by Patrick | Sep 26, 2018 | Environment, Lifestyle, Travel, Uncategorized
” Everyone knew the fat had become the new cancer, yet they bellyached about the slimming hysteria and applauded ‘real’ woman’s body. As though no exercise and being overfed was some kind of sensible model. Be happy with the body you’ve...
by Patrick | Jun 28, 2018 | Environment, Lifestyle, photography, Remembrance, Travel, Uncategorized
It’s monumental. In WW1 1400 of Britain’s bell ringers died. What more fitting way to remember them than to recruit 1400 new bell ringers and have a ’ring-in’ on November 11th on the anniversary of the War? Monumental ambition wants a national muffled set of rings in...
by Patrick | May 9, 2018 | art, art as language, Design, drawing, Environment, Lifestyle, painting, pastels, photography
As an art student in the 1960’s I worked every vacation. It started when I was a Foundation student (pre-dip in those days) in Stafford Art College. My parents were living in married quarters at the RAF apprentice school in Cosford (now a rather spectacular part of...
by Patrick | Apr 26, 2018 | art, Environment, Lifestyle, Remembrance, Travel
I suppose at my advancing age (I’m 72 now) I should be used to the failure of our politicians as much as I am used to my own. Lately, and maybe because I am much more aware as an observer and outsider, the national failures have become more and more intolerable, the...
by Patrick | Apr 18, 2018 | art, art as language, Design, Environment, photography, Travel
The Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA), opened on 22 September 2017 at Cape Town’s V&A Waterfront. It is the world’s largest museum dedicated to contemporary art from Africa and its diaspora. Having seen it under construction in 2016 I was eager...
by Patrick | Mar 23, 2018 | Environment, Lifestyle, photography, Travel, wilderness
Kersbossstrand – strand as in beach. I stand on the beach and listen to the ocean, warmed by the setting sun. Today the sea whispers in soft susurrations. Sometimes it has a more resonant chant that pulses a rhythm in keeping with my heartbeat. Perhaps the pulse I...
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