Long Beach Wild
The eagle-eyed amongst you - and probably in this case even the short-sighted - will spot at once that the image above is the original from which the masthead to…
Provence – pictorial potpourri
The staggeringly beautiful villages of the Vaucluse have been documented by far, far greater photographers than I could ever hope to become, and I do not intend to add my…
A muse of fire…
O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention William Shakespeare I have long been fascinated by the nature - and the mystery - of…
Cultural differences
I was really quite taken aback - after nearly eight years together - to discover that there are still major cultural differences between Kickass Canada Girl and myself. Picture the…
Photos from Provence
Some images of the residence at which we are staying in Avignon...
Vive la France!
In about an hour from now (time of writing rather than posting!) Kickass Canada Girl will be touching down at Heathrow. Hooray! I will, of course, be there to meet…
Olympic dreams
Why on earth would an Oscar winning movie director - who can pretty much pick and choose his projects these days - wish to take on the impossible challenge of…
The Silent Salesman
"I'd rather trust a man who doesn't shout what he's found, There's no need to sell if you're homeward bound." Peter Gabriel Shortly before the end of last term -…
Home fires
As a counterpart to my previous post on cricket in Victoria... On Sunday I visited my old village cricket club in Buckinghamshire in the UK. It was the occasion of…
Foreign fields
One of the attractions - for the ex-pat Englishman in particular - of living in Victoria is that there is a healthy interest there in that greatest of all games…
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