Monthly Archives: June 2022

Forgetting Jackson Pollock

Posted on 27th June 2022 by Ian

Walking along the waterfront in Liverpool on a fine summer’s evening, I came to the Tate Gallery. At half past seven on a Monday evening, it was closed, but sight of it recalled a previous visit. Back in 2015, I … Continue reading →

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Finding Excalibur

Posted on 25th June 2022 by Ian

‘Go to Shapwick Nature Reserve. You can walk the bronze age track’. The Reserve last month became only the second National Nature Reserve in the country, a place of tranquility away from traffic and development. We easily found not only … Continue reading →

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Ghosts revived

Posted on 20th June 2022 by Ian

The Point. In that privatisation of public space it was renamed the O2 and then when they withdrew from the market it became the 3 Arena. Presenters on one of the Dublin music stations call it the 2.3. The sign … Continue reading →

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A Bloomsday accidentally observed in Somerset

Posted on 16th June 2022 by Ian

The A levels finished forty-three years ago yesteday, on Friday, 15th June 1979. The passing of the days at Sixth Form College was marked by an evening playing skittles and drinking ale at a pub in the Somerset village of … Continue reading →

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Something beautiful makes a difference

Posted on 9th June 2022 by Ian

Tracing the story of a Great War soldier from his birth in Ruthin in North Wales in 1895,  through the ugly hell of the Western Front, I came upon a moment of beauty, In December 1918, he had been married … Continue reading →

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