Category Archives: Art

Crocodile Man… from Stuart France

* Crocodile Man was married to Whistle Duck and they had two daughters… “We’ll have fish tomorrow night,” said Crocodile Man, “I’ll go out early in my bark canoe.” So next morning Crocodile Man set off, and his two daughters … Continue reading

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Open borders…

The virus that has been bugging me for the past week or two, manifesting itself under various  guises in order the hide from effective treatment, finally decided a couple of days ago that it would try pretending to be a … Continue reading

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Cave from methodtwomadness #writephoto

Reblogged from Kerfe at methodtwomadness: Mistaking the shadows for dragons, I hesitate.  Deep primal fear meets concentrated dark.  What waits at the center? Continue reading here.

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Bearded from methodtwomadness #writephoto

Reblogged from methodtwomadness: Here I be; they won’t find me. They know not this place– all rocks look the same to them. This land belongs to no one– no one owns the trees. I abide with all creatures. Continue reading … Continue reading

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Jumping at shadows

I came across a video of the work of artist Stefan Pabst. His work includes photorealistic portraiture, but it was his 3D drawings that amazed me. While the glasses he draws look like something you could pick up and the … Continue reading

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Baffled by words – the snobbery of hype #SundayBlogShare

We’ve all read them and felt utterly inadequate. We cannot even aspire to be writers because we cannot read them with any real understanding… yet they obviously make sense. It must be that our intellect is lacking…or our education… or … Continue reading

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Aquae Sulis

Aquae Sulis… the waters of the Sulis… that was the Roman name for the city of Bath. It is easy to understand why when, since time immemorial, a hot and mineral-rich spring has welled from the ground; the only hot … Continue reading

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Not a blog tour – lunch with Helen Jones

It was all Helen’s fault… we wouldn’t have been at St Albans at all except we were meeting her not too far away. Having said that… just look what we would have missed! So we had plenty to talk about … Continue reading

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Elements

Starchild in Glastonbury is one of the few shops where I can spent unlimited time and wish for an unlimited budget. You walk through the door … a work of art in itself…into a low-ceilinged space lined with polished wood … Continue reading

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Mister Fox: The Legend

Where do they come from? They come out of the night… Where do they go to? Back to the night they return… They dance in the dark to pipe and drum and fiddle They dance in the dark with fire … Continue reading

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