... of the seven deadly sins, the eighth and most horrid is emotional blackmail ... whilst for this blogger, the only sacred thing is life itself
Saturday, March 15, 2014
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Sunday, March 9, 2014
Saturday, March 8, 2014
Friday, March 7, 2014
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
ta-ran ta-ra !!! lord nelson by spode, dating from 2005 via a charity shop in reigate
co-incidentally, we took a trip down the river this morning to the national maritime museum at greenwich and were able to study nelson's trafalgar over-coat, complete with fatal bullet hole on left shoulder
Sunday, March 2, 2014
some say that memory rot sets in earlier than you thought .... but i wonder if early memories are just buried under the avalanche of subsequent experience
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09658211.2013.854806
http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=88905
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Sforza_(il_Duchetto)
... kidnapped at the age of nine and never returned
Saturday, March 1, 2014
looks like it'll be another wasted weekend of reeling and writhing
i've just discovered BBC radio 3's essay archive
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006x3hl/episodes/player
Sunday, February 23, 2014
any old irons ? i'd quite like one of these 2500 year old bronze wine jars for my own dionysiac revels ...
http://inha.revues.org/3976
if you are interested in this spectacular relic, it is well worth downloading the pdf of beryl barr sharrar's essay with its fabulous pictures, via the above link
Saturday, February 22, 2014
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