Category Archives: Art photography

Rain is a four letter word…

Posted on June 19, 2013 by

“I like it like rain water, my dear” was the standard reply given by a favourite aunt when asked how she took her tea. Unlike Arthur’s cake, this cup, which someone left out in the rain, retained its recipe and … Continue reading →

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One fine morning…..not

Posted on June 17, 2013 by

I, like Caesar before me, walked out into the ruins of what was, but yesterday evening, a garden in the full pomp of June flowering.  On surveying the flattened, flowerless, green mayhem Caesar would have addressed his trembling gardeners in … Continue reading →

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Tongue tied…..

Posted on June 16, 2013 by

Being able to make our thoughts public, through “blogs” or “tweets”,  seems to have become a very efficient muzzle. The greater the number of people who read our, ineradicable, words the more cautious we have to become. We are very … Continue reading →

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Who called the cook a c…t?.. Who called the c…t a cook?…..

Posted on June 14, 2013 by

Apparently mackerel skies can herald an approaching depression in the same way that the look in my wife’s eyes heralds her approaching depression at the sight of a bag of charcoal in my hand. With our fridge  packed with mackerel, … Continue reading →

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bake it, and they will come…..

Posted on June 12, 2013 by

Leaden skies today drained the colour from me and the  morning. I remember once seeing an illustrated alphabet in which the letter E, for Ennui, was depicted by a monochrome drawing of the exterior of a brooding mansion in which … Continue reading →

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Waking with a bee in your ear……

Posted on May 27, 2013 by

Solitary bees are a new discovery for me. Up to a recent point I thought that all bees lived in tower block hives, milling around chaotically but purposefully, so like us humans, buzzing off to work in a rush hour … Continue reading →

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These latish things remind me of you…

Posted on May 20, 2013 by

” A bowl of peaches that are slowly ripening, A simple salad on a summer evening….” These and other equally delicious things remind me of you, Summer. I’m impatiently awaiting your arrival; my mind is filled with memories of our … Continue reading →

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Panning for gold….

Posted on May 18, 2013 by

“I break some good eggs into a bowl, I beat them well, I put in a good piece of butter in the pan. I throw the eggs into it and I shake it constantly. I am happy, monsieur, if this … Continue reading →

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Soft centred Sundae…..

Posted on May 12, 2013 by

There is such a silence this Sunday morning. Even the birds are in quiet contemplation. The soft hum of the computer and the click clack of the keyboard  is all that breaks the hush. Once it would have been the … Continue reading →

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Having a breakdown….

Posted on May 7, 2013 by

My specialist subject is not “The Workings of the Internal Combustion Engine”. This became apparent when, after pushing all the knobs and turning all the keys marked “Start”, nothing happened save the creation of a telling noise that had heads … Continue reading →

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