- RHUBARB HO appeared to be the name of a fancy new "home" shop I spotted on my recent theatre trip, due to the unfortunate placement of street furniture partially obscuring their shiny sign. I can't decide if RHUBARB HO means "rhubarb ahoy!" or implies very specialised personal services?

- Stage: my Shakespeare Revue review! This is an updated ( Read more... )

- Reading, books 2016, 96.

( The Real Thing, by Tom Stoppard )

- Emmet at work directing traffic to keep left.


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- Village women reading, with Mustafa Güzelgöz and his mobile library, Turkey, 1940s-60s.


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- Conservatism in action: I thought Swine Minister David Hameron only had his snout in the trough but, nope, apparently he's gone the whole hog: not only pigheaded bestiality but also simultaneous necrophilia. #piggate #snoutrage P.S. One of the Bullingdon Club's "initiation" rituals involves burning a £50 note in front of a homeless person. That ( Read more... )

- Thinking about class-based worldviews and how invisible they are to those they "serve". For example, in a conversation elsewhere about Kipling (the person not the the verb ;-P ), I mentioned the "conservative" (with a small-c) belief that it was every man’s duty [/Nelson] to feel obliged to die in trench warfare and my interlocutor then referred ( Read more... )

- Watching, art: Crucible 2 sculpture exhibition at Gloucester Cathedral. Vesqua, by William Pye, is another of his very popular sculptures involving moving water. It’s large, positioned near the centre of the south transept, and is constantly surrounded by people who like to dangle their fingers in the water (which also makes it difficult to ( Read more... )

Henry Tonks was a surgeon and artist, and he used both sets of experience as a medical artist during the First World War when he recorded images of wounded, and particularly disfigured, soldiers both before and after treatment. His work provided a significant contribution to the advancement of plastic surgery and especially facial reconstruction. ( Read more... )

The Now Show made a joke about BBC News asking viewers to send in their photos of breaking news stories... so a friend and I decided to see what we could do to oblige. Luckily, my friend also listens to the Now Show and, more importantly, has a car. Tally Ho, Malvern Job Centre, origin of leaked documents showing that government ministers appear to ( Read more... )

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