Helicopter movie

When I took a short walk yesterday I came across a helicopter practising taking water up from a lake and dropping it again as it’ll have to do when it fights forest fires.
I gathered the photos together in iphoto, made them into a slideshow, added some music by Max Richter and exported it as a [...]

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Come take a walk with me in Provence

Come take a walk with me up the path towards Mont Sainte Victoire. Let’s start down here by the dam…

and we’ll take this path…

The first surprise was seeing a helicopter collecting water from the lake

and practising dropping it again

On the way to the top I stumbled across these strange tree roots….

…and these tiny, tiny [...]

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Notre Dame Paris

I’ve walked around the outside of Notre Dame countless times in my visits to Paris. Today, the queue was non-existent so I had my first look inside. Goodness, it’s an incredible building inside as well as outside. I specifically wanted to see what the great rose windows looked like from the inside. Before I show [...]

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Snowdrops

February is especially snowdrop month. In fact one of the common names for the snowdrop is “Fair maids of February“. They are beautiful and it’s lovely to see them come through the cold, winter earth. The ones above are not far from where I live. I wandered amongst them taking some photos today. Here are [...]

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The Night Train to Lisbon

I read a lot of non-fiction. Something to do with my being insatiably curious. I often post about the non-fiction books I read, both as reviews which you might like to read, and to share what I learned or what thoughts they provoked for me. But what about fiction? I’ve decided I don’t read nearly [...]

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Three knots

As I was opening a gate to get into a field where I’d seen some standing stones, these bright colours caught my eye. Someone had tied these threads onto the gatepost. I think it’s a “friendship bracelet” and I’ve really no idea why it ended up here instead of around somebody’s wrist. Maybe it fell [...]

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Essence of Glasgow

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Reinventing the sacred

That reductionism is limited, however, does not mean it is not powerful, amazingly productive, and tremendously useful scientifically. We simply need to understand its place, and recognise that we live in a very different universe from that painted by reductionism alone.
So writes Stuart Kauffman in “Reinventing the Sacred” (ISBN 978-0-465-00300-6). I agree with that. As [...]

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The colour of sunday morning

This morning the sky turned an unusual, lovely, almost lilac colour. Pleasing. Very pleasing.

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Myths which improve life

People often use the word myth as if it is the opposite of the word truth. It’s juxtaposed to reality. You hear that a lot. An explanation about something is dismissed as a myth, meaning that it’s not true, not a fact, that’s it’s unreal. It’s quite strange how we’ve developed this way of using [...]

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