Tag Archives: carpets

Tangled up. Sometimes in blue

Posted on February 21, 2018 by

‘You’re keeping busy’, someone said to me to me this week, as if I were a retired person going on serial coach trips. Not that there’s anything wrong with coach trips. Especially if they involve drinking illicit alcohol on the … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, jaunts & going out, Britain now & then, Lancashire & the golf coast, Nature notes, Thinking, or ranting, or both, Yorkshire | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 23 Comments

Blowing in to an old new world

Posted on December 30, 2013 by

A Strauss waltz dances from the breakfast radio. Outside, the headless firs wave their arms like frenzied violinists in some arboreal orchestra. The tall birches, double basses of the tree world, waver and shiver, constrained by their stature – and … Continue reading →

Posted in Lancashire & the golf coast, Religious for a year: Atheist-man's experiment | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | 11 Comments