My feet first led me to St John the Baptist's some two decades ago.  I had seen enough of Chester's shops for one afternoon and, as if drawn by some subtle instinct, I found myself wandering around the sandstone ruins of what must have once been an impressive Norman church built close to the shores of the River Dee. Early churches were often built on top of pre-existing sacred sites, earlier even than the Roman shrine which once stood where the Norman ruins now lie.   With the Roman ampitheatre just yards away, this may have been a shrine to Mithras. A person can only speculate about what may have been here prior to the Roman structure.  During the Reformation, St John's received far worse treatment than the nearby, and much bigger, St Werburgh's Cathedral which legend places directly over an ancient Druidic Grove.   It seems unlikely that those same Druids would have overlooked this energy-rich focal point.  Norman ruins of an earlier St John the Baptist'

My efforts to store online photos on disc continues.  Here are a few more of my favourite shots.  Royden Woods  West Kirby Marina  West Kirby Marina under repair, March 2009.  Grange Hill War Memorial  Solitary figure on Red Rocks, Hoylake 

Emily, Killer of Garden Gnomes  Mutley and Poppy  Jazzy and toy mouse  Rolly-polly Saffron  Ygraine in the Grove I've been tidying up photos on my hard-drive and transfering them onto disc.  Here are a few of my favourites. 

Stanislav Belyaevsky's exquisite photography, which captures the passion, strength and beauty of ballet. http://www.belyaevsky.com/

Final line-up for Parallel Dimensions (16th Oct, 2pm, West Kirby Library): Carol Falaki; Adrienne Odasso; Colin P Davies; Tim Hulme; Peter Hurd; Peter Caton; Adele Cosgrove-Bray.

  Parallel Dimensions returns for its second year to bring together some of the UK's strongest emerging writers of the Fantasy, Horror and Science-Fiction genres. Colin P Davies , Adele Cosgrove-Bray , Carol Falaki and Adrienne Odasso will share new fiction with their audience. Last year's lively Q&A session, which followed the readings, proved very popular. Colin has seen over forty of his short stories published in anthologies and magazines. He is the author of The Bookmole , a novel whose sequel is due out soon. His illustrations have also appeared in international genre magazines. Adele Cosgrove-Bray's short stories appear in various anthologies published by Hadley Rille Books and Dark Moon Press. Her non-fiction writings have been featured in Prediction Magazine and Your Future . She is currently writing her forth in a series of Dark Fantasy novels set in Wirral and Liverpool. Carol Falaki's first novel, Birth in Suburbia draws on her profession

The colours on Caldy Hill are changing to an autumnal palette now.   Mushrooms and toadstools blossom from beneath a growing carpet of fallen leaves, and the feisty rustlings of foraging squirrels send showers of pine cones to the damp, peaty ground.  The quality of light changes everything, from the soft green-golds filtering through arching branches of oak and rowan, to the hard glitter of silver-greys bouncing off the River Dee.  Bees hummed over the last of the purple heather on the summit, and the faerie pond lower down - dry during the summer months - begins to look more marshy as it slowly refills.  And on the narrow path, threaded with roots and sandstone rocks, overhung with ripe blackberries and peeling silver birch, lay one tiny lizard, another victim of bicycle wheels, still struggling to crawl away to die beneath the trees.