Designed a simple website for Comedy in the Park this weekend. Comedy in the open air with some of the UK’s finest comedians is a great event. Comedian Steve Rawlings is simply hilarious – juggling large knives while standing on a seat in the middle of the audience, or juggling with fire while slowly catching fire himself – he has performed for the last 2 years. A great event if you are in Leeds this summer! I have three more websites to design in the next two weeks, so better get on….

A beautiful spring-like afternoon proved too tempting, so it was out with the camera and off into the woods. I photographed a carpet of snowdrops and fresh green moss, but it was these tree fungus that really caught my eye. They resemble coral or pencil shavings and you really could spend hours photographing them.

Corks, something to hold the wine in your bottle or a symbol of mankind’s inventiveness? A functional object and yet one oozing with character. There is the quality of cork wood itself in a wide range of shades and textures. Vineyards and designers add logos, illustrations of vines and chateau, country of origin, symbols and messages. The infinity of styles and ideas reflects mankinds ability to be inventive and constantly find a different way to do even the simplest of things. My favourite – the one that said “Enjoy” – like a personal message from the vineyard owner to the drinker.

Sadly corks are slowly being replaced with plastic stoppers and screwtops, in order to prevent corking. Less corking is great news for the wine drinker but you can’t help but feel a little bit of the pleasure of the wine experience is being removed.