My Lonely War
…against the forces of minimalism. Not yer art-world minimalism, or even (so much) your high-end design minimalism, but corporate minimalism, middlebrow minimalism, 80s-hangover “MORE WHITE SPACE PLEASE!” Neville Brody[…]

blinded by the little picture: more tumbles the market’s year, nice and wriggly the market’s day smoothed out (close of day 19 Oct = wheeee!)[…]

WATCH WITH MOTHER: Rolf on Art (Turner)
mark s: the best part is his undisguised delight at his own gift rolf (sitting back to look at tricky little bit of own handiwork): marvellous, look at that! mum s: *chuckles* mark s cuts viewing appointment s[…]

SUCCESS!!!!
Finally Team Albatross, made up of some people from this parish (me and Ben plus others) finally won a pub quiz. The downside: it was not in our normal pub.
The Harringey Arms is a nice pub. It has a really good pub quiz. But after six mo[…]

Sunday Evening Television – Midsummer Murders
MM is now so synonymous with Sunday evenings it’s difficult to say which came first. It’s set in a part of England bereft of the dangers of multi-culturalism, where odd people are rechri[…]