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January 7, 2024
A Jolly Wassail and the Howlers (and not forgetting the Hoodeners!)
Yesterday, we went Wassailing. If you care to Google (other search engines are available) Wassailing, you will learn it traditionally takes place on the Twelfth Night (after Christmas), i.e. 5th January, and is a British custom. You will also discover that wassailing involves groups (traditionally men) visiting apple orchards, usually after dark, and to encourage …
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December 27, 2023
Wednesday December 27th
It is windy this morning and the forecast is for rain and high winds later in the day. Consequently, I go out for a walk straight after breakfast, heading for the woods beside the common where I know I will be sheltered from the worst of it, should the winds get up soon. Above, the …
October 20, 2023
Time Out
I’m going to take a break for a while, so here’s Nuptse and Everest at sunset from Tengboche, Nepal, for you. Because.
October 11, 2023
Pilgrimage
We recently returned from a week in Cornwall, and where we stayed was close to the end of a pilgrim route, St Michael’s Way. This is a short twelve and a half mile walk from the North Cornish coast to St Michael’s Mount, in Mount’s bay on the South coast. Although the route is such …
September 23, 2023
By Coincidence…
On the same day I put up the post of my oil pastel painting of a Nepalese doorway (ten days ago), I sold a picture in my Etsy shop. Quite a different style and subject, though. I painted this as a practice piece, and it seemed to turn out quite decently (if you like that …
September 20, 2023
100 Word Stories
I know one hundred word stories are a thing on here, or ninety nine word stories, someone supplying a prompt – either a word or a phrase or perhaps a photo – but I was just playing around and came up with this. So no prompts, just a bit of fun. Those of you of …
September 18, 2023
Afternoon Light
Late summer afternoon light on the South Downs near Lewes, Sussex. A walk after the rain. (Click on photograph to see enlargement.)
September 13, 2023
A Bit Of Art From The Archives
Nepalese Village Door 22ins x 15ins Oil Pastels on paper 2014 My interpretation of the door to a house in the village of Khumjung, Nepal, high in the Himalaya on the Everest Trail. I was pleased with how this turned out and I’m thinking I should try one or two more similar paintings.
September 9, 2023
Found – One Muse
‘Oh, you’re back.’ ‘Well, not really. I’ve been here all the time. I just didn’t have anything to say to you, that’s all.’ ‘Why on earth not?’ ‘For a start, you don’t listen to me. You keep fannying around with that novel that your heart’s not in, anyway. What is it that you actually want …
September 7, 2023
Lost – One Muse
Last seen…well, never seen clearly, actually, Over all these years merely glimpsed occasionally on the borders of sleep, or somewhere in the shadows while I’ve been out walking. But even so, it must be a good few months since they were about. I did think I heard her (for my muse is a her; most …
