-
Recent posts
Topics
- Follow MEMOIRS OF A HUSK on WordPress.com
-
Category Archives: Britain now & then
If you would like to see a few more pictures and a video you have to turn sideways to watch, oops! 😉 of the small press I visited and wrote about in Dylan, dogs and the devil it is now … Continue reading
Where there is sun, there are shadows
I couldn’t identify the Big Friendly Giant – but then he had no nose. The bishop, though, was instantly recognisable. He had a mitre. And a sign. Plus he was standing right beside the church gate. His ecclesiastical lordship, the … Continue reading
Dylan, dogs and the Devil
The gale force wind had calmed a little, though the evidence remained. Everywhere the verges were strewn with debris, as if an automotive bridal procession had just passed by, the bridesmaids strewing branches. Late, as usual, stress kept me company … Continue reading
Posted in Art, jaunts & going out, Britain now & then
Tagged books, dogs, ephemera, forgery, illustration, letterpress, Oldham, Poetry, post-industirial England, printing, small press
18 Comments
In the midst of life
Saturday 17 December 1983. The Science Museum basement, London Not many people – to my knowledge – had seen that basement. Apart from staff. But there wasn’t time for a good look around. There had been a bomb threat and … Continue reading
High on a hill was a lonely …
Me. Not a goatherd. And not so much lonely as alone. It was the fords across the stream that did it, made me think of The Sound of Music. That and the hill. Which, to one used to the flat … Continue reading
“The Glory of the Garden it abideth not in words”
You know me, never one word where 932 or so will do. But today I’m going to give you pictures and little else. Yes, okay, I admit it, the red words in my last post did cause a minor tiff. … Continue reading
Posted in Britain now & then, Lancashire & the golf coast, Nature notes
Tagged balm for the spirit, bees, flowers, gardens, herons, nature reserves, spring, trees
22 Comments
MEMOIRS OF A HUSK 