April 2, 2012

some pretty good things...

April is here with her ripe and bursting trees! Yesterday London was the colour of an old bra, but today the sun is out and my [...]

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August 28, 2011

twenty eight...

We took a post-lunch wander through the Seven Dials and stumbled upon the fabulous Museum of Broken Relationships. Random trinkets of lost love are accompanied with a summary [...]

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August 18, 2011

the colour of pain...

As I am wheeled down the corridor towards the ward I can hear music. We slow to turn a corner and Queen Victoria stares coldly down [...]

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March 2, 2010

notes on happiness...

One: Founder of behavioral economics and Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman spoke at TED on myths about happiness: ‘We don’t choose between experiences, we choose between memories [...]

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February 25, 2010

friday five: dingledodies...

There is something irresistible to me about the veneer of small town respectability, and especially the characters who live on the edges. I think it comes [...]

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February 6, 2010

the seventy-six seconds that justify the existen...

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October 31, 2009

halloween...

Jon Klassen’s submission to Susan Rich’s compendium of ‘instant frights’, Half-Minute Horrors.

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October 7, 2009

the face of britain...

Thousand Portraits: ‘our project is a true portrait of Britain created by photographing 1,000 people. We stopped everyone who crossed our path on the streets of [...]

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October 2, 2009

friday five: cream of the indie crop...

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July 23, 2009

'anything to hold the terrible silence at b...

Tonight, we are off to see Vladimir and Estragon. If by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot ~ Beckett

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July 8, 2009

wanted: wookey hole witch...

For three summer holidays at Otago, I worked at Student Job Search. There was an awful lot of demand for night-shift shelf-stackers at the Warehouse. The [...]

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May 6, 2009

the truth shall set you free...

In 1988, artist James Sanborn was commissioned to create an outdoor sculpture to adorn the CIA’s facility in Langley, Virginia. He created Kryptos, a 10-foot high [...]

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