…things are getting a tad chilly over here. Some mornings all you can hear is a couple of thuds from the brass monkey cage. One great thing about living here is when it’s really cold you know it’s going to be sunny – I took this photo just as the frost was melting in the [...]
Monthly Archives: December 2008
Strictly by candle light…
December 14, 2008 – 2:58 pm
A million years ago when I had hair and Ronald Reagan was having a career change we used to sit around an open fire, playing instruments, singing songs. We drank, we smoked, we fell over in the mud. Portugal was a natural place to be – we had no mains electricity or water. No mobile [...]
Plastic Fantastic…
December 12, 2008 – 7:24 pm
…is the new set of icons by my big brother Tiggz He lives in a small mossy cave in the foothills of the East Sussex mountain range where he forages for grubs and lichen. During his nocturnal awakenings he manipulates coloured pixels and data designing widgets and GUIs (graphical user interface). These endeavours have won [...]
It started with a kiss…
December 8, 2008 – 8:21 pm
…actually it started with a certain Tango (grrr) leaving a comment at Papersurfer nearly one year ago. She thanked me for making her smile which made me smile. I drifted through her blog and flickr pages and smiled some more. A cheeky email later and we started to chat on messenger. A lot. It was [...]
One more Hackney summer
December 2, 2008 – 9:06 pm
I’m not sure why but the seemingly endless drive across Spain; through the snow dusted mountains of Asturia, the vast arable deserts of the plains and the barren granite hills that lead down into Portugal’s forests took my mind to a friend that I lost a few years ago. I’ve wanted to write about him [...]