Sorry, have to talk about sins a little bit more. (sinful behaviour, the pretension to think one can write about sins all the time.) What I really liked about those …
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17 jan
‘What’s in it for me.’ It is a sentence that was uttered by someone at a Paddockhurst party last year. It was a casual remark almost, like it was self-evident …
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16 jan
One really has to love wedding cakes in order to appreciate the Saint Font Cathedral of Perigueux. Julie and I drove past it last week, on our way to find …
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15 jan
Wild Swans. Another one of these past bestsellers that I never got to read. From 1991 this one. A good year. I just got out of the army and met …
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14 jan
How did I ever allow myself to get distracted to a book about Evelyn Waugh? I read and saw Brideshead Revisited, liked it, but could not get through any of …
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13 jan
Working, praying and sleeping, that’s what monks did, or were supposed to do according to the Rule of St Benedict. They spent eight hours on each of these things. No …
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12 jan
Hairy things, boars are. I know now. I saw eight of them today. All dead. Shot by the members of the regional hunters guild, the same guild of which one …
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11 jan
Why are there no bakeries anymore in Holland? Or in England? I am not talking about the US, if they used to have bakeries, why don’t they have bread nowadays? …
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Poetic Colors of France – A
Rimbaud thought the vowels have colours. I’m not sure but his native country certainly does. Here is a gallery of french colours set to his poem. (I’ll do this in …
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10 jan
All those hours at the Barley Pop Stop paid off. This is Julie talking when she’s playing pool. After having pocketed a ball. Maybe I should say that she says …
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