tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50802923594998366532024-03-23T01:36:36.487-07:00William BainP o e m sWilliam Bainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09161231448966037536noreply@blogger.comBlogger316125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5080292359499836653.post-73712213746753907312024-03-22T03:37:00.000-07:002024-03-22T03:38:02.686-07:00poem spring '24<p> </p><p> </p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
poem spring ‘24</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">on the kitchen counter</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">a blue plastic water
bottle</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">nudged by a tangerine</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">difficult to fight
against it all</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">what with a dan de lion</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">leafing green
blossoming yellow</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">downstairs in a crack
in the concrete</p>
<p> </p>William Bainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09161231448966037536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5080292359499836653.post-61448786348545383072024-02-25T11:01:00.000-08:002024-02-25T11:02:56.252-08:00Another way?<p> </p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Another way in might be this dream?</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"> </p><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">A group of friends
wanted to kill a moth.</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">What was the point? No
matter.
</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">They asked me to kill
it.</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">I shied away from the
furry</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">body, the fluttering
wings</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">touching my face. No,</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">I awoke.</p>
<p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br />
</p>
William Bainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09161231448966037536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5080292359499836653.post-56654605171933119182024-02-21T10:04:00.000-08:002024-02-21T10:04:36.236-08:00Ivy in winter<p>The photo goes back a ways, to 2019.... Beautiful colors, no?</p><p> </p><p> <img class="CSS_LIGHTBOX_SCALED_IMAGE_IMG" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-qbYaJybjBf7Me9wxFDgjBmcupfQ28t9-s0mM3U37RdVkSL8hG5qLntQHXgXXcospBYiTT5NBNr3aOtS4hHgocakQjXWeoHWHZidsuKiUgPSwf1PTHnVkdYbWZbS_qOGLJ_-sexT59KoN/s1600/P1110913.JPG" style="height: 571px; width: 761px;" /></p><p> </p><p> </p>William Bainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09161231448966037536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5080292359499836653.post-14436069624977730392023-12-11T09:27:00.000-08:002023-12-11T09:27:56.920-08:00Woodland walks<p> A warm summer day a few years back the Sant Nicolau River in Auguëstortes National Park - ready to cool off? <br /></p><p><br /></p><p><img class="CSS_LIGHTBOX_SCALED_IMAGE_IMG" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPap-RDs8z2YdCLy6_G76-dlpu165YGAJ7RZGGrsO3-ntoteOfhD-ESpKZ0gXQTkuhQXVnzJnuaT_nOD7InlJ1kpSSSc0Tg-k2ngIBXL07jVI95x50rzp0QFyON59DpFymwRTtSp4MOL1-/s2048/P7310654.JPG" style="height: 560px; width: 747px;" /></p>William Bainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09161231448966037536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5080292359499836653.post-74499485091924345572023-11-05T03:50:00.000-08:002023-11-05T03:51:33.802-08:00Cumulus<p> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 342.0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Or stratocumulus I can’t …</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 342.0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">White and gray in a bright blue sky</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 342.0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 342.0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Autumnal yellows toned oranges</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 342.0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Move your gaze back up</span></p>
William Bainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09161231448966037536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5080292359499836653.post-79849673105733980412023-09-07T23:34:00.000-07:002023-09-07T23:35:42.009-07:00Life's renewals<p> From a photo taken some years ago in Viladrau<br /></p><p> <img class="CSS_LIGHTBOX_SCALED_IMAGE_IMG" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTF-qOlNJJW5EA_sK8m665x6hJ9t2P7lnAiT5DNScttE_ji97syar8LCCptedscYGWqw93viwyBPepCbAY77N041ASTRkIMQCfLM9TKaGXQUMfFH0OBNukFoCaLjoOLaZK7HnYTqb56HuG/s1600/DSC08816.JPG" style="height: 571px; width: 856px;" /></p>William Bainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09161231448966037536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5080292359499836653.post-1033221522318140482023-08-21T02:08:00.000-07:002023-08-21T02:08:28.899-07:00Buncrana revisited<p> <span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">This photo is from a morning trip we took to Buncrana, Ireland
on August 9 2019. Some of the landscape we saw on our walk along the river path.
Buncrana is in Donegal, on the Inishowen peninsula. The high temperatures in and around Barcelona today make me yearn not only for the the views but also, obviously, for cooler weather. </span></p><p><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The water is Lough
Swilly, the town 23
kilometers northwest of Derry,
43 kilometers
north of Letterkenny. Hopefully we'll get back there again soon. And with temperaztures down worldwide.</span></p><p><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></p><p><img class="CSS_LIGHTBOX_SCALED_IMAGE_IMG" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlGKIXLyuFTSai9J8cqInilyGxb44O7YLFztg1SRTTkvFoTJC7N_MfxgqJUt11fvhNt4Rfoj7tSjvH8qb7XbR5mv4H9_aA3ZZNdhXVsviQTdv66CAqgQq4XF7LbDNeZqHrRnrbT-UX03Wq/s1600/DSC08240.JPG" style="height: 550px; width: 733px;" /></p>William Bainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09161231448966037536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5080292359499836653.post-68637451029604034522023-07-09T05:23:00.000-07:002023-07-09T05:24:53.728-07:00Dalloway Day 2023 correction<p> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Woolf and
Eliot</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> Clarifying
briefly, my observation yesterday that discussing good and bad writing takes us
to more complex questions will, I’m sure, seem simplistic. Obviously, a large
part of literary studies and other disciplines for that matter are “about” such
complexities. The essay by T. S. Eliot I mentioned in fact implies some of
these matters in terms of whether or not the critic/poet “of our own time, with
its elaborate equipment of science and psychological analysis, is even less
fitted than the Victorian age to appreciate poetry as poetry.” Virginia
Woolf—and a great many people along with her and with Eliot—was asking herself
some of the same questions. By 1927, when <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">To
the Lighthouse</i> was published, these two Anglo-Modernist writers had
developed rather different answers. However a longer commentary on this will
have to wait as I am currently outside Barcelona
and unable to consult the source books needed to do it proper justice. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p></p>William Bainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09161231448966037536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5080292359499836653.post-34570679527733328092023-07-05T00:39:00.000-07:002023-07-05T00:40:40.414-07:00Dalloway Day 2023<p> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I intended
to post this salutation closer to this year’s Dalloway Day celebration, in mid-June. Excuses
follow, but perhaps it will be of some interest as it stands.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">More ideas
about the poetic aspect of Virginia Woolf’s fiction have come as I’ve gone on
with re-reading The Waves. Poetic obviously has different meanings. Poetry or
verse, as we might also call poetry that isn’t prose. T. S. Eliot, in a short article
titled Poetry in the English Century uses both words. He is writing there about
the Augustan writers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (depending on
how one defines that period). But notably for my short comment here Eliot
emphasises the fact that good poets can also write good prose and good prose
writers can also write good poetry, </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">One thing
that strikes me about this topic in general is that it leads us to other
considerations about the successful/unsuccessful features of what we consider
to be good writing. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And when we
start on such additional considerations we are bound to go into ethical
questions, political issues, and such. The conversation then becomes longer.
But especially in times of crisis like those we face today it is a worthwhile
one. Happy Dalloway Day!<br /></span></p>
<p></p>William Bainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09161231448966037536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5080292359499836653.post-61701057009037123312023-06-30T08:49:00.003-07:002023-06-30T08:50:37.999-07:00three words<p> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">three words</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">sun hammers
my </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">craniocervical
junction<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>takes</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">a mallet to
say out<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of here</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">all the
while the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>rain</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">forest is
going while while while</span></p>
<p></p>William Bainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09161231448966037536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5080292359499836653.post-77148149427665691612023-06-16T04:35:00.003-07:002023-06-16T04:36:40.446-07:00Kitchen repñairs<p> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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repairs</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Try to take
it like a vac—time</span></p>
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while the builders</span></p>
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antique failings.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Time to
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<p></p>William Bainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09161231448966037536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5080292359499836653.post-71441618093319844742023-05-28T04:33:00.000-07:002023-05-28T04:33:41.157-07:00I see a ridge<p> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Closure.</span></p>
<p></p>William Bainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09161231448966037536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5080292359499836653.post-29238624037975328132023-05-17T09:42:00.000-07:002023-05-17T09:43:17.805-07:00FormContent<p> Or perhaps ContentForm.... In any case, a recent experiment:</p><p><br /></p><p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In the rain</span></p>
<p></p>William Bainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09161231448966037536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5080292359499836653.post-26711929397439063562023-04-29T00:30:00.001-07:002023-04-29T00:30:40.677-07:00Traveling<p> I'll be taking a trip for a few days & offline. Thanks for looking in & I hope some new material comes with our travels.<br /></p>William Bainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09161231448966037536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5080292359499836653.post-58231027569224462572023-04-17T01:03:00.002-07:002023-04-17T01:04:40.557-07:00Ahmad Jamal<p> News first thing this morning of the death of Ahmad Jamal. Such a very great individual and musician. Montse and I bought his album "Pittsburgh" in that honeymoon style trip we took to New York City in 1990 or 1991. I think you'd really enjoy listening to that if you can find it, which I'm sure you can. Try to hear his music, that special use he makes of sound/silence. Very wonderful, very true rhythmically.......<br /></p>William Bainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09161231448966037536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5080292359499836653.post-90330776376163551922023-04-13T01:21:00.000-07:002023-04-13T01:22:23.634-07:00visit (work in progress)<div style="text-align: left;"> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 27.0pt; tab-stops: 27.0pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In relation to technical
problems I’ve set up a provisional Twitter account. At the moment the account
is purely bare bones and I will be changing the name some time in April. As I
posted previously, Twitter Help/Support has been notified of the tech
problems. At present I am reading but not sending tweets.<br /></span></p>
<p></p>William Bainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09161231448966037536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5080292359499836653.post-88674858918216756092023-03-17T05:28:00.000-07:002023-03-17T05:29:16.372-07:00Toward Spring<p> Happy Saint Patrick's Day ! On the way to Spring. New reading includes Michel de Montaigne's essay "On the power of the imagination." Inspiring lots of thoughts on the German concept of Stimmung, meaning mood, in English. Perhaps this is a kind of poetic shifting of gears after my recent reading in Vincent van Gogh's letters. His favorite color apparently was yellow, an interesting one when it comes to mixing paint. Somewhat differently, moods can be mixed, But then much in human creation seems to depend on adding and subtracting. All the while, choosing........ Toward Spring !<br /></p><p><br /></p>William Bainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09161231448966037536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5080292359499836653.post-87758272395525513632023-02-28T11:03:00.000-08:002023-02-28T11:05:08.103-08:00Granite<p>Closing in on a large stone, in search, I suppose, of abstraction......</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZPC9f4kv0oytnb0kMcbKYa0fNARr3M4cM6cSoQkBWZMoKUZq4EIYvPqQwynhUKYlMXBNVqq19mmNVyb5G0ZgEA-cmxE3xnNUXWnd46TmZ7U-AwTqlnwTWFIj13XPKmp9NU2AEL6l_UzkU4pKGEwXw_XYxYb-WhqU1jLvnoQzTOlaJMhgCOW9m6dQt1g/s4080/IMG20230226142324.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZPC9f4kv0oytnb0kMcbKYa0fNARr3M4cM6cSoQkBWZMoKUZq4EIYvPqQwynhUKYlMXBNVqq19mmNVyb5G0ZgEA-cmxE3xnNUXWnd46TmZ7U-AwTqlnwTWFIj13XPKmp9NU2AEL6l_UzkU4pKGEwXw_XYxYb-WhqU1jLvnoQzTOlaJMhgCOW9m6dQt1g/w400-h301/IMG20230226142324.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>William Bainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09161231448966037536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5080292359499836653.post-17065952964353423942023-02-24T03:34:00.003-08:002023-02-24T03:35:58.496-08:00Vincent Van Gogh's writing<p> Continuing <span class="x193iq5w xeuugli x13faqbe x1vvkbs x1xmvt09 x1lliihq x1s928wv xhkezso x1gmr53x x1cpjm7i x1fgarty x1943h6x xudqn12 x3x7a5m x6prxxf xvq8zen xo1l8bm xzsf02u x1yc453h" dir="auto">to marvel over Vincent Van Gogh's descriptions of color in his
paintings. As here, in an 1888 letter to his sister, Wil: "Right at the
back, black cypresses against low white cottages with orange roofs--and a
delicate green-blue strip of sky.... [N]ot one of the flowers has been
properly drawn ... [and] they are only small dabs of color, red, yellow,
orange, green, blue, violet, but the impression of all those colors
next to one another is there--in the painting as in <span></span>nature...." Painting with words! His writing brings out a lot about his theory of art, obviously.</span></p>William Bainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09161231448966037536noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5080292359499836653.post-48332483360533021192023-02-08T11:15:00.000-08:002023-02-08T11:15:04.840-08:00Turkey-Syria Earthquake Aid<p> It's never easy to know which organizartions can help most. On Facebook I've shared one emergency aid site. Hoping to help as we can.<br /></p>William Bainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09161231448966037536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5080292359499836653.post-1489459366204315902023-02-03T02:52:00.000-08:002023-02-03T02:52:55.179-08:00Updates<p> As indicated in my previous post LinkedIn has been renewed. Twitter info was also to be revised but it seems this will have to wait until their security allows me to access my account. I've made them aware of the problem. It might be related to the information published on Wire magazine, link below. </p><p>https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-leak-200-million-user-email-addresses/<br /></p>William Bainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09161231448966037536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5080292359499836653.post-67820711054690403412023-01-29T03:13:00.002-08:002023-01-29T03:14:46.133-08:00Updates<p> My LinkedIn profile has been updated. I've added some information to the About section and replaced references in the Publications section which was previously lost. Thanks to all for looking in !<br /></p>William Bainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09161231448966037536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5080292359499836653.post-60665083336226424702023-01-23T03:43:00.002-08:002023-01-23T03:44:58.318-08:00grasping<p> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">past the
big oleander bush</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">backing off
the tiles onto the lawn</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">staring at
the railing</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">staring at
the terrazzo decking of the porch</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">through the
spaces between the balusters</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">between the
top rail and the bottom one if you</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">prefer to
look at it that way the way the</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">birds had
gone silent</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">silence the
air</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">traffic on
the highway</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">about a
kilometre away bikes</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">then the
brush decorator’s brush</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">natural
bristle</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">ancient the
bristles nicked into at the toe</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">or torn
half-torn away</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">remnants of
paint (water base)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">on the
ferrule and</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">on the
handle</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span></p>
<p></p>William Bainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09161231448966037536noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5080292359499836653.post-78516078301061293072022-12-24T02:06:00.000-08:002022-12-24T02:06:51.568-08:00Re-walking Buncrana & Season's Greetings<p> Reviewing photos of Buncrana Heritage Trail...... Here's a dark shot and a light one. Seaon's Greetings to All !</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4wNkjd6Rt7okQK6kFcC8KmzOSVRjV_6Sg7ScKZXaV-xrxWSE2mmGjvLb6oFeew5uRHr6ohCog5DTbNDw7sbV8CKArhk-xFE07oEQOkpJ19Jb1DdgERmVvN1DfGTiXn6wT6NuVx3SrbrkjcOhz_Y2S2qKMSzK6GCp5kmf6Fuhxb80lYmEzmSI3B2ZyaA/s4608/P8080266.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4wNkjd6Rt7okQK6kFcC8KmzOSVRjV_6Sg7ScKZXaV-xrxWSE2mmGjvLb6oFeew5uRHr6ohCog5DTbNDw7sbV8CKArhk-xFE07oEQOkpJ19Jb1DdgERmVvN1DfGTiXn6wT6NuVx3SrbrkjcOhz_Y2S2qKMSzK6GCp5kmf6Fuhxb80lYmEzmSI3B2ZyaA/s320/P8080266.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIH0X9CEe2-VjwfWU9wLSMZsINS2WqxkfVebicmpS6kqeTHWw9it4J7AGLcKSZJqckLH-IIB5uj9ZXPWCrIWwWKT3Om_ndDWxchSddwkuvQv8cbCxGBcLTyvXe5X3g7ktZrBrMboajym3WOAZc8hqsV6uyvf1i67vGK531_0z4HksOb-PYRSivU-AHgQ/s4608/P8080290.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3456" data-original-width="4608" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIH0X9CEe2-VjwfWU9wLSMZsINS2WqxkfVebicmpS6kqeTHWw9it4J7AGLcKSZJqckLH-IIB5uj9ZXPWCrIWwWKT3Om_ndDWxchSddwkuvQv8cbCxGBcLTyvXe5X3g7ktZrBrMboajym3WOAZc8hqsV6uyvf1i67vGK531_0z4HksOb-PYRSivU-AHgQ/s320/P8080290.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>William Bainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09161231448966037536noreply@blogger.com0