Saturday, November 11, 2006

Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party!

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A day has slipped by without my authoritative and opinionated voice shaping the time passing! I expect we can all live with that! The day wa...
Thursday, November 09, 2006

Way of Seeing

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The end of the Photographic Week and I feel that I should be enumerating the lessons learned, the techniques honed and the boundaries broken...
Wednesday, November 08, 2006

Waiting and waiting

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How do you stand when you are waiting for a person at an airport? Bristol airport, very carefully, doesn’t provide seats at the ‘arrivals’ g...
Tuesday, November 07, 2006

Captured Colour

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In spite of my antipathy towards the trappings of the monarchical system which holds this sad old country in its upper class grasp, I feel t...
Monday, November 06, 2006

Mellow musings

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For a frustrated pyromaniac like me, the fact that the actual day of November the 5th was a Sunday and therefore people set off their firewo...
Sunday, November 05, 2006

A Brown Study

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Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness and Sigri estate coffee from Papua New Guinea and central heating: an autumn to savour. Looking at f...
Saturday, November 04, 2006

Goodwill to All!

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My cultural plan for the edification of my sophisticated reader has been stymied on Day Two of the Photographic Week by the refusal of the ...
Friday, November 03, 2006

Click!

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What is the point of having slogged my way through a copy of Hogarth’s ‘Line of Beauty’ if the end result of the reading of this treatise on...
Thursday, November 02, 2006

Peel me a grape!

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One of the many pleasures in foreign travel is being able to glut yourself on what would be hothouse fruits in this country but which are av...
Wednesday, November 01, 2006

Wild Drink is Raging!

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‘Schadenfreude’ is one of those wonderful German words (or phrases) which sound to my ears like some sort of vaguely threatening expletives ...
Tuesday, October 31, 2006

Memory

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The landscape of my childhood is being redrawn: what were firm strokes of the pen outlining clear shapes filled with strong colour are gradu...
Monday, October 30, 2006

Some things you can't avoid.

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Pretend as much as I like, I cannot deny that I enjoyed reading The DaVinci Code. Everyone said that it was a real ‘page turner’ and I duly ...
Sunday, October 29, 2006

You expect me to believe that?

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Coincidence, for me, is best expressed by an ex-colleague going back to the churned up mess of a rugby field in the dark to search for a con...