Lake scene

I thought I'd already posted some of this terragen work, but apparently not, so here's the latest state.


I'm not sure about some of those greens...

Mutterings - Feb 22

This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:

1. Deep dive :: Submarine
2. Puppies :: Cute
3. Bow :: Homage (also Clara - I don't quite date back to that, but I read lots of Wooster books when I was younger!)
4. Clown :: Mask
5. Fresh! :: Mushrooms!
6. Munch :: Scream (the artist...)
7. Jack :: Built
8. Boiled :: Sweet
9. Elected :: Dictatorship (cynical? Me?)
10. Book club :: BATS (that's the one I belong to)

Teaser Tuesday - Feb 17

Teaser Tuesday
The rules are:

• Grab your current read.
• Let the book fall open to a random page.
• Share with us two (2) 'teaser' sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
• You also need to share the title and author of the book that you’re getting your 'teaser' from .. that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you've given!

As it turned out, the potato-cakes were spoilt; because while we were eating them, we had one of those family rows which are so funny in books and on the pictures. They aren't funny in real life, particularly when they happen at meals, as they so often do.

From Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle our book group book of the month. Here's the goodread reviews and another review:

the novel’s plot wavers between the predictable and the absurd, with a superfluous dash of theatricality.

Mutterings - Feb 15

This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:

1. Buff :: In the
2. Spiderwebs :: Smeagol - the end of the Two Towers!
3. Hostile :: Intruder
4. Viewed :: Youtube
5. Cross :: Nought
6. Load :: Friction - casting back to additional maths O level and seemingly interminable exercises with objects on slopes and friction coefficients!
7. Reboot :: GRUB (a certain amount of Linux knowledge required here..)
8. Smell :: Cooking
9. Sniffle :: Cold
10. Company :: Two's

Denise Duval

Somehow I'd missed the notices of Denise Duval's death - Francis Poulenc's muse during the last 10+ years of his life. Here they are - Poulenc introducing an extract from Les Mamelles de Teresias



no subtitles I'm afraid but very much worth it for those two performing together! I don't think (despite the youtube comments) that Poulenc does too badly with some singing(!) especially as he's coping with some exciting piano writing. If you want for the end you'll get as the next video the two performing extracts from the "Dialogues des Carmélites" and "Voix Humaine." Two great artists! Here's the Guardian obituary:

“For me, Duval was the Garbo of opera with a wild touch of vaudeville,” Rorem wrote. “She had clarity, intelligence, diction, beauty – with those eyes the size of eagle eggs.” For his part, Poulenc said of his muse: “This girl is pure sunlight.”

Mutterings - Feb 9

This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:

1. Pleasure :: Machine ( was that Woody Allen or I'm sorry I'll read that again?)
2. Emoticon :: Ascii
3. Race :: Human
4. Highlight :: Marker
5. 56 :: 7*8
6. Error :: 404
7. Taken :: Chess
8. Street food :: Pizza
9. Common sense :: Grounded (someone with common sense is clearly well grounded)
10. Grace :: before meals

Teaser Tuesday - Feb 2

Teaser Tuesday
The rules are:

• Grab your current read.
• Let the book fall open to a random page.
• Share with us two (2) 'teaser' sentences from that page, somewhere between lines 7 and 12.
• You also need to share the title and author of the book that you’re getting your 'teaser' from .. that way people can have some great book recommendations if they like the teaser you've given!

Better late...

The face is blank and stiff, almost expressionless. One realises with a start how unchanging and conventionalized is the face of the living man and woman of these parts, handsome, but motionless as pure form.

From D H Lawrence's Twilight in Italy, I loved this book when I first found it at school and have returned to it regularly though not for quite a few years. This section is about crucifixes in the alpine meadows.

Mutterings - Feb 1

This week's free word associations from Unconscious mutterings are:

1. Temper :: Steel (as in the manufacturing process)
2. Late! :: Breakfast
3. Status :: Site (as in website status)
4. Breakfast :: Croissant (I don't think I saw this before entering the second word in the list)
5. Hopeless :: Case
6. 365 :: 366
7. Lottery :: National
8. Cancer :: Lump
9. Facebook :: Upload
10. Date :: ISO