waterbaby
I started back at the swimming again today. That again is quite telling. It tells you I have been swimming on several well spaced apart occasions in the last indistinct period. I’m back at my old...
View Articleshop review: Casi One, Brussels
Way back in the mists of time, I bought a Caran D’Ache Ecridor in a stationery shop which stuck in my memory by location, rather than by name. It may have been a Prisma (which you cannot currently get...
View ArticleLiving in the Future
Last Saturday, Youtube celebrated its 10th birthday. We’ll skip the whole Valentine’s Day and move swiftly onwards to what Youtube means to me. Youtube is the future writ large. Right now, if I want, I...
View Articlereview: 849 popline, turquoise
I have been a user of Caran D’Ache ballpoint pens since I was 16 years old. This is more than 20 years. Fact. Most of the pens I own are from their Ecridor Range which costs around 110E for a ball...
View ArticleJourneys in language
Amongst the many things I don’t currently own, or at least, did not own up to a very recent point in time, was an English dictionary. This was a bit of a lack in my life; I own a two volume Finnish...
View ArticleDeutsches Museum
On an island in the middle of the River Isar in Munich is one of the greatest museums in the world. I can say that advisedly. The Deutsches Museum on Museum Island is overwhelming. It is one of the...
View Articlelittle gems we should value more
I went to the National Museum in Kildare Street yesterday. It was busy enough, and a significant number of people were tourists, so I guess that is all good. If I had to leave Dublin in the morning,...
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Ceiling
Mostly I take photographs on my phone these days to sketch later. This is the ceiling of the National Museum of Archaeology in Kildare Street. I think it is beautiful.
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Neolithic monuments in Ireland
Newgrange is one of the highest profile historic sites which we have in the country and when most people talk about going to Newgrange, they mean they want to see this one. When I go to Newgrange, I...
View ArticleSchleiper Creative
I was in Brussels a few weeks ago looking up the European Union’s open house event. When I was europeanunioned out, I took a trip to an art supply shop called Schleiper. When I say it was by some...
View Articlereview: Beautiful Goodbye/Richard Marx
So, somewhere amongst my possessions there are a few Richard Marx cassettes. I was a fan when I was 14 years old and of all the music I was listening to nearly 30 years ago, he’s one of the few I’m...
View ArticleFirst impressions: Kusmi
Most people who know me are aware there’s a tea thing going on in my life, and if you know me at all well, you’ll know that the default choice if I have access to it is Marco Polo Noir from the Mariage...
View ArticleBoxed Lives
I have an ongoing struggle to organise stuff in my life. I own a lot of stuff. I own a lot of CDs, a lot of notebooks, a lot of books. And I’m limited in how I can organise things to keep them under...
View ArticleBrunch @ Brother Hubbard
My plans for today fell apart at around 3.30 this morning and in the end, I wound up in the Capel Street area having discovered that Evans Art Supplies sell Copic markers while actually spending money...
View Articlethe VW T1 Campervan, bus, variations on a split screen theme
I started a painting project last week, part of a project to make me more comfortable sketching things and making it easier to paint, called, rather unofficially, the vw campervan project. I have a...
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Main Railway Station, Helsinki
It’s three years since I was last in Finland – I’d say it was far too long but there was a 14 year gap prior to that. Anyway, for various art related reasons I wanted a picture of an icebreaker and I...
View ArticleSmall pleasures
I do not know what time sunrise is these days but as I left the house at 6 this morning, it was to face the sun coming over the roofs of the house across from my own. It was truly beautiful. I woke at...
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Walking around a winter wonderland
It snowed in Luxembourg this morning. It was a rather lovely, peaceful snowy scene in the park near my apartment this morning so I took a walk around it before going in search of furniture. I wandered...
View ArticleHouse decor
Someone else in the past helpfully hammered a couple of nails in the wall and I found them the other day. As a result, I bought a couple of frames and did some Art for the walls Dream Holiday...
View ArticleOld habits die and return all of a sudden
Most of my perfume is in Ireland but I must confess that at some point between around 2005 and 2010 I stopped wearing perfume regularly. I don’t really know why – it was around the same time I seemed...
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