A walk in Molenbeek
A walk – with photos – through Molenbeek, the Brussels district vilified in the international press as a hotbed of jihadist terrorist activity.
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My Three Scents
These are my three scents – three smells that each conjure up vivid double memories of events widely separated in time and place.
Particular smells
Particular smells can be immensely evocative. Kate McLean has developed a method for colecting smells into smell maps and smellscapes.
Flying the Yellow Jack
I’m now flying the yellow jack! You may already know that the international vaccination card is yellow, but it was news to me when I was given mine.
Drawing the Bottom Line in Ghent
It’s very dull, misty, grey and monochrome in Belgium at present so we choose to visit the Bottom Line – an exhibition of drawing – in Ghent.
Stories from the sleeping place
A photo visit to the cemetery at Ixelles (aka Elsene), the sleeping place for many Belgian dead and the resting place of many stories.
The Ghana Christmas ball and my father Christmas
The Ghana Christmas ball was the first Christmas present I remember receiving. I was six years old and I was given the ball by my Father Christmas.
Cosmonauts and Astronauts – giant leaps for mankind
Cosmonauts – sailors through the cosmos; astronauts – sailors among the stars. My childhood heroes fly again at the Science Museum in London 2015-2016
Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands – a review
Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty islands I have not visited and never will by Judith Schalansky – a review and an appreciation of a fascinating book.
I am diminished – in memorium Adrian Hale
This week I am diminished, made smaller, because last Friday I helped to bury my friend. I’d known Adrian since we were 10 years old and at school together.