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More from Land Of Oak and Iron
- Gawd Bless Yers Fairport Convention May 11, 2013
- Leave Our Kids Alone April 11, 2013
- The Best Fish and Chips in England April 6, 2013
- Life’s Little Luxuries March 17, 2013
- The Golden Hour February 9, 2013
- The Secret of Great Fried Rice February 1, 2013
- Hot Cuisine From a Moominland Midwinter January 24, 2013
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Gawd Bless Yers Fairport Convention
I went to see Fairport Convention at The Borderline in London last night. I don’t go to gigs as much as I used to. Actually, these days, I hardly go at all and I went largely because my friend Don … Continue reading
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Tagged BBC, Cropredy, Fairport Convention, Folk Cuckoo, Island Records, Matthias Shw, Matty Groves, Percy Pyckwyll, Tunbridge Wells, Wynder K. Frog
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Leave Our Kids Alone
Today, together with my friend Rupert Read I launched a campaign to end advertising targetting young children. It started with a letter to the Daily Telegraph (below). It’s called Leave Our Kids Alone and we’ve started a petition. Please sign … Continue reading
The Best Fish and Chips in England
I eat fish and chips more than I should – more than I should because often as not they’re a bit disappointing. However I’d gladly eat them a good deal less often if whenever I did eat them it was … Continue reading
Life’s Little Luxuries
‘Luxury’, ‘deluxe’ and ‘exclusive’ must be amongst the most debased words in the English language. For heaven’s sakes, even Lidl labels some of its food products ‘luxury’. What’s worse we’ve been encouraged to expect ‘luxury as standard’, whatever that means. … Continue reading
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Tagged Cheaney shoes, consumption, Deruta, luxury, shaving soap, Trumper
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The Golden Hour
Photographers and cameramen love dawn light. The hour around dawn is often referred to as ‘the golden hour’, similarly the hour around sunset. However of the two I tend to find dawn more powerful. Partly this is because, these days, … Continue reading
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Tagged Bali, dawn, living with your camera, photography, Sussex, the golden hour, winter
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The Secret of Great Fried Rice
I have to confess that I used to find fried rice difficult. That seems silly. What’s so hard about frying a bit of rice? The thing is, I’d end up with a stodgy, soggy mess that was almost, but not … Continue reading
The World Anew
Seven or eight years ago I spent a few weeks in Pakistan and India. We travelled there, first and foremost, so we could attend two friends’ wedding in Lahore. There was something about the intensity of the experience that made … Continue reading
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Tagged From Our Own Correspondent, frost, Sussex, travelling with my camera, Varanasi, weald
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Tiny Voices From A Beach at the Edge of the World
I am a big fan of low tech. There’s something about a level of technology that ensures that you sense the human hand that has contributed to the fashioning of a thing that is deeply pleasing. Perfection is somehow imperfect. … Continue reading
Luca Is Six
It’s slightly frightening the speed at which Luca’s birthday comes around. As they get older people remark endlessly about the changing way they percieve time. Experientially I’ve seen it suggested that if we live to 75 we’ve supposedly subjectively reached … Continue reading
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Tagged birthday birthday card, castles, customising IKEA, IKEA, Luca, meditation, Moppe, subjective experience of time
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