You never leave the land and people who made you; deep roots tug from distance, across oceans and draw you back again and again.

My maternal great-grandfather built churches in Bridlington. In the Priory, there is a plaque commending him for a life ‘well lived.’ My grandfather was the engineer on the Bridlington life boat but kept me ‘safe in feathers’ so I knew nothing of the terrors of high seas, darkness and drowning. Bridlington is in my bones.

But life drew me to the USA where I married, earned an MFA from Brandeis University and worked for many years as Professor of Theatre at The Boston Conservatory.

That life also includes, two daughters, four grandchildren and a husband of fifty years with whom I live on the south coast of Massachusetts and where I walk, write, weave and garden.

It is a blessing and a loss, this life in another country. Writing helps to keep me in two places at once.

Distances are indeed ‘all and nothing.’

Mal Seddon (alias Markam Walker Tweed-Waveney) has used photography ever since his final year at school in the port-city of Kingston upon Hull.

He was accepted into Bradford Regional College of Art as a student in 1972 to pursue his interest in the medium graduating four years later older and wiser.

In more recent years circumstances have found him living in a suburb of a large, land-locked city in the Midlands, distanced far from any coastal estuary or beach.

He has always missed not living within close reach of the sea and at times, it shows.

Rodney Challis began doing journalism over fifty years ago during his student days.

Since then, Rodney has covered most things for national media, from human interest stories to dog racing and celebrity chitchat.

Commissions also took him inside the worlds of professional wrestling and horse racing.

He is a member of the British Guild of Beer Writers.

While considering himself a hardboiled writer, Rodney welcomes the opportunity to collaborate with his old pal and colleague, Mal Seddon, in this project that is all about memory and landscape.