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Month: November 2013

Dreams of iron and steel

Who saw this one coming? Bob Dylan as a welder of gates? The Halcyon Gallery in Bond Street is currently hosting Mood Swings, an exhibition of ornamental gates and associated metalwork crafted by a man, who when he isn’t composing, recording, touring, writing, broadcasting or indeed painting, clearly likes to go a junkyard, pick upRead More

Luke McKernan November 20, 2013August 29, 2015Leave a comment

Anand v Carlsen

The World Chess Championship has started, and I am glued to my screen. Along with millions of others, I am able to follow the contest between India’s Vishy Anand (the current world champion) and Norway’s Magnus Carlsen through a bewildering variety of options, as the internet connects up all of us across the globe toRead More

Luke McKernan November 10, 2013August 8, 2015Leave a comment

Taxi!

Here’s a curious anecdote. I live in a town rich in brick walls of every age and description. I like photographing them (I wrote a post about this a while ago). I put several of these photographs on my Flickr site, should anyone want to look at photographs of brick walls for themselves. Time movedRead More

Luke McKernan November 3, 2013September 22, 2019Leave a comment

I remember # 7

189. I remember delighting in the name of the cricketer Brian Brain 190. I remember Brand X 191. I remember my first football 192. I remember turning off the sound on the television when Vision On was broadcast to impress upon my younger brothers what it was like for the deaf 193. I remember Jackdaws,Read More

Luke McKernan November 1, 2013October 11, 2015Leave a comment

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