Mick Canning's Blog, page 6
April 28, 2023
Arty Farty or What?
I dug these out the other day, while we were having a bit of a tidy-up. I must have done these a good fifteen years ago, possibly more. They are all created by chopping up some of my photographs (nowadays we’d just crop them on the computer!) and mounting them on card. I’d originally thought …
April 23, 2023
Belief Systems and Rain
I had a conversation with a blogging friend a few days ago, in the course of which she asked me if I knew why it was that so many Westerners seemed drawn to Eastern beliefs, especially the more ‘esoteric’ ones. I briefly mentioned the fascination the East has held for Westerners throughout history, and the …
April 21, 2023
In All Weathers
We’ve been on the South Downs again. That’s why you haven’t heard from me for a while. Here’re a few pictures. We began walking from Amberley this time, and on the first day the weather was pretty meh. It was either raining or starting to rain or just deciding when to rain. But, as always, …
April 4, 2023
A Quiet Place
Hermits have long gone out of fashion, which is rather a shame. At one time I think I might have viewed it as a good career choice. It had its perks; accommodation was provided, usually in the form of a rude hut (that’s rude as in rudimentary, of course, not because there were obscene drawings …
March 28, 2023
He’s Big, He’s Bad, He’s Very, Very, Bad
I wrote this four or five years ago, but having name-checked nursery rhymes, folk songs, folklore and the like over the past few weeks, now seemed like a good time to post it. The BBW or He’s big, he’s bad, he’s very, very, bad That Big Bad Wolf – it now appears We’ve had it …
March 23, 2023
At The Hop
I was talking about hop pockets and pokes last week – and pigs, of course, which was how it all started, but forget the pigs for now. Let’s stick with the pokes and pockets. At the weekend we went for a walk through a part of Kent we hadn’t walked for a few years and …
March 20, 2023
Surprise!
For me, that is. A real surprise. And maybe for you, for all I know. After faffing around with the manuscripts of a couple of works in progress for a few months, I suddenly decided to go through the manuscript of A Good Place, the novel I had supposedly abandoned a while back. I had …
March 16, 2023
A Pig In A Pocket
Most people know the meaning of the saying to buy a pig in a poke, of course. It means to buy something without first checking you’re getting what you think you’re paying for. And where does the saying originate? Again, most people can tell you it comes from a few hundred years ago – actually …
March 12, 2023
We Went For A Walk
At last, the weather has got milder and it wasn’t raining so we thought ‘let’s go!’ Nothing outrageous, just seven or eight miles around Kent, in no hurry, looking for signs of Spring. So, have a browse through a few visual notes with me… It looks very cloudy, but the clouds were thin and we …
March 8, 2023
Red Herrings
I had a couple of conversations the other day on detective novels, in which red herrings were mentioned, and it reminded me of something I had been reading a few days before, as well as one verse of an old nursery rhyme, the words recorded in the 1800’s, which goes thus: The man in the …
