America
Where the Surf Meets the Turf
In their 1963 hit single, the Beach Boys sang that if everybody had an ocean (across the USA) then they’d all be surfing, like in Cal-if-orn-i-a. In the first line of the chorus, they went [more…]
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Family Holiday Torture
Following on from Novak and Goode’s excellent postcard from Vilnius, I thought I’d share some photos of our trip there in October last year. I’ve been before as my mate married a Lithuanian girl and [more…]
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The Swaling, Part Fourteen
Rather than being in a nun’s hostel, or a train compartment (with the Spanish army sleeping in the luggage racks), we’re on a balcony at the Royal Maroc hotel in Tangiers, thanks to Tammy and [more…]
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Ice Station Zero
Idly browsing the Interweb the other day, I came across this BBC article on the terrible outlook for the ice sheet around the North Pole: Arctic Summers to be ice-free by 2013. Well worth a [more…]
America
Why is Portland Like Portland?
If Chicago is “The Windy City”, New York, “The Big Apple”, New Orleans, “The Big Easy” and Reno, Nevada, “The Biggest Little City in the World”, then Portland, Oregon, is “A Big Retirement Home for [more…]
19th Century
I never meant to write a novel
Today A Bear’s Diary is published as a hardback. It has been available as an ebook for a couple of months. It’s a shortish novel at 65,000 words, decorated with old engravings which give it [more…]
Arts
The Swaling, Part Thirteen
Sitting on the dockside at Algeciras, myself and Tammy dangle our dirty feet over the Eastern Mediterranean, next to a giant but idle Transmediterranea roll-on roll-off ferry. The ship’s company are enjoying their late afternoon [more…]
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Wankpuffin – Isolation Mix
More Wankpuffin videos here. © EJ 2020
Arts
Lino Cut Printing, First Attempt
I’ve collected wood block and linocut prints for years, it is a cheap hobby, competently done prints can be bought for a few pounds whilst coloured prints by famous artists can run to hundreds of [more…]