Pubs are closing everywhere and at an astonishing rate. Their signs are going down and for sale signs going up all over the place. I was passing this pub near Mosborough and took a photo of the sign. I wonder where they all go? There is I assume a collector somewhere with a warehouse full …
Author archives: pasdelasbas
morton hall
A day in someone else’s life: 07.30: rise, dress, breakfast, settle arguing children
compassion?
I have a friend who told me about her long term interest in violence, something stoked by a young man who brought those ideas more than somewhat to life. She proclaims an understanding of the violent, the obscene, the killer, the paedophile and wonders if that makes her bad? Is she in need of help? …
brother, where art thou from?
Everywhere – if I go downtown – I am referred to as ‘brother’. I am tempted to use it in response – if you call me brother I’ll call you the same.
amazing cave
This shop has opened up in an old building which backs onto the Don. The owners are living above the shop with two balconies facing out over the river. I’ve been driving past often and never had the opportunity to stop and look inside, the spot is well of the beaten track tucked in a …
practising structure
My daughter E is doing something for the first time and showing me. She explains that this is the way she usually does it. She has no way of doing it though, she is just doing it. I ask her if that is the case, does she have a way to do it or is …
day dreaming
humans around a fire and a human from the future arrives they capture and kill the visitor later, become the visitor, they kill themselves throwing them on the flames is what i day dreamed
wood blewits
I’ve captured some wood blewits freed from the earth. The year ended here but I’ve yet to finish with them. The issue is not one of faith but how to avoid it. Temptation is heaven born, all the more delightful for that. So, eyes open till the end, violet like leaves on the forest …
ruskin the cataloguer
I went on a tour of the Ruskin Gallery and stores with Louise Pullen curator and archivist of the Ruskin Collection.
contest and context
A conversation with J: Me: I’ve taken the lead on a campaign to negotiate with the Council to keep our local Park House open and in community use. J: That’s so good, to be involved in some form of activism. Me: Activism today is different to the past. There was a time that the activist …