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When Babylon has fallen, what then? What shards and fragments shall we rescue from its ruins, and what new temples shall we make from them? When evil has evaporated, what then shall we have to fight against? The world may seem an endless afternoon . . .

- Fernando Pessoa

Your hitching map! I remember a Route Nationale heading dead straight out of Calais which seemed to go on forever

Darwin stayed in a house near here on the Mawddach estuary while writing The Descent of Man in the summer of 1869.

"Old Cader [Idris] is a grand fellow, and shows himself off perfectly with every changing light."

- Darwin

Or old dependency of day and night

Cerrig Arthur, above the Mawddach Valley, Gwynedd. Diffwys in the background.

On the night platform

Good morning, Buddha

The iron gatepost is the last remaining relic of the Pyrgo estate, Havering, Essex, where Princesses Mary and Elizabeth Tudor spent a large part of their childhoods, an easy day's ride from London.

Spending the day defragging my hard drive. Looking forward to those fast fast read speeds tomorrow.

the scratch of the head! the slurred speech as she looks in the cupboard!

If you didn't fall in love with Diane Keaton the first time you saw the Uncle George story scene, your heart must've been made of stone . . .
DK 1946 - 2025

Kashmir, 1980s

Seated goddess with a child, gold, Hittite Empire, Central Anatolia c. 14th–13th century BCE

Three rocks from the Chalbi Desert, Kenya

Lalibela, Ethiopia

Thank you!

" . . . It could have been billed, just as accurately, as an evening of contemporary hurdy-gurdy and bagpipe music, but that might have scared some timid souls away."

"It had been billed as “an evening of contemporary sitar music”, which was perhaps slightly misleading in that none of us had ever seriously played a sitar, nor had we brought one with us . . . "

Spacemen 3: 'A monkey could play one note. But could a stoned monkey?' In an extract from his memoir, Spacemen 3 bassist Will Carruthers recalls one journey in search of the drone that bemused cinemagoers in Brentford

Feed your head: listen to Spacemen 3's sensational 44-minute "Dreamweapon" while reading Will Carruthers' hilarious account of the creation of the piece:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_qA...

www.theguardian.com/music/2016/s...

" . . . It could have been billed, just as accurately, as an evening of contemporary hurdy-gurdy and bagpipe music, but that might have scared some timid souls away."

"It had been billed as “an evening of contemporary sitar music”, which was perhaps slightly misleading in that none of us had ever seriously played a sitar, nor had we brought one with us . . . "

Planting Horned Poppies in my inland suburban garden, very optimistically #jarman #thegarden #prospect

Here's a piece I wrote about a medieval church font in Dorset:
mbalax.substack.com/p/wild-bruti...

Last night's Moon.

Carnival characters

They do love an elbow - exquisite adaptation

Within the chaptere-house of the Abbey at West Minstere, a grate nobel fysshe, al goldene hewed