Monday 14 June 2010

And some honey to go with that ...


My favourite hive under the plum tree, busy, busy, busy...

Calorific content

When your girl turns up with a plate of witty cakes, made by her own fair hand, there's got to be a poem to accompany it...




i wanted one life








you wanted another





we couldn't have our cake


so we ate each other



Roger McGough

Have some cake ...

Friday 11 June 2010

Satire is the only legitimate form of regional art


So said Walter Walter Benjamin about Karl Kraus so I hope he'll forgive me for placing his text next to the toilet in my bathroom. After all, he quotes Adolf Loos as saying:
'If human work consists only of destruction, it is truly human, natural, noble work.'


The point of it all

What is the point of going on holiday?
I'll still be here when I get back