– photographs and messages from inside the Sausurrean Bar –

Blog archives for August, 2011


Archive for August, 2011

Tuesday, August 16th, 2011

The Unexpected Visitor

You sit there doing your thing, and when you turn and look out of the window a cruise ship has appeared. (A photo taken with my phone since my camera was at home and no-one expects the Spanish Inquisition a cruise ship to just pop up!)

Tuesday, August 16th, 2011

Sunwave and stone

Sunday, August 14th, 2011

a excursão de bicicleta

 

Wednesday, August 10th, 2011

(Im)patience

Tuesday, August 9th, 2011

The Houses of Sunset

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Tuesday, August 9th, 2011

Ghosts walk with me

Ghosts walk with me
Ghosts of choices denied
And choices made
The wind stirs in the holly tree
Not only Saints walk tonight
But figments, fragments,
Frailty,
The ghosts of things I tried – to hide?
Of things too long denied

The ghosts of all
I did not want
They sadden me
They frighten me
The wind that blows
Was never free,
Ghosts walk with me
Tonight.

Sunday, August 7th, 2011

Un fois de plus: la tour Eiffel

Nope, we’re not quite done with la Tour yet – but I’ll spare you the obligatory silly photos where people pretend to be holding the tower up or to push it over or … and yes, I did buy one of those shiny little Eiffel Towers. Eiffel Towers and outstanding pastries and overpriced below average food eaten in locations with advantageous views. And églises and bridges and le Métro and boulevards and tourists and beaches on streets and … that’s (my experience of) Paris.

Other than that, I’m writing and reading, excited about the books my students are picking for their projects (and hoping they are having a good time reading) and why is there no summer? Also, yes, behind with emails. Tomorrow. Also, tomorrow I’m going to the local government office to get a certificate of good conduct. (Yes, yes, also more prosaically a Police Clearance Certificate, but the certificate of good conduct sounds much more mysterious and bizarre, no? I mean, what did I conduct well? I’m no conductor!).

Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011

 

Windmill Hill

I took this photo from the train back from Paris, going at about 250km/h, with Maximum optical zoom on a distant hill – the graininess in the photo is from the dirt on the carriage window. I’ve increased the contrast at the computer, but that’s pretty much all I’ve done to the photo. It’s a totally random lucky shot, and I must admit I really quite like it, in all its strangeness.

Monday, August 1st, 2011

L’après-midi, Place de la Concorde, Paris

Monday, August 1st, 2011

And then there were Eiffel towers … .