Landscapism

Most of this piece was written in 2017 (probably after another soul-destroying election result) but left in draft and I just came across it ...

Hotfoot from viewing new documentary film  Arcadia , some initial thoughts on what seems quite a zeitgeist-y piece of work for those in t...

"The power had been completely placed in the hands of the Norman nobility ... and it had been used with no moderate hand." ...

I've recently watched A Skin Too Few: The Days of Nick Drake , Jeroen Berkvens' 2002 documentary that I came across via the Dange...

" There is something about walking which stimulates and enlivens my thoughts.  ... my body has to be on the move to set my mind goin...

Penda's Fen directed by Alan Clarke and written by David Rudkin (1974).

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Music, like landscape, is an endless treasury, with new discoveries patiently awaiting happenstance. One of the blogs that I most look f...

"Elected Silence, sing to me And beat upon my whorled ear Pipe me to pastures still and be The music that I care to hear." ...