Humania

Saturday, August 21, 2010

This little chap is a guardian of the chapel at Exeter College When it comes to casting the film Rob Hand: Astrologer and Scholar , the firs...

On Winchelsea Beach, the mud is dark sable. Sometimes, you slither across the top of it. But sometimes your foot sinks right in, mud spurts ...

This is from an old copy of the defunct magazine Punch . I can never see the joke, but it does seem appropriate. We had dinner with an ente...

I've been looking at pictures of the Biblical floods in Pakistan, listening to the statistics - more people affected by this than by the...

Tonight is the New Moon at 17 Leo in "interesting" aspect the outer planets. Anyone with a birthday around now - that is between A...

This is one tiny bit of the magnificent Jantar Mantar or astronomical observatory in Jaipur built by Jai Singh II in the early 18th centur...

Home, Home on the Range, 2001 - 2007 © Howard Hodgkin, courtesy of Gagosian Gallery I went to see an exhibition of recent work by Howard Hod...

I've just come back from a week at the beach in Winchelsea, East Sussex. It's an uncanny kind of place with a wide tide. At high tid...

The Sun's gone into the sign of Leo now. It's full summer, the time of the Lion, as hot as it gets in the Northern hemisphere. Leo i...