‘I am not enjoying myself very much.’ Winston Churchill, Cromer, 1885
Category Archives: Geography
Duhn
After we had finished our coffee, I retired to the edge of my bed and attended to what little toilet I could while the beduin squatted in the smoke of the fire. Sa’id II sprawled in a corner, playing with his cartridge belt, loose over … Read More →
Happiness
When the evening came, and the sweet shrill cry of the kites, that fills the daylight, stopped, ‘Awiz appeared with three paraffin lanterns, which he dotted about the floor in various places, and, having given me my supper, departed to his home. The compound with … Read More →
Camel’s eye view
The camel is an ugly animal, but, like some plain women, has lovely eyes, brown and soft with long lashes–often the only gentle things to look at in its sun-hardened world : but this one beauty is little noticed, for–though the adored is often compared … Read More →
Country Life
Every day trivial bits of local gossip increased her disgust and lowered her opinion of mankind. The Couillards’ daughter had just had a child and was going to be married shortly ; the Martins’ maid, an orphan, was pregnant, so was a neighbour’s daughter of … Read More →
Cimitière
We shall not cease from exploration And at the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. TS Eliot Four Quartets Pictures taken in and around Le Mas d’Azil, Arriège region of France, … Read More →
Stairway to Heaven
Aoyama Cemetery, Tokyo, March 2013