From the category archives:
I am not obsessed with fish.
I started not being obsessed in 2000, when I read that a tuna had sold in Tokyo for $50,000. My friends enjoyed the anecdote even though they secretly didn’t believe me. A few months later, another Japanese bluefin broke the $100,000 barrier. They believed me then.
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For the real genius of Three Men… lies not with the action but within Jerome’s ever witty mind. This can only be brought across effectively on the printed page. His riffs about the difficulties of putting a framed picture up on a wall, the construction of an Irish stew, or the challenges of learning the Scottish bagpipe are hilarious and charming.
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I first saw Hodgkin’s work two years ago in the stark, cathedral-like spaces of the Gagosian gallery in London. And in that first encounter with Hodgkin’s art at the Gagosian, I was stunned to discover that, up until then, I had had no idea what art was really for.
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Eleven years ago Justin Miles was in a near fatal car accident. Overnight he went from being a healthy, carefree 26-year-old fitness trainer to not being able to walk or talk. It would be a long road to wellness. Today, at 37 and fully recovered, Justin prepares for an Antarctic journey.
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The Green Line is a UN patrolled area splitting the independent island of Cyprus into two. In the North are the occupying Turkish forces which invaded in 1974 and created the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus in 1983, a state recognised in the world only by Turkey. The Green Line is fascinating and was a place I had to see.
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India and Britain’s current links are impressive: India is the 2nd largest job creator in the UK and the UK is India’s largest trading partner in Europe. But there is the potential for so much more.
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and then, as if to sing a lullaby or union tune, she plucked, like harp, the silky strings of light she shone upon this island shell, and so we heard a vibrant, cosmic sitar drone….. a sound at first like ten thousand worker honey bees, as two giant bears appeared, climbed down they did from ‘mongst the stars…..”I send you friends” whispered Moon ..
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I feel like there’s a slim possibility that I may be a natural storyteller, but I’m definitely not a natural writer, screenwriter, or director. I always feel like the story exists on its own, and then I clumsily cram it inside the format. So for me it’s a bit like asking, which feels more natural? flip-flops, loafers, or work-boots? None of them feel like bare-feet.
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WARWICK CAIRNS IS AWAY
but we have managed to get hold of a sneak preview of the front cover for his new book.
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This August bank holiday: A local Greeting Card Publisher and Windsor Farm Shop are pleased to announce their
CHILDREN’S SUMMER ART COMPETITION
Would you like your picture on a greeting card?
Simply draw or paint a picture on the theme of
‘I love WINDSOR’
The overall winner’s image will be reproduced as a greeting card for sale in the Windsor Farm Shop.
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I think all of the ‘important’ things about a person – their principles, their opinions, their positions on the issues of the day – I think that none of them matter anywhere near as much, or are even half so revealing, as the little, inconsequential, guilty pleasures they can’t help but be drawn towards
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I am a huge fan of films that explore stories and characters that don’t have great big stereotypes hanging over them and ‘If You Ever Get to Heaven’ is definitely one of those films.
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Taking International String Under The Wire
Tuning up for Windsor Festival
Cypress, a holiday on The Green Line
If You Ever Get To Heaven Film Poster
In Praise of Savagery, by Warwick Cairns, jacket cover
Joe and Amanda Atkins at the pre-release screening of "If You Ever Get To Heaven", at the Firestation Centre for Arts and Culture, Windsor, UK
Three Men In A Boat, To Say Nothing Of The Dog
White Waltham Primary School art workshop
Cynthia Barlow Marrs ASGFA
Ana Silvera
Warwick Cairns, author and Beat columnist
Julian H Cope - reviewed on Beat
A Moments Notice, by Dan Prescott
What, by illustrator Jenny Robins
Julian H Cope, by Richmond Harding
The New Goodbye, by Neil Ayres
Marie Phillips, by Alexandra Scannell
14/4 Literary Dinner
Robert Hudson
Shelter From The Storm, by Sid Griffin