Rod Duncan
@rodduncan.bsky.social
Writer. Writing mentor. Printmaker. Photographer. Lecturer. Dyslexia. Aphantasia. ADHD. PhD. Shortlisted for the Philip K Dick Award & the John Creasey Dagger. He/him.
Question - hypothetically, if someone came up with a means of using this packaging for colograph printing, would the chocolate become tax deductible against earnings on their wider creative endeavours?
#askingforafriend
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December 5, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Question - hypothetically, if someone came up with a means of using this packaging for colograph printing, would the chocolate become tax deductible against earnings on their wider creative endeavours?
#askingforafriend
#askingforafriend
Kitchen table snapshot.
December 5, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Kitchen table snapshot.
Mark making. Loosening up. Process not product.
December 5, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Mark making. Loosening up. Process not product.
Tomorrow I get my reward for all that editing... a bit of time on visual art. I have no idea what I'm going to do. Take my camera into the city perhaps? Get out the charcoal and make some marks? Acrylic paint and gelplate? Inks and paper? Any other suggestions?
December 4, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Tomorrow I get my reward for all that editing... a bit of time on visual art. I have no idea what I'm going to do. Take my camera into the city perhaps? Get out the charcoal and make some marks? Acrylic paint and gelplate? Inks and paper? Any other suggestions?
I'm calling an end to this edit. There's more to be done, of course. But there always will be. The only limit on editing is a deadline. I actually gave myself till tomorrow to finish it. But it's become too stressful and I need a better sleep tonight. Now it goes to 'S' for proofreading.
December 4, 2025 at 12:01 PM
I'm calling an end to this edit. There's more to be done, of course. But there always will be. The only limit on editing is a deadline. I actually gave myself till tomorrow to finish it. But it's become too stressful and I need a better sleep tonight. Now it goes to 'S' for proofreading.
Walking in order to do more editing without turning into a couch potato.
December 3, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Walking in order to do more editing without turning into a couch potato.
The Christmas cactus getting ready for its big day.
December 2, 2025 at 10:55 AM
The Christmas cactus getting ready for its big day.
On this rainy day, here is something golden. Shadows and light cast on and through a sheet of perspex that has been frosted by dirt and neglect.
December 1, 2025 at 9:54 AM
On this rainy day, here is something golden. Shadows and light cast on and through a sheet of perspex that has been frosted by dirt and neglect.
Had my first chance to view the Open Exhibition at New Walk Museum. My print has a better position than I managed last year. My ambition is to get something displayed at eye level.
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Had my first chance to view the Open Exhibition at New Walk Museum. My print has a better position than I managed last year. My ambition is to get something displayed at eye level.
And here's the Three Swans pub signboard again. This time against the evening sky. I had a lovely time at the Harborough creative writing competition prize giving. Some talented writers. It was a pleasant challenge to judge the short story competition.
November 23, 2025 at 5:38 PM
And here's the Three Swans pub signboard again. This time against the evening sky. I had a lovely time at the Harborough creative writing competition prize giving. Some talented writers. It was a pleasant challenge to judge the short story competition.
Three Swans. Market Harborough.
November 23, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Three Swans. Market Harborough.
Once I've finished this pass through the novel, I'm going to allow myself with a few days of sketching and printmaking. Partly as incentive/reward - to get me to the end. But also to break myself out of the intense critical mode of thought that goes with late stage editing.
November 20, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Once I've finished this pass through the novel, I'm going to allow myself with a few days of sketching and printmaking. Partly as incentive/reward - to get me to the end. But also to break myself out of the intense critical mode of thought that goes with late stage editing.
I took this seven years ago. Since then, I've returned to that spot every autumn (except for the long covid years) but I'm yet to see a repeat of theses colours.
November 19, 2025 at 9:40 AM
I took this seven years ago. Since then, I've returned to that spot every autumn (except for the long covid years) but I'm yet to see a repeat of theses colours.
Contemplating the possibility of adapting a salad spinner to extract the last of the mayonnaise. Working out the wording for my gravestone. (Creator of the Mayonnaise Spinner TM). Everything computes. However I don't have a salad spinner. I attack the container with kitchen scissors.
November 18, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Contemplating the possibility of adapting a salad spinner to extract the last of the mayonnaise. Working out the wording for my gravestone. (Creator of the Mayonnaise Spinner TM). Everything computes. However I don't have a salad spinner. I attack the container with kitchen scissors.
You know those nature documentaries where small woodland creatures are seen carrying dead leaves in their teeth, with which to line hibernation burrows? Well, perhaps from some deep-time species memory, I find the temptation of a good leaf impossible to resist. And I have pockets.
November 16, 2025 at 12:19 PM
You know those nature documentaries where small woodland creatures are seen carrying dead leaves in their teeth, with which to line hibernation burrows? Well, perhaps from some deep-time species memory, I find the temptation of a good leaf impossible to resist. And I have pockets.
Handed in my print at the Museum for the Open Exhibition. While I was there, I browsed the Egyptian section. Here is actual footage of thr Great Lighthouse.
November 15, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Handed in my print at the Museum for the Open Exhibition. While I was there, I browsed the Egyptian section. Here is actual footage of thr Great Lighthouse.
Yesterday in Morrisons car park, Glenfield.
November 15, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Yesterday in Morrisons car park, Glenfield.
This caught my eye on my walk to the Writers' Club this evening.
November 13, 2025 at 9:27 PM
This caught my eye on my walk to the Writers' Club this evening.
I tend to make the mistake of not considering the frame until I've finished the print. Happily, I found a frame to fit this one. Getting ready to take it in for the Leicester Open exhibition at New Walk Museum.
November 13, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I tend to make the mistake of not considering the frame until I've finished the print. Happily, I found a frame to fit this one. Getting ready to take it in for the Leicester Open exhibition at New Walk Museum.
Spotted on my walk this morning. Only had my camera phone to hand.
November 2, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Spotted on my walk this morning. Only had my camera phone to hand.
I'm delighted to have had this relief print, 'Distraction', accepted for Leicester's Open Exhibition. The exhibition will be at New Walk Museum. It runs from the 14th December untill the end of January.
October 31, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I'm delighted to have had this relief print, 'Distraction', accepted for Leicester's Open Exhibition. The exhibition will be at New Walk Museum. It runs from the 14th December untill the end of January.
October 26, 2025 at 9:09 AM
I'm struck (yet again) by the positivity and supportive goodness of Leicester's creative communities. Diverse individuals making things and connecting to each other, and thereby resisting some of the most destructive trends of the age.
#Leicester
#Leicester
October 24, 2025 at 9:40 AM
I'm struck (yet again) by the positivity and supportive goodness of Leicester's creative communities. Diverse individuals making things and connecting to each other, and thereby resisting some of the most destructive trends of the age.
#Leicester
#Leicester
October 24, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Fingerprint of the Wind
I took this one on Borth beach a few years ago.
I took this one on Borth beach a few years ago.
October 24, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Fingerprint of the Wind
I took this one on Borth beach a few years ago.
I took this one on Borth beach a few years ago.