I first picked up a camera when only two years old. I cried when my Dad removed it from my mouth, wiped away the goo before putting it safely away.
Unperturbed I picked up the camera again when Dad wasn’t looking and have been interested in photography ever since.
I emigrated to Sydney in 1990 and along with my partner “The English Nurse” and Banjo our buffy Labrador we live in the Great Australian Outback.

You can read all about our adventures at POMGONEWALKABOUT.COM

What is PomGoneWalkabout?

That’s a very good question and I’m so glad that you asked, because at the moment all I’ve been thinking about all day is battered sausage and chips in a tray with plenty of salt and vinegar. Mushy peas on top not essential but would be nice.

I have days like these, something sets off a yearning. A yearning for home, then as quickly as England exit another world cup it passes, but not these sausage and chips. Home just where is home these days? Home changes constantly as we travel around this great country that we call Australia.
Home, Leicestershire, England, Sydney, New South Wales, Outback, South Australia. Home is currently the Savannah region of Far North Queensland. My Mam always said I was never satisfied, she still does.

Pomgonewalkabout – An Englishman living Down Under with his English Nurse and their very excitable Labrador called Banjo. I am not quite that geriatric yet that I need my own personal nurse. It is a term of endearment I give to my partner of 20 years. She is a nurse by trade. We met in Sydney. Fancy that! A diehard Leicester City supporter meeting up with a girl from Nottingham of all places.

I left my home town of Loughborough in 1990, moved to Sydney where I eventually fulfilled my dream of working in TV as a Technician. Met a few stars helped on a few films, oh I sound like Simon Bates, remember him? Proper little namedropper that he was.

Six years ago whilst living in Sydney we decided at the last minute not to double our mortgage and renovate our house. Thankyou Mr. or Mrs. Bank Manager, but if it is all the same to you we are off to explore the Outback. So that is exactly what we did and here we still are. Plenty of photographs and stories picked up along the way. Did I tell you I was an Outback Postman on the Oodnadatta Track? I will you just wait and see.

Did I mention that we live in Paradise?

We do especially when England wins the Ashes but not when you are sitting in the bathroom in direct line of a Category five cyclone called Yasi, as we found ourselves last week. I am writing this post, post cyclone so we obviously survived.

Pomgonewalkabout – Stories and pictures from an alternative lifestyle around Australia. Alternative as in no battered sausages and chips after a Saturday morning spent down the market in Loughborough or just before a City match, or after a few pints of Old Peculier – Warmer the better.