Edito

Edito: Gallery 207

This is my first time writing this, which probably explains why I’ve left it until the final hour. I’m in the passenger seat of Gallery’s delivery van, typing in...

Good things come to those who create.

In the past I’ve characterised the production of a magazine in this intro as...

Fifty shades of feathers. 

I think it started with a pun. It wasn’t even original, postmodern at best. The...

Everything changes.

A year ago I thought we might be in Gallery’s twilight. With our 20th...

I’m melting.

Humans have been around for 300,000 years, but the concept of a subculture has...

Look on the bright side.

It’s pretty much June. As I type this it’s blowing a gale outside and the hail  last night was almost biblical. As we were...

Is it good to be busy?

There’s an old adage that says, If you want something done, ask a busy person’. It’s a phrase that has been around since before...

New = normal.

You can go into a bar this weekend and order your IPA without a steak on the side. Yep, a drink, without a substantial...

A time to have people around you.

I don’t want to tempt fate, but despite the UK being in their second lockdown, it feels as though there’s light at the end...

Getting our house(wives) in order.

I grew up thinking Jersey was a dangerous place, full of crime. Thankfully, within the average half-hour timeframe, DS Bergerac seemed to have it...

The lawn is always greener

This week I heard someone say they had Covid. Just when you thought it was all over, someone uses the word and memories come...

Absence and fondness

I saw an Instagram reel the other day where the aspiring parent-influencing content creator claimed that holidays aren’t holidays once you have children; you just spend time looking after your kids in a different location. I suppose that’s true, to an extent. Regardless, like many islanders with children, we hot-foot it onto a ferry or plane at half term to make use of those precious moments away from the school run. I’m finishing up this edition while being asked what’s for dinner, but in France. Magnifique. 

There’s no ‘i’ in Gallery… 

but there is in iPlayer, which has been essential company throughout the process of finishing this edition. I’ve had Olympics coverage playing pretty much...

The Spring of our discontent

Well. That was that then. Covid-19 phase one. 12 weeks of bizarre life re-assessment, 1 hour (then 2) beach trips, 5 kilometre runs, 6...

Here come the girls.

I’m not a fan of LinkedIn. I imagine it to be a den of sycophantic suits that I don’t really feel part of. They...

All is calm, all is bright.

Christmas Day is almost here, the epicentre of the seasonal earthquake. You’ve probably been buying mince pies since October and justifying the consumption due...

A lot changes, a lot stays the same.

I like to think of myself as pretty forward-looking, but as this little magazine project I undertook hits a twenty year milestone, I can’t...

Taking it slow.

Through the wonder of digital, here's the intro after it got proofed as it appears the pre-proof version went in the magazine. Urgh.... It’s not...

Fear of the Unknown

We made it. 200 editions. It’s a big round number isn’t it? It’s sort of like when the Christian world celebrated the number 2000...

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