Attenborough after the rain
2
Oct
The Trent is swollen today … … and the nature reserve busy. Sloes earlier than usual. Egyptian geese. * * *
Author Archives: steel city scribe
Bard of Avon – busted!
1
Oct
Three short reads from September
29
Sep
this post also features in offguardian [ezcol_1half][/ezcol_1half] [ezcol_1half_end]Let none accuse me of frivolity. My reads this month could not be more serious. As the West continues to vilify Russia, Tony Kevin gives a more sober assessment. While the trashing of … Read More »
Russia’s Defence Minister speaks
28
Sep
If it weren’t so serious it would be amusing, the way so many Westerners, including some of my friends and family, react to my frequently checking in on what Russia Today has to say. It must be propaganda, right? (Subtext: … Read More »
Death in Yemen: the British connection
27
Sep
Meanwhile in London, September 26, 2019 … Click on the above image for the full story. * * *
A tale of two Brexits
24
Sep
I am in many ways a fully paid up member of the liberal middle classes, even if I appear to have gone off the rails of late. Ours is an extreme world. How else describe one of such staggering and … Read More »
Nottingham to Newark by canoe
21
Sep
Thursday night wasn’t the first time I’d slept on the canoe, just my first time while on the water. These next two images – heavily Photoshopped, to show far more detail than I could make out at nine pm in … Read More »
Sex near the city
18
Sep
Attenborough yesterday. The early autumn fruits are ready – apple and blackberry, elderberry, hawberry and rosehip. Horse chestnut even. While cabbage whites do floral cunnilingus, honey bees go deep stick. Everyone’s a winner. Red winged damselflies do it in the … Read More »
The oil paintings of Anne Penman Sweet
13
Sep
On the western edge of Bloomsbury, Conway Street is a four minute walk from Warren Street and busy Tottenham Court Road, and thirty seconds from elegant Fitzroy Square Garden. Here at number 2, close to the junction with Maple Street, … Read More »
A short walk from St Neots
12
Sep
The nights are drawing in. Though not yet nine pm it had been dark the best part of an hour. I squeezed the Skoda between two trucks hunkered down for the night on a layby a few miles west of … Read More »