| This (jerkily) spinning can is the work of Philip Holmes Esquire, ingenious graphic designer and inventor of visual puns. I could never have thought up anything so clever. (Apologies to the Dr Pepper people!) |  |
| And this is a mug shot of me. When my friends saw it they set up a Fund on my behalf, out of which they were eventually able to present me with a comb. My current appearance is therefore somewhat less dishevelled. |  |
| (That was taken years ago. Here’s me today:) |  |
About me
Well, I daren't break the code of English reserve by saying too much.Likes: peace and quiet, worm-eaten books, perpendicular Gothic, keyboard music, Lucca, deciduous trees, Victorian terraced housing, Japanese prints, poetry, and black-letter type.
Dislikes: bright sunshine, disposable drink cans (like the one spinning above), chewing gum (especially when spat onto pavements), malls, musak, unstitched paperbacks, cars, graffiti, mobile phones, intransitive use of the verb ‘to lay’ and misquotations.
Reasons for complacency: Winning the 2000 Tony Kent Strix award. In 1998 it went to Stephen Robertson, in 1999 to Donna Harman, and in 2001 to Peter Willett. And so on. I need hardly say that I am in the most august company here.
Favourite web page: Is probably Cathy Decker's British Women's Novels, which has influenced my reading a lot over the past few years.
The back garden: A very important place. To see a nice painting of the view into the conservatory from the garden patio, all you have to do (all!) is go to the web site of Frau Inga Dünkelberg-Niemann at www.inga.cx, go Weiter zur Galerie, then choose Stadt-Landschaften, and then England, and click on Die Teekanne (Ruths Garten).
| (But this gets more complicated every time I try it, so I'm copying the image here:) |  |
An oil version of this picture now hangs on the dining room wall which is behind the dark inner window you can see in the centre of the image.
Other things
Snowball
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misquoting burke
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sudoku solver
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walks round Norwich
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my family
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Rosemary Group 10th anniversary
readings of some poems
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leasehold extension formula
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and a concordance
for the Authorised Version of the bible. Say goodbye to Cruden.
Contact?
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