Showing posts with label whimsy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label whimsy. Show all posts
Monday, 14 July 2014

Hating the untidiness of whimsy - the curse of local councils

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**** Control, direct, order, limit, ban, manage, prevent, dictate, regulate, licence, stop. Sadly these are the words that best define m...
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Friday, 19 July 2013

Whimsical quote of the day...

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**** Love this from David Hadley : Of course, one of the great problems with Stonehenge, as it was initially envisaged, was that – at ...
Wednesday, 6 October 2010

Wednesday Whimsy: The place where Gods are made.

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There is a place, I know it for sure, where the Gods are made. And it is a special place. Not calm, not beautiful, not a land flowing with ...
Wednesday, 4 August 2010

A little more on Whimsy....

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I am – as my more avid and assiduous readers will know – something of a fan of whimsy. If we’re allowed to use such a base word as ‘fan’ to...
Wednesday, 24 March 2010

Wednesday Whimsy: Jackdaws and Red Wine

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I tried to take some pictures of jackdaws playing round the towers in Volterra . I say play because - despite the anthropomorphism - I can...
Thursday, 28 January 2010

Apple iPad - carved from the living earth and powered by pixies

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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke , "Profiles of The Future", 1961 (Clarke...
Wednesday, 23 December 2009

Wednesday Whimsy: Remembering a White Christmas

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I was nine when I experienced my first white Christmas. My memory may be a little rose-tinted but we’d set off to walk to midnight mass at O...
Wednesday, 9 December 2009

Wednesday whimsy: On words and wishes.

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*** The curtains are drawn, the lights dimmed, the birthday cake arrives bedecked with candles, the child’s face sparkles with joy and excit...
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Sunday, 6 December 2009

A moment of whimsical generosity

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*** Kathryn & I went to see Nativity - very sweet, uplifting and...well, whimsical. Queueing up to contribute my small amount to NCP...
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Wednesday, 18 November 2009

(More) Wednesday Whimsy: serendipity

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*** Blogged about ghosts and fairies this morning and found myself talking about ghosts & fairies in a session on culture and place-maki...
Tuesday, 3 November 2009

On whimsy....

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Whimsy: 1. An odd or fanciful idea; a whim. 2. A quaint or fanciful quality This piece started with me exploring the meaning of whimsy and h...
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