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Food Insufficiency

November 12, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

I’m not sure why a trawler and a lighthouse on the horizon made me think of an allotment. But my mind drifted to sustainable food production while we were enjoying a sunrise walk along Dun Laoghaire pier this morning. The allotment in question was somewhere in Kent. I only remember it because of the conversation about North of England trophy fishing I had with a man who was planting potatoes in his well tended section. We talked about other things too. Unusual things like farming and wineries near Otago. And The Knowledge, the legendary taxi driver test in London.

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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: co2, hawkdun rise, james lovelock, julian baggini, london loop, matt ridley, new zealand, photos, sustainable food, travel, viking program, walking

No Wiser

November 11, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

If Bertrand Russell was right, my uncertainties make me wise. While I’m not sure that’d be true for me, I think I’d trade most of my insights for a degree of certainty. Of course, that’s hypothetical, I don’t have any certainty that I’d make that trade if ever such a time came.

No wiser, I wait in line to plunge to Las Vegas from the top of The Stratosphere © Simon Robinson 2008
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Filed Under: Anchoritism, Fake Memoir Tagged With: bertrand russell, hidden rivers, maggi hambling, mary astell, mary wollstonecraft, mary wollstonecraft shelley, movies, philip k dick, public art, samuel taylor coleridge, science fiction, travel, walking

Acer Leaves

November 10, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

Maple Painting

Today’s journal is about one thing. Or maybe thirty.

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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: garden, photography, photos, plants, samuel beckett

Movies and Papers

November 9, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

I think you should enjoy seeing Robert Fisk at work in ‘This Is Not A Movie’. I don’t know where you might see it but like today’s newspapers, it’ll probably be on a digital screen. We watched it on Amazon Prime so I know that’s one source.

Scarf Design: Reflecting Sunset from Westminster © Simon Robinson 20191109
FabHappy or of course simonscarves.
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Filed Under: Anchoritism, Fake Memoir Tagged With: fabhappy, movies, new york times, newspapers, robert fisk, simonscarves, the independent

Photo Essay

November 8, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

You can always find something to photograph. And I think you can generally make a few shots that other people will enjoy. I walked around a park for an hour with a 150-600 mm lens and these are some of the shots.

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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: photography, photos, walking

This Day Last Year

November 7, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

This is a panoramic shot of Kew Gardens taken while I was standing outside the Palm House which had just closed before we got there. Our own fault, we had arrived at Kew Gardens too late but a kind ticket collector took pity on us and let us in. As she advised, everything was closed. And all the people we encountered were walking towards the exit.

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Filed Under: Fake Memoir Tagged With: fabhappy, kew gardens, photography, simonscarves

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