... of the seven deadly sins, the eighth and most horrid is emotional blackmail ... whilst for this blogger, the only sacred thing is life itself
Friday, February 7, 2014
Thursday, February 6, 2014
Wednesday, February 5, 2014
Tuesday, February 4, 2014
Sunday, February 2, 2014
candlemas ... i still like the story of simeon, even if i amn't religious ... we used to sing a nice version of nunc dimittis in malmesbury abbey back in the 1950s ... by stanford, in C
Saturday, February 1, 2014
Thursday, January 30, 2014
Monday, January 27, 2014
nice observation on the benefit of piano practice during nine-minute interview with rusbridger for a german tv channel
http://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/weltspiegel-guardian100.html
we englischers can listen to the whole of the conversation in the second of the two fillums
Saturday, January 25, 2014
saturday ... vexed by my inability to sleep late, i wake at five and read the introduction to japanese drawings by j.r.hillier, studio vista, 1965, chucked out by the library because it was too old ... and scan in some favourites
hillier, himself a collector, writes that artists such as these made a living from paintings and prints .... and surprisingly few of their actual drawings were kept
Friday, January 24, 2014
phew !
parked the truck in reigate high street for a compulsory driver's rest break ... popped in to a stationers to get these stickers for alvi ... was very tired so fumbled for change ... the tired looking woman took my three pounds and turned away without a word
walked one hundred and fifty yards to oxfam bookshop ... searched through kids section ... put hand in pocket to count spending money ... not there !
a sixty-four-and-a-half-year-old running a hundred and fifty yards through heavy traffic and crowds must be an alarming sight
phew ! my last eighty quid still untouched on the counter
Sunday, January 19, 2014
sing ! sing ! sing ! .... FOXP2 ... lea velez has "facebooked" an interesting article from the spanish newspaper el pais that forced me to check out the gene and the protein it expresses in wikipedia ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FOXP2
http://sociedad.elpais.com/sociedad/2009/11/11/actualidad/1257894012_850215.html
so it's all about the one-ness of nature, ennit ?
Saturday, January 18, 2014
Friday, January 17, 2014
3BT
A tiny hawthorn
bush, but not at all young, and long since “topiarized” into an elegantly gnarled
ellipsoid, stands leafless and grey-brown in the garden of a splendid house on
Mayfield High Street, and comes suddenly alive as a flock of sparrows,
chattering and screeching, enters the tangle of its branches and are instantly
camouflaged.
At the
bottom end of Kings’ Avenue in South London, as the schoolchildren go home,
three pairs of identical twins in a hundred and fifty yards.
A letter
from a dear friend looks up from the mat as I stagger home at the end of a
fifty-six hour week. It is a long newsy reply
to the long one I'd only posted on Monday.
Sunday, January 12, 2014
whaddya mean ... de-contextualized ? images begged, borrowed and or stolen from .... pauline at http://www.theoldposthouse.co.uk, eric ravilious, and last but never least, dame lady duchess the marchioness her rightfully royal highness, the mistress of the rag rugs, sheila evans, nominally titular queen of the gwendraeth valley
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