A selection of writings, speeches, photographs and events as well as some of my favourite literary passages.
Tuesday, 27 November 2007
Favourite Places in Winter and Summer
Stocks and Harvestgate in winter sunshine
Harvestgate Farm at harvest time. This is one of my first digital photos taken in 1998; the 100 acre field above Harvestgate.
Click the photos as they are better full size. Also click the heading for more photos of the downs at Stocks and Harvestgate
Friday, 23 November 2007
Saturday, 17 November 2007
Sunday, 11 November 2007
Wednesday, 7 November 2007
Tuesday, 6 November 2007
Monday, 29 October 2007
Leave It Alone!
"In everything the wise man does not seek greater precision than the subject allows." - Aristotle
"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone" - Thoreau
"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone" - Thoreau
Old Age
"I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left."
Voltaire
‘God grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway; the good fortune to run into the ones I do - and the eyesight to tell the difference’
Voltaire
‘God grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway; the good fortune to run into the ones I do - and the eyesight to tell the difference’
Saturday, 27 October 2007
Kei's Painting
Thursday, 25 October 2007
China
This is the French-designed National Theatre in Beijing juxtaposed against the Great Hall of the People. Locals call it 'The Omlette'...
This is a new open-sided mall in Beijing called The Place. The 'roof' is made from the largest LCD screens in the world and is 250 yards long by 30 yards wide. Above you float blue wales and red planets to an awe-inspiring score. Take a seat in one of the cafes lining the mall and be astonished!
Try clicking the image to see it at a more lifelike size...
Try clicking the image to see it at a more lifelike size...
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