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 