by Patrick | Mar 20, 2023 | Lifestyle, photography, Remembrance, Uncategorized
(This is the second of the memoires for nephews and grandchildren requested by them to help them remember and honour their grandad) I have dad’s wartime record but not his own flight book, which was burned at the end of the war. He said lots of them were burned, the...
by Patrick | Jan 27, 2023 | art, art as language, drawing, Environment, Lifestyle, photography, Remembrance, Uncategorized
Attracted to the glamour of a career in art and design, new students would arrive in college for their Foundation course, in effect the first year of a four-year degree programme. There are (or were) over 46 disciplines offered under the banner of art and design...
by Patrick | Oct 19, 2022 | art as language, Environment, Lifestyle, painting, photography, Remembrance, Travel
It’s the cat’s fault. He doesn’t mean to really, but he manages to wake me every morning before dawn. I think it is related to his nocturnal prowling but even as dawn has moved later now, in mid-October, he is still waking me around 5a.m. I lie warm under the duvet...
by Patrick | Apr 8, 2022 | acrylicpainting, art, art as language, BRotS, drawing, Environment, Lifestyle, painting, photography, Remembrance
Berlin Liberation 1945 “Frau, komm” The Soviet soldier’s pidgin-German command to females he encountered became the words every woman in Berlin from 17 to 70 knew and dreaded” From ‘The Berlin Wall’ by Frederick Taylor Ukraine Liberation 2022 It seems despite the fall...
by Patrick | Jun 22, 2021 | Environment, Lifestyle, Remembrance, wilderness
In an early memory from my childhood, one of the first pieces of music to ever stick with me, Sparky searches for his lost singing voice (listen to it at Sparky’s Magic Echo – YouTube). Released in 1949 this must have been a radio piece I listened to as a...
by Patrick | Jun 25, 2020 | art, education, Lifestyle, Remembrance
We are going through a period of change again. Periodically society gets shaken up. Right now we are seeing idle hands taking advantage of the reduction in police numbers brought on by a policy of balancing the national budget, itself blown apart by the CV-19...
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