A Homemade Museum
We read the listing and we saw that the exhibition was about to end. There was no time to waste. We set off after lunch and walked uphill. We walked … Continue reading
December 29, 2013 · Leave a comment
O the lovely garden / of fighting writers
…I had written in a notebook on an early visit in 1973, obsessed by Monet and Impressionism, the idea that it could have a theory, a methodology to the haphazard, … Continue reading
December 28, 2013 · Leave a comment
Boulette d’Avesne
I don’t really hold with flavouring cheese with herbs, fruit, or anything else. But the Boulette d’Avesne from the north, near the Belgian border, remains my favourite cheese – not … Continue reading
December 26, 2013 · Leave a comment
Free Music
We arrived at the church just as a mass was ending. There were five or six priests in purple and white robes shaking hands and talking with the people who … Continue reading
December 26, 2013 · Leave a comment
notes from an urban hibernation 