Earlier today this weblog received its 10,000th visitor. That is cause for a small celebration – OK, only for a minute. This happens at a time when things have been incredibly quiet here. Well, that will change soon. I am in the middle of plans to overhaul this site. At the moment it is a … Read more
This is brilliant! I attended a Workshop a couple of years ago, run by David Gurteen. I also subscribe to his monthly e-newsletter. Follow the link and you will find a page with a button on it. Click the button, and a small window opens where ideas will be posted at an interval which you … Read more
When at school, nowhere else but the space that was givenAnd those tighter moments, when the neurosis of the timeMade no more sense than the 70s were supposed to… Three lines, two times, and once we had becomeThe glide of a hawk, the times when we capturedAll the dreams that had been spinning around outside … Read more
I have an idea for an article which I am going to write. The title is “Being overwhelmed with musical choice – the importance of scarcity” and it will be about the dilemma created by the digital age. Thanks to the internet and digital files, there is more choice than we have ever experienced. This … Read more
Here are a couple of pictures taken in Corsica back in July. We visited a site full of standing stones, which was beautiful and filled with a deep presence. It was unusual to see these stones somewhere so hot, rather than in deepest Wales with wind and rain.
I’m away at a two-day conference at the University of Hertfordshire. This is the first time I have spent the night in a university hall of residence room since I was a student 25 years ago! Things have changed. The campus itself is comprised of a cluster of spectacular statements and feats of architecture. The … Read more
you see, when I was young and writing for all I could findI read somewhere that it was wrong to use too many wordsthat end in –ing, so avoided it, wanting to get it right how stupid though, how the rules that we get are really allthere to be ignored, to be recreated. When word … Read more
OK, so I’m probably one of a million people (slight exaggeration) to write about the new blogger beta. A lot of changes are promised in this beta phase. I was offered sign up earlier today, so accepted. I haven’t made any changes yet. But you can expect a combination of changes and mistakes over the … Read more
Here are a few albums which I just can’t stop playing at the moment: 1. Mark Hollis – Mark Hollis I have been looking for this album for years. It is the only solo album to date, by the singer from Talk Talk. The later albums by Talk Talk before they split up took them … Read more