It's been a hell of a month and what with one thing and another I am today suspending this blog until further notice. To my readers past and present, at home and overseas, I send good wishes; all my thinks are thanks.
In these dire times I find I'm thinking a lot about the words of Alasdair Gray:
WORK AS IF YOU LIVE IN THE EARLY DAYS OF A BETTER NATION
Here's the June index - click on the title to link to the blog.
01 May index - all the blogs you never read
- 02 How to make ink - a visit to The Stephens Collection
- 03 Shakespeare would never work for Google - let's scotch that myth
- 04 Idea Spotlight User Community - the British Library has a bad idea
- 05 Buffet froid - on Bernard Buffet, artist
- 06 Mirror or window - what is fiction for?
- 07 Most searched-for books of 2015 - a disturbing list
- 08 Silent film music - Facing Death (Andante, Largo)
- 09 An American Accent in London - why can't British actors do American?
- 10 Prufrock self-assessment checklist - self-explanatory
- 11 John Claridge's East End - some wonderful photographs
- 12 Zadie Smith on the novel - was she right in 2008?
- 13 Orlando - on gun crime and hatred
- 14 Favourite snatches (20) - two poems by Yeats
- 15 'Twas the night before Bloomsday . . . sone thoughts on 'Finneganight'
- 16 Bloomsday blog - be a warm day I fancy
- 17 The day after Bloomsday - more thoughts on Finneganight
- 18 On Nigel Farage - a really nasty piece of work
- 19 On Paolo Coelho - the writer as idiot
- 20 On Barry Humphries - his finest hour
- 21 Thatcher statue - any old iron
- 22 On the back of a napkin - a metaphor examined
- 23 On the Referendum, sort of - reflections on the Daily Mail
- 24 On leaving Europe - the lights are going out
- 25 The Fall of Rome - a poem written to make Cyril Connolly cry
- 26 Unhealthy obsessions: a first checklist - in a confessional mood
- 27 Euchred - a new word for an old thing
- 28 Henry Hall, lighthouse keeper - the stuff of nightmare
- 29 Hello sailor - Matelot by Michael Cullup
- 30 You don't know Jack - three books by Jack Robinson
Salvēte!
