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Between you, me and the gatepost, dear
You might not believe this but I have little better to do after lunch than to come up here to my atélier that I’ve made for myself in the book-museum, which is situated (open-plan) directly above and… more →
notesfromthewaitingroom
Between you, me and the gatepost, dear
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wrote 7 months ago: You might not believe this but I have little better to do after lunch than to come up here to my até … more →
The Municipal Goddess
wrote 8 months ago: Starting the day with a swim is highly recommended. So I enrolled at my local Municipal Baths at Fei … more →
COMA
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wrote 8 months ago: (The following two posts are extracted from my memoirs THE WAITING ROOM pub. January 2011). HALLUCIN … more →
The Silent Ones
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wrote 10 months ago: WINTER FLOWERS AT SUNSET The time has come to consider the sometimes anonymous inmates of the Home. … more →
A day trip to Oran
wrote 11 months ago: DESERT ROSE We had been having problems with securing exit visas for our people in the Field from th … more →
The strong silent type
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wrote 11 months ago: When John Cage, the American Experimental Composer (1912-1992) first performed his work entitled 4´ … more →
Invisible Paintings
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wrote 1 year ago: AN INVISIBLE EXHIBITION - by THOMAS MILNER Since last Thursday there has been a little show of my pa … more →
My life is a canvas
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wrote 1 year ago: My life is a canvas, once painted with broad free strokes of the brush with a bold design of colour … more →
Molyneux Bunny
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wrote 1 year ago: PENISTONE CHURCH from HARTCLIFFE About a couple of miles from my home-village of Thurlstone lies the … more →
Please allow me to introduce myself
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wrote 1 year ago: Please allow me to introduce myself, I’m a man of wealth and taste … thus the opening words of a fam … more →
The Fragment of Porcelain
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wrote 1 year ago: The painter Tanaka stood back and studied his work. He was quite satisfied. The painting encapsulate … more →
Fatima (2)
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wrote 1 year ago: Pilgrims to holy shrines have always been ripped off – that’s a given. I mean, who will not pa … more →
Tread Softly ...
wrote 1 year ago: He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven by William Butler Yeats Had I the heavens’ embroider … more →
My Father Learns Chinese
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wrote 1 year ago: My father was a man of many interests and enthusiasms (and indeed obsessions) one of which was a stu … more →
Lament for the Makars (Quote of the day)
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wrote 1 year ago: TIMOR MORTIS CONTURBAT ME (Fear of death torments me) William Dunbar – Scottish poet (1465-153 … more →
The History of the World (1)
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wrote 1 year ago: One day I picked up from the table in the staff-room a thick paper-back book with the grand title of … more →
No Country for Old People
wrote 1 year ago: With more than 1,000,000 old people, Portugal has one of the largest (proportionate) ageing populati … more →
And the band played on
wrote 1 year ago: Let us anticipate by a couple of months all the brouhaha when the various mediums of communication r … more →
A Murder of Crows
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wrote 1 year ago: A murder of crows, A barren of mules, A bundle of rags and A desert of lapwing. A bench of bishops, … more →
