Rook's Nest
Random ramblings from the cluttered brain of a Brit ex-pat North Devonian trying to keep cool in the steamy summers and warm in the frosty winters of The Great White North.
Monday 8 July 2024
Summer skies
Happy Summer! I haven't been blog-posting for a while..... lack of inspiration along with being basically lazy..... but I'm still reading your blog posts and leaving comments. I'll find any replies by checking in here. (Edit: this is not a photo of where I live now, it is a photo of where I USED to live.)
Saturday 3 February 2024
Walking Through the Fire
Walking Through the Fire.... in collaboration with Sultans of String and the Cathedral Bluffs Symphony Orchestra. What a great concert yesterday.... loved every minute of it.
A very unusual and effective combination of a 50 piece symphony orchestra, the Sultans' lively international music, and the music of the First Nations people of this country.
Monday 1 January 2024
2023 Books
The list of books read during 2023.... as usual Canadian authors shown in RED, British authors in BLUE, American authors in GREEN.
Monday 20 November 2023
Breugel-Boche Bus 2
Some details of the Breugel-Boche bus....
There's a video about this marvellous bus, please have a look ----
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQdOu0kqswE
Saturday 18 November 2023
Breugel-Boche Bus
The Bruegel-Boche Bus.... an amazing mindboggling piece of art displayed in it's own room at the Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario. The artist started with an old 1960 VW bus, just like the one I had many years ago, and started elaborating on it. He started in 1996 and the construction is still continuing.
It's a marveroolus (love that new word, I just made it up by accident) piece of imagination. The bus appears to pull a post-industrial universe displaying a cornucopia of fantastic and seductive worlds, and I wonder if it will ever be finished!
Thursday 16 November 2023
The Big Bad City
I hardly ever get to go to big bad Downtown Toronto any more, and I certainly NEVER drive there. I can take a bus or train very cheaply and with far less mental stress. But it's good to have a wander around the city once in a while.... so that's what I did when I went to see SIX - The Musical. Too bad it was such a grey day.
Tuesday 14 November 2023
SIX
SIX... The Musical. You would think that it would be difficult task to compose a musical entertainment about King Henry VIII's six wives. After all, it was a sad story for most of them. Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived. It was a short musical as musicals go.... only 80 minutes with no intermission... but the six wives sang and danced and were absolutely marvellous and full of delicious energy for the whole show. I loved it!