No More Cat Vids!
Back From Cyprus
Mixed feelings about the visit to Northern, Turkish, Cyprus. The flight is paid for by the Turkish State, for which you have to tour the various Carpet, Leather and Jewelry stores.That just lasts a morning, and then comes six days of visits to the most astonishing Greek, Roman, Crusader, Venetian and Turkish antiquities
Venice in Strabane
Girne, Kyrenia. Venetian Castle
Panagia Pergaminiotissa. N Cyprus
Panagia Pergaminiotissa
Former Christian Church in the mountains. Carefully preserved by the local people as an impromptu nature museum. “Panagia Pergaminiotissa church, at the Karpass Peninsula, Northern Cyprus”
Tug Boat Northern Cyprus
ANGELICAS 26th MARCH 2017 12:00-2:00
Angelicas ( Over Camp Hopson) in Newbury on Sunday the 26th March, The Roofstoppers with the lovely and most melodic JUDY VAUGHAN, with Basso Supremo, KEITH HOWARD.
New Era, Dressing room
Girne – Kyrenia
Girne or Kyrenia, a City in pain
Clifton Road
Another non dog
Not a finished product
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Poem for Winter
From the Letrillas Of Luis de Góngora, freely adpated by PC Ande yo caliente Y Ríase la gente Your Prince eats off golden vessels Bolting food with his thousand worries Me, I eat without fear or hurry Off a kitchen table stood on Tressles With half-inched wine, I warmly dine And a pantry […]
Bertrand, Garcon at the Cafe Aristide
The Gods smile
All these posts begin to sound like an “everything happens to me ” song . No, not at all. A more blessed existence was never lived by man or beast as mine.
The Rat
The Rodent. A poem for today There’s a dead rat under me floorboards; There’s a rodent corpse under the plank, Advanced in its decomposition The smell is decidedly rank. I tried to find its location, Small holes with a drill I did bore But the only solution before me Was to take up […]
KRETA
Back Home safely after a devious journey. I have the feeling the right Gods were not given the right sacrifices to start with. Lots of “little accidents”, Greek Air Traffic Control Strike, being abandoned at a bus station, threatened storms, and other things more explosive, etc, but some most excellent music, foood, and the delightful […]
Café Society
Some Swine had stood her up.
Bird Battle at Combe Gibbet
Up for a van cuppa near Combe Gibbett today. Witnessed monumental battle between, at first, a single crow and two Red Kites. The single crow was nearly grabbed when his mates turned up in a mob, and then the boot was on the other foot. The battle was joined later by, I think, a Raven. […]