living inside a rock

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living inside a rock

I live here, inside this rock. It's safer in here, no-one can touch me. The Black Guards cannot hurt me. When the Great Comet passes by, it cannot burn me. How did I get here? The living rock simply grew…

freed: Nelson Mandela

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freed: Nelson Mandela

One of the memories which come to my mind related to Nelson Mandela, who died on Thursday, is from the 1990s: a work colleague regularly wore a FREE NELSON MANDELA teeshirt, but since the man had indeed now been freed…

flickr changes

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flickr changes

I took this photo of a sculpture on the Singapore River in June, but found it a bit uninteresting, so I didn't post it to my flickr until October when I made this treatment of it with TangledFX. Yesterday it…

why blog?

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why blog?

I made my first personal “homepage” in 1994 when I set up my then employer's first web server. I developed that into a website in the 1990s, as a way of learning web design, then in the 2000s I used…

temps perdu

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temps perdu

When I was young, I used to enjoy the hushed reverence with which Radio 3 presenters treated music. The music would end, and there were a few moments of complete silence, before the announcer would murmur the details of the…

window

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Glass. You see through it. Glittering, clasp it. Crush it, scatter red stained shards. Reflect. Windows reflect a little: spirit mirrors. Listen, hear your breath going yellow at the edges. Death's thin spirit, quite crushed lingers as a filter in…

42 things I love about France

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42 things I love about France

* le Tour de France * vast open tracts of countryside * empty motorways * fast trains * Renault cars * Paris * croissants * lots of public art * imaginative and bold public architecture * warmer than England * good food, made from the best ingredients, with plenty of time…

what is a mistdog?

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what is a mistdog?

I like plenty of sleep, affection and food, and certain kinds of play. A long walk in the countryside is usually enough to make me happy. Any weather is good, but mist is the most exciting. I can generally tell…