All this time the Guard was looking at her, first through a telescope, then through a microscope, and then through an opera-glass. At last he said, “You’re travelling the wrong way,” and shut up the window and went away. “So young a child,” said the gentleman sitting opposite to her (he was dressed in white… Continue reading Triumphs of Nonsense
Month: January 2011
some hip hop
woo hah may not have been the first hype williams video I’d seen but it was the first where I noted the name and recognised his genius. the remix is even wilder with the contribution from ol’ dirty bastard. I note that this has had more views than the original track. there are a number… Continue reading some hip hop
The Sirius v The Glen Sannox
In the summer of 1959 when I was 5 years old, my family went on holiday to the isle of Arran. There were a few firsts involved. It was the first time I’d been on a boat of the size of the ferry and it was the first time I’d been to Arran. My mother… Continue reading The Sirius v The Glen Sannox
grain barge gig
Jars & their Anecdotes
There was an old man of Tobago, Who lived on rice, gruel, and sago; Till, much to his bliss, His physician said this – To a leg, sir, of mutton you may go from Anecdotes and Adventures of Fifteen Gentleman (1822) Long years ago, in the days when much of my time was passed in… Continue reading Jars & their Anecdotes
micromuseum 1
in 2009 & 2010 I was working part-time on the new museum of bristol which is due to open this summer. the actual building I did my work in was the city museum and art gallery, an edwardian baroque building, which is a picturesque place to spend the day though in summer like being in… Continue reading micromuseum 1
quotations
Moreover, the state of little children excels the state of the rest in that they are in innocence, and evil has not yet been rooted in them by actual life; and innocence is such that all things of heaven can be implanted therein, for it is a receptacle of the truth of faith and of… Continue reading quotations