Earth-sea

Out in some lovely autumn sunshine the other day I saw this ploughed field and with the light on the furrows it just looked like waves on a choppy sea… and I thought, ‘earth…sea, earth… sea…’ and it reminded me of a series of books called ‘Earthsea’ by Ursula K. Le Guin’. Darker thoughts arrived […]

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Out for a jolly!

These workers from a pottery and tile factory were no doubt very pleased that their boss paid for them to go on a day’s outing; I’ve no idea where they are, but no doubt they went their on a train or by a charabanc…The women are sitting together, with the men all around them, but […]

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Cheese… as far as the eye can see!

We went to the BBC Good Food show in Birmingham… and there were some lovely things to taste, see, smell, enjoy… but I was amazed, yes amazed at this exhibition of world cheeses I think there must have been thousands of different cheeses there, from all corners of the worldThere were a lot of stalls […]

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