Monthly Archives: June 2022

Forgetting Jackson Pollock

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

‘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

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

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

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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