I took Foro on a jaunt last weekend to see some friends, perching him in one of the little side windows of my Honda Jazz. We watched the cows out in the pastures as we drove through small villages and towns where, it seems, there's a lot of cheese being made. I often don't enjoy... Continue Reading →
Rabbit
It's hard to know where you are in the general flow of the world sometimes. There are days that just go easily, and others, like today, where I'm brought up short and I don't know why. I don't know whether I've brought this upon myself. There wasn't much going wrong, but things didn't flow. For... Continue Reading →
Salve
Now I would have thought that the English word "salve" was tied directly back to Latin but it appears to have had a few stops along the way. etymonline.com gives the origin as "medicinal ointment or adhesive preparation for external use on wounds and sores," from the Old English sealf "healing ointment," from West Germanic *salbo- "oily substance". So... Continue Reading →
The Fall
I have an acquaintance, a guy from my secondary school, who was a super fan of the group The Fall. I've never been able to get into them, to be honest. It's a group like Pere Ubu, with a hardcore following of fans for music that never made the main stream. However if you didn't... Continue Reading →
Moove your cow, and your mind will follow. 