Unusual…well, my daughter spotted this unusual grave decoration when we visited the beautiful Highgate Cemetery, London. The much loved author Douglas Adams’ fans leave their most precious pens in the pot. Of course we did as well. We are all only Hitchhikers here, aren’t we…
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Letters S or T The staircase, Trinity College, Dublin, The Old Library, The Long Room
For PR – promoting things, like Lars Wallin clothes, we still use paper… Writing novels, short stories and poetry… Writing other important, or less important, messages… Paper craft… Information and news… …and for candy bags of course… So, except for wrapping paper, these were a few more I found in my pockets, for Ailsa!
Cheri Lucas Rowlands encourages us to show a picture of Quest. An almost impossible task…When I think of this word, Quest, I think of all my teaching years in literature and all the glorious quests portrayed there: The Epic of Gilgamesh, a Sumerian story, The Odyssey by Homer, Siddhartha by Herman Hesse, The Hobbit […]Read Post ›
A rather big city, renowned for its yearly dangerous race between men and bulls… …running along this street… …ending up in the arena on the other side of these red doors. The man who made this race known to the whole world had a street named after him here – just beside the arena. And […]Read Post ›
Travel theme: Writing We once started writing to sum up collected taxes and to label things. We still do. But, we also write for many other reasons – Love for example, and for religious reasons (I guess that too is out of love). Sometimes the writing is not that beautiful…but still written out of love. […]Read Post ›
Travel theme this week is all about poetry. William Wordsworth´s poem To Daffodils is one of my favourites. Especially since I found this marvellous illustration on it. Showing my students this piece of ”art cartoonery” from an unknown artist has been one of my ”musts” in life.
Ailsa at Where’s My Backpack ? wants us to use our senses – and one of the places where most senses are at work is the Jokhang temple in Tibet. The dense smoke and all the people – eating, waiting, praying… …and the Tibetan landscape…its vastness and immense beauty, Its total silence is overwhelming. […]Read Post ›
One of my favourite poets is William Butler Yeats – here a poem for the WordPress’ Challenge Half-Light. He Wishes For the Cloths of Heaven William Butler Yeats Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and […]Read Post ›
Indoor seating for Cee this week – I just adored this chair at J.K. Rowling ‘s favourite café (where she wrote Harry Potter) in Edinburgh – The Elephant House. And… in case you have got some money you do not know how to spend… …and maybe you are in desperate need of a hand carved […]Read Post ›
