with the idea of 'built-in obsolescence' in other words they use thinner metal or weaker joints - so that their product is designed to break and then the customer

Read More
Exmouth Arts goes Underground
Gary Cook Gary Cook

Exmouth Arts goes Underground

What has been fantastic is the response of local residents who have shown they share my sense of humour with lots of great comments on…

Read More