I won't repeat the dirty schoolboy joke which gave me the idea for the title of this effort!
It has nothing to do with the fact that I'm using Firefox, either!
Mainly Pictures. with some words about them, and perhaps a little bullshit. I don't know if they're any good. But I like them, which is all that really matters!
Sunday, 31 March 2013
Up Sandy Lane
I won't repeat the dirty schoolboy joke which gave me the idea for the title of this effort!
It has nothing to do with the fact that I'm using Firefox, either!
Saturday, 30 March 2013
Gron's Stone
Another picture illustrating the Mabinogion story mentioned in my 'Welsh Legend' picture.
Girl and Rooster
Dunno what possessed me to do a picture like this. It's charming and quaint, I suppose...
Friday, 29 March 2013
The Martello Tower at Monkstown near Dublin
When I was in Ireland some years ago, I liked to think this was the same Martello Tower mentioned in James Joyce's Ullysess. It wasn't!
Thursday, 28 March 2013
Cornish Quoits
In Cornwall Neolithic burial chambers or cromleches are for some reason called 'quoits'.
Here are four of them. Apart from the Zennor quoit, all within easy reach of Penzance.
Lanyon Quoit
Wednesday, 27 March 2013
Broken Staues on the Shore
The Wallace Stevens quote above is only a very small part of a much longer poem. But this extract is almost a complete Haiku in itself.
I love Steven's poetry. If I could write like him, I wouldn't be farting about on here!
Tuesday, 26 March 2013
Welsh Legend
The idea for this picture came from the fourth story (or as the Welsh would have it - branch) of the Mabinogion It is a story featuring, wizards, witches, women created from flowers and then turned into owls (the name Blodeuwedd means owl-face), infidelity, murder, rape and ressurection, and lots more.
If you can't read Welsh, or can't stand Lady Charlotte Guest's translation, all four of the Mabinogion's branches have been brilliantly retold by Evangeline Walton (look her up on Wikki), and this story in particular is the basis for Alan Garner's book : The Owl Service.
Painted in acrylics.
Pictures of people I Admire
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| BOB DYLAN |
The Man himself.
In the mid 60's, us lads wanted to be the British Bob Dylan (who people in my circle called 'The Bard'), and the girls wanted to be Joan Baez. so we all brought ourselves guitars, and did our best to emulate our heroes and heroines.
Rather sad and silly you may think - and you would be right. But having said this, can you imagine members of today's youth (whom I must admit are much smarter than we were) wanting to be a British Justin Bieber? Mind you, if Bieber did an album of Dylan songs, then I might become a 'Belieber'!
As for Donovan, who was at the time criticized for copying Dylan, the only thing he really had in common with the Bard was the harmonica rack. Donovan was in Faeryland, whilst Dylan's songs and poems were rooted in nitty-gritty reality.
That's my opinion, anyway - for what it's worth
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| ALLEN GINSBERG |
I saw the best minds of my generation moronically reading kindles on busses and train, and listening to Justin Bieber songs. And I thought if they are the best minds of our generation - then God help humanity!
Painted in acrylics.
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| ROBERT JOHNSON |
This man influenced so many of our Rock musicians including Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton (Crossroads is a Robert Johnson song).
It is said he died by being poisoned by the husband of a woman Robert was having an affair with.
No-one knows where his grave is, so perhaps he's working in a 7/11 somewhere with Elvis!
Pained in acrylics.
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| OZZY OSBOURNE |
Here he is - the Prince of Darkness.
One thing I left out of this picture was Ozzy's 'pet shoe'.
In the early 60's Ozzy could be seen wandering about Birmingham dragging behind him a shoe on the end of a piece of string, and when asked what he was doing would say 'I'm taking my pet shoe for a walk'.
I once tweeted Ozzy's Twitter account asking how his pet shoe was doing. Needless to say, I did not get a reply!
A Message From The Sun
I had this dream about an Apollo-like youth who came out of the sea and gave me a message from the sun.
The actual message was so ridiculous, I won't repeat it here!
A Man OF Kent At The Man Of Kent
The Man of Kent referred to is my father who spent a lot of time at a pub of this name.
Lila Howe, Yorkshire
A 7th Century Saxon Cross on top of an even older burial mound on the North York Moors.
Monday, 25 March 2013
Friday, 22 March 2013
Views of Kent
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| St. Mary in the Marsh, Romney Marshes |
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| Otford Palace |
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| The Gatehouse, Eynsford |
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| Tump near Otford |
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| Tump near Shoreham |
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| Romney Street |
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