Pattern Recognition

Where May Becomes June

2009-05-31T23:38:00.001+02:00

After a while
the blackbird fell silent

When she next looked up
from the laptop, what passed
for darkness in a northern summer
had settled behind a much stronger light
now from the slow-moving moon

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Shocking Poem

2009-05-24T13:42:00.006+02:00

my neighbour took his life
off facebook today: won't be final
till two weeks from now

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Seven for Lent

2009-03-09T18:49:00.000+01:00

Seven for Lent - List Poem

It's Lent so I'm not
buying books
or old movies,
not even jazz

It's Lent so I'm not
buying Dinner
with Anna Karenina
by Goldreich
Arabesque
with Gregory Peck
Kind of Blue
with Miles
That Botswana lady
detective novel

It's Lent so I'm not
buying Sentimental Journey
with Doris Day
or the latest poems
by Hirshfield

It's Lent so I'm not
buying Georgia O'Keeffe
and the Camera

It's Lent so I'm not.
I'm stacking them high
in my Amazon cart
ready for Easter Sunday :-)

Aisha

It's That Time Again

2009-02-12T20:01:00.003+01:00

Lent in 2009 will start on Wednesday, the 25th of February and will continue for 46 days until Saturday, the 11th of April.

NUNS, we need to do our work -- or rather, NOT do much at all: we are not doing any Unnecessary Needless Shopping- No UNS = NUNS!

You won't find us out on a spree-- we'll only be seen on Public Transport for cultural purposes-- museums, galleries, that's us :-)

For Ankush who may have a feed from here

2008-03-20T21:56:00.004+01:00

NUNS, I have sinned. And of course in Paris, that's traditional.

I bought luxury teas at Mariage Freres and a new book by Anna Gavalda.
(I don't count the books by William Gibson: he is after all the raison d'etre of my blog.)

Three more days, and we are out of the woods!

Lent Is Just Around The Corner! NUNS Unite!

2008-01-21T18:39:00.000+01:00

Lent begins on Wednesday 6 February 2008

When does Lent end? When is Lent over?

Lent lasts for 40 days and ends the day before Easter Sunday!

So you know what is coming: No Unnecessary Needless Shopping during Lent!

Oh no!

2007-10-20T14:00:00.000+02:00

Two months away and nothing to report.
Work work work.
Study study study (but that part is cool really).

And a pic of my flowers this weekend.

Wonder if anyone ever comes here any more.
Going now to look up my linked friends.

Four Months Later

2007-08-03T21:05:00.000+02:00

It's a good job Blogger doesn't fine you for not updating regularly.

I thought I would stick a bit in here about Second Life, since the author of Pattern Recognition, William Gibson, has a new book out and actually went virtual last night, reading from it and answering questions in Second Life. And it's all on You Tube!

He says in his blog that all he had to learn, really, was how to sit down in Second Life... the rest was easy.

A couple of my friends were there. I was detained in First Life, where I had to hand out laundry keys to real people.

National Poetry Month: A Haiga

2007-04-11T00:42:00.000+02:00

Lovers with tulip

2007-04-01T19:38:00.000+02:00

Spring reaches the D/S Louise couple too!

Some online friends mapped

2007-03-23T23:33:00.001+01:00

NUNS so far

2007-02-24T12:36:00.000+01:00

Good to read the comments on the NUNS post and see I have some backing -- !

So far I have been greatly aided by online purchases dropping into my mailbox still from earlier shopping sprees :)

We managed it before and we will again.
With a healthy underdraft to show for it...

Time for NUNS again!

2007-02-10T15:49:00.000+01:00

Lent begins on Wednesday 21 February 2007...

And -- Lent lasts for 40 days.

No Unnecessary Needless Shopping until Easter Sunday, 8 April.

I am ready for this! Too many DVDs from Amazon, too many books for the pile at the end of my bed...

Too many easy-to-buy-without trying-on tops.. . too many jeans...

(OK, too few ladylike skirts and trousers, but I even stocked up on that recently. I'm all right, Joan.)

Who wants to join me on this mission against over-consumption?

I am counting on my usual friends: You know who you are, and you are in my sidebar blog links.
Also hoping for new converts...

Down With Shopping !

An Internet cafe with real espresso!

2007-02-07T17:16:00.001+01:00

It can be done!

In Stavanger.

Room with a View

2007-01-23T23:50:00.000+01:00

Plogged in the London hotel room: 8th floor gave great view: quick sketch from window sill with water colour pencils. Gonna try wetting it later for a better effect.

London Story

2007-01-20T13:21:00.000+01:00

captured on the Piccadilly Line:

Home Sweet Home

2006-12-28T21:04:00.000+01:00

OK laugh!
All I have for my blog is my own bookcase-- and I gave myself a virtual logfire for Christmas - complete with crackling flaring sounds...

Planning a mid-week break

2006-12-28T19:23:00.000+01:00

-- in London-- and my friend Wingtips (see links) got me this, just in time to get the best treatment when I order tea and cucumber sandwiches:

My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is:
Imperial Majesty Aisha the Coherent of Hardy St Thomas
Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title

Bird and alder seeds

2006-12-17T15:53:00.000+01:00

Also on walk today-- Carduelis flammea flammea:

Frosty Walk

2006-12-17T15:13:00.000+01:00

My lake today:

Hearts on a December morning

2006-12-05T19:18:00.000+01:00

I pass this every morning on my way to work...

Heartening :)

November Roses

2006-11-10T22:26:00.000+01:00

Captured on my way today.

October Tree

2006-10-29T16:47:00.000+01:00

This photo is really for my friend Far From The Madding Crowd (see my blog links). He has a worthy :) tree poem on his blog right now

Taken this afternoon through my flat window.
It is a maple or sycamore of sorts.

Old Man in Rain

2006-10-22T19:26:00.000+02:00

Autumn has come!
Let's celebrate! Oops, I dated it November...should be 20th October.

...November doesn't have any colors in the cold rain.

Rye Road Waiting

2006-10-05T02:38:00.000+02:00

Three weeks have passed since I proclaimed the arrival of autumn: far too precipitate.

Rye Road Warming

We are waiting for trees
to turn golden, we are waiting
for days to cool us down: It's October
and too warm still.

That greenhouse effect
must have swallowed
the hype: "Think globally,
act locally."

Rye Road is waiting.