KAIROS HADITHA bag of chips now costs 12 pickled onions – or a cockle and six-skin. Three cockles are a Horse-shoe Shilling and a Farthing which will get you a return journey to Westward-Ho on the Great Trans-Shire Broadguage Steam Train which has only one carriage and a quiet coach towards the front of the carriage. […]
If you landed in Praia, you wouldn’t quite know where you are. On my first day, I spent the morning strolling around Praia before it became too hot. The old town is situated on the Plateau, overlooking the harbour and beyond that, open horizon where the old canons point to. The buildings here are old […]
There is a moment after a race where I am still a competitor but also a spectator. I have completed the race, just now. I have given everything and in this moment I am free from thoughts. Nothing actually mattered, in the end, even though I was eager to win. When I touched the wall, […]
Much of this land is no-man’s land. This is the Basque country. A no man’s land with many claims. Like Afghanistan, the mountainous area was impossible to control by any force. The mountains were a natural border for invading armies from either side but a permable membrane for determined individuals and their goods. A vast […]
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The Nissan Patrol was Saïd’s car of choice – but only the 90’s version – the turbo charged V12 engine. They don’t make them like that anymore. The muscle car of the wild outdoors, an alpha 4×4 – roaring up a desert dune like a heavy, slobbering Tolkienesque beast crawling out from the underworld. Half-deflated […]
The lights go on and off but things keep moving along and things never do change do they? On and off – on and on …
Safe journey, old friend, and tell us how it goes. Take with you some aims and goals And when you get there, Meet those people, see their habitat, Find their intricacies: The small things that make them tick The things that make them, them Things they wouldn’t notice amongst themselves. Activities, customs and acts they […]
You know how sometimes you can get a little bit consumed by something but obviously (Or distracted by it but) Nothing serious obviously but it is taking my attention. Influencing my inner thoughts, Probably. Those suppliers seem to be slipping in some bad stuff – some bad news. Maybe they always were. Making me feel […]
Capturing Britain in metal etchings I was inspired when I watched the documentary about Norman Ackroyd on ‘What do Artist’s do all day’. I was living abroad and felt very nostalgic for the rough wintery British coastlines. There’s something raw about the medium he uses – etched metal, splashed with ink then pressed onto rough […]