Archive for July, 2007

It’s in the rugs

Friday, July 20th, 2007

Just a few curiosities from the web: The endemic violence in war-benighted Afghanistan is reflected in these unusual Afghan War Rugs which feature AK47s, tanks and attack helicopters etc. Look under images to see these unsettling, yet beautiful rugs.
The clever Tilted Room sketch from Australia seems to be an internet phenomenon that I’ve not heard [...]

Unwound

Tuesday, July 17th, 2007

Gaucho has been off unwinding in Cornwall with his girlfriend and a bunch of mates. He’s so relaxed that he’s talking about himself in the third person. It was part break, part extended cream tea eating marathon. Oh those cream teas. Sheer cliffs of buttery goodness, solid cakes of stodge with a sugary goo that [...]

To Canterbury we wende III

Friday, July 6th, 2007

From Goudhurst the topography seemed to get gentler, less sheer and more rolling. Even better we had our first break for ages at Tenterden school car park. By now I was beginning to get sick of all these sweet energy foods, remarkable for someone with a tooth as sweet as mine. It was about now [...]

To Canterbury we wende II

Thursday, July 5th, 2007

It was somewhere in the badlands of Tonbridge and Tunbridge Wells that the we met the convoy of classic mopeds heading in the other direction, only to be overtaken by a collection of 1960’s Fords. I peered at the mods and they looked blankly back: road-based sub-cultures passed silently by.
At last, a duel carriageway and [...]