by Patrick | Dec 14, 2013 | art, art as language, Environment, Lifestyle, photography
Dad taught me to see, taught me to draw. He had an artistic side that rarely found any outlet. He did a little marquetry but enjoyed teaching me how to image a ship’s bow looming up, how to image a Spitfire wing growing realistically off a fuselage. He made me...
by Patrick | Dec 8, 2013 | Environment, Lifestyle
I was brought up a ‘service brat’. When your father is in the services you move every three years or so. But you are not alone in this, all the kids in the married quarters around you have dads whose postings rarely coincide with yours. So you make...
by Patrick | Dec 1, 2013 | art, Environment, Lifestyle
The day started with cancellations. #Southern, our local rail company, seems incapable of running a railway properly. The morning was despoiled by cancellations on our branch line, and I had a call from OH to rescue her day trip to London. Dashing to the station I ran...
by Patrick | Nov 23, 2013 | art, Environment, Lifestyle, photography
Seaford’s seashore is a single shingle bank. Not a beach it seems but actually Seaford’s sea defence system. Some say this sea defence was made necessary by the extensions to Newhaven harbour, and the wakes of the larger vessels going in to the port which scoured away...
by Patrick | Nov 16, 2013 | Lifestyle, Remembrance
It was such a beautiful sunrise, and unusually for mid-November it was followed by a gloriously sunny day, almost Mediterranean. Now the leaves are gone from the trees I can see the headland easily from the house so after my morning porridge I took my camera for a...
by Patrick | Nov 9, 2013 | Environment, Lifestyle, Uncategorized
Its gently curving yet almost straight horns can line up when seen side on, so it may be the Oryx is the beast from which the Unicorn legend springs. Certainly Aristotle linked the name Oryx to the legend of the Unicorn. The story has it that only a virgin can capture...
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