Mick Canning's Blog, page 7
March 5, 2023
Two Books On Ladakh
Just a short post, today. I’ve posted about Ladakh in the Northern India Himalaya several times before, and was reading a couple of these posts back this morning when it struck me I’d written, but never posted, reviews of a couple of books that did much to inspire me to travel there. These are really …
February 28, 2023
The Hooden Horse
In the town I used to live in, there was once a pub called the Hooden Horse, sadly now renamed to something much less interesting. I was reminded of this at an exhibition at Maidstone museum on Hooden Horses. Hooden Horses? Well, briefly… Hoodening is a rural folk tradition unique to East Kent, England. Going …
February 25, 2023
Shorelarking at Rye
We went down to Rye harbour in Sussex, a few weeks ago, on a beautifully sunny but bitingly cold day. The actual harbour entrance is in the middle distance of the above photo with Dungeness Power Station just visible on the horizon in the distance. This red-roofed hut sits on the shingle on the approach …
February 21, 2023
Unhalfbricking
I’ve never written an album review on here before, although I have reviewed a couple of concerts I’ve been to, so this is a first. And if you have absolutely no interest in folk or folk-rock feel free to give this post a miss. So, probably just one of you left. Let’s go. Actually, now …
February 17, 2023
Toxic Twitter
Twitter can be an absolutely toxic place. Obviously there are plenty of other social media platforms and I’m sure they can be equally toxic. It’s Twitter I’m currently on, though. Image by Arek Socha from Pixabay It seems to be a continuation of ‘If you don’t agree with me then I will hate you.’ No, …
February 13, 2023
Oh, it’s you!
That’s something that’s never happened to me before. I was introduced to someone today who told me ‘Oh, I’m just reading your book! I really like the way it deals with the role of women, how they’re treated.’ They then told me they enjoyed the Indian setting too, and I was chuffed, I tell you, …
February 7, 2023
Connections
Through researching my family tree, I’ve discovered some new connections to the land. It’s not just that I’ve found ancestors in new parts of the country, although that certainly has a bearing on things, it’s more that I have a reinforced sense of a long personal connection to the land, this land, where my ancestors …
February 3, 2023
Qutb Minar
Two or three weeks ago I read Rama Arya’s blog on Qutb Minar and I remarked then that Qutb Minar is probably my favourite place in Delhi and decided I ought to put up a couple of my own pictures, too. It seems to have taken me rather longer to get around to it than …
January 30, 2023
Excerpts From The Book of Meh
From Chapter one: In the beginning there was lots of very dark darkness and very cold cold stuff, which wasn’t at all nice and although no one existed yet, they were all really miserable. And Meh, the god of this world, thought ‘Well, this isn’t much fun’ and so He created the universe, with the …
January 15, 2023
A Sale
Wood carving of Crucifixion scene I always have mixed feelings when I sell a piece of my artwork that I’m fond of. On the one hand, I’m delighted someone likes it enough to want to buy it, but part of me doesn’t want to let it go. After all, we make artworks primarily to please …
