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Selected Poems In Flanders Fields – two reviews

4 October, 202121 November, 2018

A sort of review of Selected Poems of Robert Graves and In Flanders Fields, two books I’ve been reading in tandem since the weekedn fo 11th November 2018.

Flanders fields, poppies and iconography

4 October, 202114 November, 2018

Of Flanders fields, poppies and iconography – something of a ramble, something of a rant and all inspired by the recent Armistice memorial events.

Opera in distress – photo of the week

14 July, 201924 August, 2018

Is Gothenburg’s Opera house in distress? Pennants flying from the nest of flagpoles outside Gothenburg’s opera, originally published August 2014

The famous Brussels pissing contest

17 July, 201925 May, 2016

A Brussels pissing contest in which Manneken Pis, Jeanneke Pis and Zenneke Pis compete to see who can urinate furthest… and get photographed the most.

Flying the Yellow Jack

14 July, 20193 February, 2016

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.

Cosmonauts and Astronauts – giant leaps for mankind

14 July, 201916 December, 2015

Cosmonauts – sailors through the cosmos; astronauts – sailors among the stars. My childhood heroes fly again at the Science Museum in London 2015-2016

Lockdown

14 July, 201925 November, 2015

In which we review the lockdown – so called – that Brussels has recently been experiencing, and view the cat meme and bad photos from around the city.