‘Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.’ – John Lubbock, The Use Of Life This almost makes up for being at work… Continue reading #135: Break time
I took this photo 20 years ago this month as part of my photography degree show. The show was called Lost in Space and was about loneliness in a city. I might post a few of these old images over the next few months.
The trees in full bloom.
Sycamore (I think?)
‘I found an empty chair and sat on it to find myself even emptier. I found a broken glass and looked at it to see my dissolved face a little prettier’ – Munia Khan, Beyond The Vernal Mind
‘Damn everything but the circus!. . .The average ‘painter’ ‘sculptor’ ‘poet’ ‘composer’ ‘playwright’ is a person who cannot leap through a hoop from the back of a galloping horse, make people laugh with a clown’s mouth, orchestrate twenty lions.’ – E.E. Cummings
That window in the background is my office. The joy of home working is not having a horrible cold commute in winter and only being three minutes from your garden in the summer.
Just in case you were wondering where you were…
I didn’t know what a marriage settlement was until I saw this box in my local antiques warehouse yesterday. I assumed it was about divorce, but quite the opposite! Or so Wikipedia just told me!
