“INTJ: Do parties and crowds fill you with energy, or send you scurrying for peace and quiet?” The basic question contained in this latest ‘365 Days of Writing Prompts’ – do I like peace and quiet? – was so simple to answer (we live in a small hamlet that we refer to as Tranquility Base:…
‘C’est la realite de la France profonde.’ So said Serge, who was standing next to me in a group of about half a dozen blokes who, as men do, had gathered round to gawp reverently at the cochon farci which had just, to great applause, been carried into the marquee from the barbecue pit. Last…
This week’s travel theme challenge set by Ailsa on http://wheresmybackpack.com looks for the four classical elements: air, earth, fire and water AIR This was taken in the Hunter Valley in Australia, just before the mother of all rainstorms began: EARTH A ghaf tree defying the desert in the UAE: FIRE A bit of a cheat, maybe,…
After some heavy snow at the beginning of the week, the weather is set to turn warmer
New readers (and at this point you all are) start here. Still lured by the twin devils of the ego and the aesthetic (see ‘Why this blog?’) I remain hell-bent on sharing – or making available, at any rate – my ruminations on such matters as happen to grab my fancy. However, as a first…
the only deadhead in the hameau 