When we bought a cheap tunnel house this year it wasn’t to grow green super worms with patterns but the best laid plans of this naive gardener… I digress, first I went a bit mad and grew capsicums, aubergines, basil, cucumbers and flowers to attract bees, all from seed. By the time the raised beds…
Recessive jeans
My parents shaped my way beyond my DNA. Hard as it is to believe, those two humble Scots forged my fashion destiny. To this day, my clothing choices hark back to them. Thanks Mom and Dad. My father (normally a mild-mannered man) got in first when he forbade the wearing of denim jeans from under his roof. This…
There’s a kākāpō at a library near you!
You can imagine the joy at Central Manchester when a kākāpō emerged from the returns bin. Not the real McCoy, you understand, but a beautifully sewn replica – one of several kākāpō that have been hidden around Christchurch as part of Sayraphim Lothian’s Guerrilla Kindness for Christchurch project. Described as “a Persian cat with feathers“, the kākāpō is…
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery…
Wending my way between libraries I invariably used to spend the travelling time with the radio on, listening to myself trilling a completely unnecessary accompaniment to Kenny Rogers’ Coward of the County and The Gambler (seemingly the only two songs on the radio station). It got to the stage where, similar to the Pavlov Dogs experiment…
I (sorta) heart road works
Some people might think that I love road works with all the road cones, big trucks and stop’n’go men. I do, sort of. It is a sign that things are being repaired. There is a great website to help you get around the city and suburbs. With a bit of planning, you should be able to…
New Year’s Resolution (6)
The latest title off my list of seven books from The Guardian Best Books of 2013 was the most challenging so far. William Boyd thought that Breakfast with Lucian by Geordie Greig was “fascinating, intimate… a revelation. Every question I had about Freud – from the aesthetic to the intrusively gossipy – was answered with great candour and…
I found a book at the library! Imagine that!
I was so excited the other day when I discovered that my favourite blogger’s book is available right here at the library – if I hadn’t been in the middle of helping a lovely young mum search the catalogue for parenting DVDs I would have SQUEEEEEE!!-ed. Thankfully I managed to contain my enthusiasm and save us both from embarrassment…
A sandwich-board man advertising dancing shoes in Cathedral Square: Picturing Canterbury
A sandwich-board man advertising dancing shoes in Cathedral Square, Christchurch Christchurch City Libraries, File Reference CCL PhotoCD 6, IMG0041 From our Faces of our Forebears heritage image collection Local pictures on the blog Browse our image collection A Sandwich-board Man Advertising Dancing Shoes In Cathedral Square, Christchurch…
Recent necrology, March 2014
Some well-known people who have died recently: Tony Benn, 1925-2014 British Labour Party politician, orator, campaigner and diarist, recognisable by his pipe, tape recorder and outsized mug Clarissa Dickson Wright, 1947-2014 Bombastic, outspoken lawyer who was brought to her knees by riches and alcoholism then rose again as a cook on Two Fat Ladies Ann…
Less is more?
When you read a short story, you come out a little more aware and a little more in love with the world around you. ~George Saunders. I have always enjoyed reading short stories, most probably because I have the attention span of a gnat coupled with a huge need to dissect and psychoanalyze given situations…
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