random acts of senseless beauty

I’ve been here for 7 days then. Confusions with the new camera and the new laptop has slowed down my ability to upload photos and I wanted to wait till I had something to show yous I guess…
So much has been packed into a week. More than ever on this trip I [...]

Bat tower

Originally uploaded by Jude Adam.

Although I was surprised to see that the Bat Tower is now re-labelled for at&t (rival phone company), all else is wonderfully familiar.
I’m back in Nashville for two weeks… and I already feel better.

Late last year on the Saturday morning show, Adam played the audio of this classic clip from Woody Allen’s Manhattan. If you haven’t seen it, Woody’s character, in a massive effort to be optimistic, lists the things that make life worth living… including Groucho Marx, Louis Armstong’s Potato Head Blues and ‘Tracy’s Face’.Listening [...]

Wonderful Mart has sold me his old/my new camera. He wonderfully delivered it to me at work, so I had to play with it at my desk.
The very first pics I took (in reception!) wouldn’t transfer into iPhoto for some reason, and I haven’t entirely figured out the EOS ImageBrowser yet [...]

There’s a crazy world where people know my name.
I refuse to use the word famous as it 1) sounds really big-headed and 2) it isn’t true. For a start famous is several levels above the strange niche market where people squint, wrinkle their noses for a second and then say “oh… that one [...]

Before I forget, I’ve added a couple of links to the list of blogs. I have been wowed and wooed by some new writing recently over at the wow and flutter of Ahnalog, and at the house of Mrs Metaphor. Go and check them out. I have to be friends with [...]

Home
After 31 years and 1 month my parents moved out of our family home. It’s a move that’s been coming for a while, but that didn’t make the final goodbye any less of a wrench.
There are so many happy memories tied up in those brinks and mortar and although, as I was reminded, [...]

Central Stairs. Fortnum & Mason. December 2007.
I stop and peer over:  The shapes, the light and the amazing tree at the bottom are beautiful, but to get to the final sweeping stairs you have to exit the room and come in again on a different level.
I turn my back on last year [...]