Barnard Castle Pins and Buttons

The County Bridge at Barnard Castle spanning the River Tees, County Durham

Annoying your Team Brexit friends with this slice of truth. Trust me the excuses they try to make are amazing.

Tory hating opticians will love this topical humour design featuring the words BARNARD CASTLE LOCKDOWN in the shape of an eye test board. Great Christmas present for left wing friends and relatives. For more political designs click brand link.

Always best to test your eyesight while in control of a vehicle on public roads.

Tory hating opticians will love this topical humour design featuring the words BARNARD CASTLE LOCKDOWN in the shape of an eye test board. Great Christmas present for left wing friends and relatives. For more political designs click brand link.

Need an eye test? Head to Barnard Castle!

Barnard Castle by J.M.W. Turner, 1825. Watercolor.

English He-Man Dominic Cummings in his Barnard Castle Power Pose

My mate went to Durham and all I got was this lousy t-shirt and a nasty dose of COVID-19. Lucky Dominic Cummings is legally allowed to break lockdown while we're all forbidden, otherwise I wouldn't even have got that!

The UK PMs No.1 advisor gets an Orwellian make-over.

Barnard Castle Dominic Cummings

This is a view across upper Teesdale, near Barnard Castle in County Durham, North-East England. It was produced from my photograph of an autumn view with a dusting of early snow on the fell-tops, in this Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

Canon 70D F/22 1/30 ISO 160 AWB 10 mm Taken in Barnard Castle a quaint historic market town in North Yorkshire. A single frame was Tone Mapped as a Raw file in HDR FX Pro using the mono Artistic filter as a strating point. It was then resized in On1 Photo 10 using the Genuine Fractals filter.