Faces in the Rocks
Gallery of photographs of faces painted with eco-friendly paint on raw rock. The artist is Joakim Stampe and the work may be called Donation X. More…
Month: January 2012
Resolutions
New Year Resolutions and the history of New Year Resolutions – or at least a parody of the sort of twisted information about the history available from various Internet sites. More…
Dark and Sleet
Picture postcard illustrating a couple of seasonally descriptive haiku written recently and previously published on twitter More…
Persperistance II
ovember is the cruelest month. Yes I know that TS Eliot thought it was April, but for me it’s November. As the days get shorter and darker and duller, so I begin to feel all my pleasure, all my delight, all my creativity, all of it, spiralling away like water down a plughole. It’s like this every year and yet, for some strange reason, every year it surprises me. I’m probably suffering from some obscure form of masochism. Why else, despite my seasonal affective disorder (not to mention my history of melancholia), would I choose to live in a country where every winter is a plunge towards Ragnarok? Yet I’ve lived in Scandinavia for 29 winters now and every year … More…