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Wintry Summers
After yesterday’s seasonal sartorial fiasco, there was no chance of me getting caught out freezing this morning when I glimpsed the overcast morning grey. I didn’t have to dig too deep to find a woollen dress and tights, since naturally … Continue reading
The Modern Era of Train Travel
I’ve not blogged for weeks about the trivia of my daily life because I’ve had A Serious Matter to deal with: ridding my psyche of all-or-nothingness. All-or-nothingness manifests itself in many things I do, and I concluded recently that it … Continue reading
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Tagged East Coast trains, journeys, trains, travel
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Springtime
It’s a while since I posted here. I’ve actually been blogging and posting almost incessantly these last three weeks, but just not here. (I went on a trip to the Muddle East with a small mixed group of local Leeds … Continue reading
The Art of Delivery
Getting somewhere as an artist is not an easy matter, but there are some eternal truths guiding the paths to success, one of which is Win Prizes and Enter Big Shows. This is sound advice, and assuming the artist is … Continue reading
#trinityleeds Part II
Given my obsessions with the urban environment, consumer culture and the wonderful everyday, there was no way I was going to miss first day at Trinity Leeds, the Biggest Shopping Centre Opening in Western Europe This Year, Creator of 3,000 … Continue reading
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Tagged Leeds, retail, shopping, trinity leeds, urban environment
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Trinity Leeds
I haven’t seen anything quite like it for a while. Well, not in this area. Yellow jackets and safety helmets buzzing like a swarm of busy bees. Every week whenever I’m catching the early morning train to London these past … Continue reading
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Tagged Leeds, retail outlet, shopping, urban environment
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Bad British Architecture
After laughing myself silly last week with the Tim Moore book, I remembered I’d picked up from the library recently another gem, A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain by Owen Hatherley. I found it lurking under a … Continue reading
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Tagged architecture, dérive, design, psychogeography, urban environment
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You Are Awful (but I like you)
Some things are just too good not to share, and Tim Moore’s You Are Awful (But I Like You) is one of them. For my international readership, the title quotes a catch-phrase of a cross-dressed character in a popular 70s … Continue reading
A Few Minutes’ Worth of “Customer Service”
Some days it just all gets a bit much. As with all email exchanges, you need to start at the bottom and work your way up through the thread. I can heartily recommend emotional outpouring by email after a call-centre … Continue reading
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Flood Tide: 31 January 1953
I wasn’t even alive, but the story of the horrendous North Sea storm tide on the night of 31January 1953 loomed strangely large as a story in my childhood. The flood waters which surged out from the North Sea sixty … Continue reading
