Autumn crows
Black crows descend onto a harvested field, looking for the seeds men, in their hurry, left behind. Such intelligent birds …
Category Archives: Travel and Places
African mask from Cameroon
This large mask appeals to me. I like the odd shapes, the wonderfully rough stylised features and the double eyes. …
Solomon Islands Throwing Club
This is a club from the Solomon Islands. It is 38cm long, is a little over 50 years old and …
Kingsbury Fair
As the 2020 Covid lockdown continues, one casualty has been the annual Kingsbury Fair in Somerset, UK which takes place …
Beltane or May Day
As Beltane/May Day/Walpurgis approaches and isolation means no gathering this year 2020, I thought I would share again some of …
Solomon Islands
SOLOMON ISLANDS The British Solomon Islands Protectorate (B.S.I.P.) became independent in 1978 and has had mixed fortunes since including a …
Kiribati
KIRIBATI When the British handed back The Gilbert and Ellice Islands the Ellice Islands decided not to join the new …
Tuvalu
TUVALU The fourth least visited country in the world and one of the first to experience the full force of …
African figures
These figures disturb me. Scary. Maybe it’s the teeth. Maybe it’s the eyes. Maybe it’s the rope around the neck. …
Why English language?
For the last 4 weeks I have been occasionally posting on this blog and I have been reading many other …
Manga Dukna
The Dukna that lives in my house (no one “owns” a Dukna) has a watchful and reflective personality and seems …
Leaves fall
I am still waiting for Autumn (Fall) to really start this year. So mild, even for this part of the …
Summer’s end
The last day of summer is washed away with dark, sweeping clouds and gusts of rain. A few days ago …
Urnes style
The breath-taking stylised carving on Norway’s Urnes stavkyrkje has been wandering in and out of my thoughts for many years. …
Time flies on regardless
Fossils of ammonites make me stop walking and persuade me to withdraw from the world around me and think. In …
Finding Something from Nothing 