something of the chameleon

April  by John Clare (1793-1864) The infant april joins the spring And views its watery skye As youngling linnet trys its wing And fears at ...

     “The one who entirely devotes himself to the Zeitgeist is a poor wretch. The seek of innovation of the everlasting avant-garde has some...

 St Patrick      Yesterday news reached 'X', Twitter as was, of a proposed new development for Oxford city centre - a place, I thin...

      To the Grand Theater last night and an evening of early Laurel and Hardy films (i.e. before the introduction of sound) with the melodi...

      Perhaps one or twice a year I have had enough.  I concede defeat.  A novel is put aside unfinished.  It is a sort of failure, there i...

March by John Clare (1793-1864) March month of 'many weathers' wildly comes In hail and snow and rain and threatning hums And floods...

       Have sort of finished this, the façade of the Sardinian Romanesque church of San Pietro della Immagini - St Peter of the Images.  The...