The year is barely two weeks old and already the news feed is grisly. Whether you're looking at matters domestic or globally it's pretty much armageddon meets mutually assured destruction. And 99.9% of the blame for this collapse in humanity can be laid squarely at the door of one man. However, I'm not going to give him the oxygen of publicity on here as this year I'm going to be too busy talking about trees and trains, maps and stamps, art and artists, music and musicians, family and friends, knobs and knockers, pubs and clubs, beer and sandwiches, pie and peas, coffee and cake, blogs and bloggers, geography and psychogeography, buildings and building blocks, phone boxes and post boxes, gigs and digs. And a whole lot else besides. Like caffs. And launderettes. And, of course, photography. Always photography. Photographs of anthing and everything; anybody and everybody, Speaking of which, I'd love to do a Photo Challenge throw out where we all take a photograph of someone we know really well. Or not at all. Asking a complete stranger if you can take their photograph is something I know some of you wouldn't be comfortable within, but I think it's got legs. Maybe a totally optional PC we slide in between the months. We'll see.
A quote from the late great Linda Smith comes to mind: 'I don't want to give him the oxygen of publicity. I'm not that happy with him having the oxygen of oxygen actually'.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the list of lovely distractions, I am so worried, so worried about the world, the greed, the hate, the madness, so worried about Greenland.... etc., etc. it just feels overwhelming at times and have to be really strong. Trees, trains, maps, stamps and all the rest you say are what we need more of. Add to that worms, birds and old fashioned words, tea and toast and trips to the coast... I think we could go on for some time!
ReplyDeleteLove the photo. Great idea for the theme too, a bit shy about the stranger thing but certainly photos of anyone lovely would help to offset the cnts.