Monday, 2 July 2012

those crazy eccentric British is all an act!

read whitstaple mum in custard shortage  and other world exclusives  from Britain's finest local newspapers  an attempt to be funny with headlines like  cat stuck on roof, two dogs collide on pavement -dog hurts nose, church window nearly smashed    snow on roof for third day an update  however the news papers were local to the authors area  rarely going up north and the Argus (brighton and Hove ) hogged these headlines (14articles  in total)   a slim volume it was padded out by having both the  newspaper headline and article in full from clipping  and  on the facing  page  a  duplicated word for word transcript of the article content

understanding italian renaissance art   another thames and hudson book  with  some fine painting based around themes  ie colour, devotion. atmosphere  and fashion

romantic moderns  english writers artists and the imagination from  virginia woolf to john piper  by Alexandra Harris  a study of inter war  writers   with  some famous now others famous then  showing their development form rural isolation and village inspired lyrics to writing sponsored rural travel guides and  painting for advertising commissions 


London by peter ackroyd
  a concise classic of a book  with  incredible detail on  london as lived  from saxon times to late victorian along the   themes of sewers, parish poor and  parish  watch   hanged, haunted   and fogged over   excellent guide  to London as it was   all gone now  wonderful to read about

 read well and some poetry notes but  had number of work meetings and despite great success in past   lack of  future funding  in my area of expertise   there is an irony there somewhere 



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