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Continue reading →: Magic Light in the Spessart / Germany by Rolf Nachbar
water and woods with magical light
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Continue reading →: Popular culture – an oxymoron?
One often despairs at the ignorance of youth. I was minding my own business in Filthy McNasty’s the other night listening to a fellow called Mark Graham strum his guitar and sing popular songs. All very gemütlich until some wassock plonked himself in front of the musician beseeching him to play…
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Continue reading →: Meditations
Someone in their 50s often sits and ponders. What’s it all about? How do we know what we know? Is there a God? That kind of stuff. The act of putting those thoughts to paper clarifies the ideas and the arguments that have perplexed people through the ages. Montaigne shared…
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Continue reading →: Art
I had a mosey over to the Ulster Museum yesterday, which is a fun thing to do before the pubs open (1 pm on Sundays). Their current art exhibition is well worth a look. I liked the large portraits of Kenneth Branagh and Tyson Furey as well as a couple…
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Continue reading →: Summertime falling away
It’s officially the end of British summertime on 27th October, so until then we can continue to enjoy the balmy days in the park playing with frisbees and lapping up the odd poke (local vernacular for an ice cream cone). Nature’s parade of autumnal colours marching towards us without a…
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Continue reading →: 3 minute blog
So little time this morning – well here goes. Yes it was a great weekend for odespinner. it started gently enough with a family meal at home, then cabin fever gripped me and shook me out the door, ostensibly for a walk, but in my heart I knew there was…
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Continue reading →: saturday – saturn – sat…
Oh the relief, the joy of home and V+ and a remote controller that works. My niece is 18 – so a poem was the sine qua non. A story goes with it (as Damon Runyon said in his tales of racetrack hustlers trying to scratch the price of their…
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Continue reading →: A Walk in the Park
Natural beauty is pretty awesome and at this time of year it’s a right show off. The Botanic Gardens in Belfast have such a variety of trees with leaves that are golden, green and rust coloured, that the eye is dazzled by their setting next to lush lawns and Victorian…
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