A sunday in Blackpool

When I got out of the plane at John Lennon Airport, the first thing I saw was the semi-industrial landscape, and the fading november light flowing over trees and chemicals alike. The second thing I saw once I had reached the ground below was the orange girl standing helpfully and still to convey all passengers in the right direction. On the way back, I had a whopper and cheese menu. Things work both way.

culture and concensus

Systematically writing about the same stuff over and over, I find myself checking online exact book references, only to bump into my own online bibliographies! Surely that's a step forward (somehow)!

Newcastle Boer monument

Obviously no one gives a damn anymore in Newcastle about once mythic now slightly unpolitically correct colonial wars, such as the Boer one where the troops of her majesty fought to many a death not such a long time ago. Well, in a long line of appalling urban design move, none withstanding the fact that apparently the top of the monument had to be replaced and is now made of plastic (or something), there is this new unveiled metro entrance structure, smashing!

Distinction

According to my insider's information, Newcastle University is showing its muscles out there in the tough world of academic competition.

to get in the frame!

Manchester

Robinho can take the money but can't take the weather!

Modern art in hotels

This sould probably be a sub-theme: modern art in hotels around the world. here in Dublin, the Lisson.