Monthly Archives: March 2012

Windscreen Cinema

Posted on 24/03/2012 by Bobby Seal

I discovered the idea of windscreen cinema on a drive from Los Angeles to Las Vegas last summer.  I sat in the front passenger seat all the way and became fascinated by how the landscape moved and changed before me, … Continue reading →

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Book of the Month – April 2012 – Gillian Tindall: The Fields Beneath

Posted on 21/03/2012 by Bobby Seal

I found my copy of Gillian Tindall’s The Fields Beneath in a second-hand bookshop in Wigtown, Dumfries and Galloway one August afternoon last year.  Strange to be buying a London book on a visit to Scotland, but I felt pathetically … Continue reading →

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Pretending the Weather

Posted on 20/03/2012 by Bobby Seal

  Liz Lefroy is a poet.  She writes about family, faith and loss.  She writes to celebrate the sheer joy of words.  Her first collection of poems is called Pretending the Weather and the two poems that follow are from … Continue reading →

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What If?

Posted on 10/03/2012 by Bobby Seal

A picture taken in Kirkcudbright.  It had been raining most of the day, but stopped just before I spotted this at the end of a little alleyway we had wandered along. So what if the Hokey Cokey really is what … Continue reading →

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Deva Dérive

Posted on 06/03/2012 by Bobby Seal

Deva Victrix: outpost of the Roman Empire, bulwark against the raiding Brigantes and garrison home of the Legio XX Valeria Victrix.  Nowadays known as Chester. A day out in Chester offers the opportunity to explore the city: to walk its … Continue reading →

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