28 Oct 2009 12:00 am1
you know the Spanish rhyme about the sky, looking as if it is bricked up? tonight waiting for a train to take me back home from Gatwick i looked up and thought that was precisely what had happened, wondering when a good unbricker would appear.. it looked like the wall across the platform, gray and completely smooth like a plane of plaster reaching up to the end of the sky. But it was only fog. An illusion of pasty flatness… Read More
07 Oct 2009 12:00 am
Bluestonehenge. ‘I think we have found incontrovertible proof that the river was very important to the people who used Stonehenge. I believe that the river formed a conduit between the living and the dead and this is the point where you leave the realm of the living at the river and enter the one of the dead at Stonehenge.’ Prof. M. Pearson on today’s Guardian. A younger more archaeo-inclined me gets excited when i read such headlines. I’ll keep… Read More
06 Oct 2009 12:00 am2
Hey peeps, happy Autumn. There are leaves everywhere. The birds still have some of their harvest to come, but it’s time to start thinking of buying your bulk peanuts and balls of sueeeeet. Come late October, early November, they’ll be coming around, specially the squirrelbirds. I was down in Madrid last week and loaded up on pipas-related snacks for the birdhouse. Summer was great, don’t get me wrong, but there’s something about this autumn i’m really excited about. Apart from… Read More