The World of Leonardo Morgado

I’ve had an email from a company requesting use of one of my photos from my flickr site.  Instead of trying to explain the content of the email it would be easier if I just quoted it.
Dear Leonardo Morgado,
I recently saw your photo
http://www.flickr.com/photos/towerofbabble/439958847/ on Flickr and I loved how your photo captured the true spirit [...]

Watching this from Young at Heart makes me physically ache and yet it also makes me want to smile at every person I see.

My other half is a keen gardener but due to lack of garden space she decided to get a plot at the local allotments. My involvement has been very poor and so as a way to contribute I’m using my fledgling social media skills to set up a website for Court Lane Allotments.
It’s a [...]

I’ve never been to a book reading before.  There’s no reason for my lack of absence at such an event it’s just something I’ve never got around to doing.  So when I found out that Will Self was coming to the Birmingham Book Festival to read from his new book, Liver: A Fictional Organ with [...]

That precise somewhere is Northfield (where work is) and I’ll be travelling tomorrow from Erdington by bicycle.  My first attempt at using the bike for commuting purposes was last Thursday and it was an up and down affair.  Literally.  I hadn’t realise that Northfield and its environs was such a hilly place and even though [...]

…or more to be more precise here I go again after a long layoff as the blog has been left untouched, unloved and abandoned for a rather long time. All I can offer is my sincerest apologies I’ve been rather busy in life and I’ve possessed feelings of indifference towards this blog. But [...]

I was listening to Radio 4’s Saturday Live yesterday and there was an interview with a man who had been part of the medical team in the British army and had served in Iraq.  He has been going through deep depression, anxiety and suffers from Obsessive Compulsive Disorder to such an extent that he admitted [...]

Spent the day at Blists Hill Victorian Town in Ironbridge. A walk through the past complete with old coinage where one can buy food, look at Victorian industry and drink beer in a pub.
Here is a Flickr slideshow of the day.