



A better day today, sorry for the depressing posts of late. This evening I watched a DVD, which regular readers will know I do rarely, but usually enjoy it when I do take the time. Today I ...
›Art
There is a kind of ongoing joke between myself and Lee Patterson along the lines of no matter which city in the UK I go to to attend a concert I invariably find him when I arrive stood just outside the venue with a cigarette in hand. Today I wandered around the Serpentine Gallery in Hyde Park, London, and perusing a series of photos on a wall I found his ugly mug staring back out at me. There really is no escape. ;) Maybe I shouldn't have been so surprised though. The gallery was showing the first major institutional exhibition of the work of one of Lee's regular collaborators, the film-maker Luke Fowler. The exhibition was impressive, but one thing that hit ...
›Last Sunday afternoon I headed into London to see the Mark Rothko exhibition at the ...
›I spent the weekend in London with Julie. We had a great time, and I had the chance to ...
›Bleeurgh its been a rotten summer. A rotten year so far if I'm honest. Cue yet another meta-introduction to a much ...
›The undeniable pleasure, and ...
Last year The Guardian ran a weekly series called Writers' ...
Its grim oop North (but I wouldn't ...
Whilst oop in Huddersfield and with a few hours to kill on ...
Beneath the surface
So this lunchtime before taking a long walk out across the ...
