Flights of the butterfly

  • I DON’T LIKE JAZZ

    I like music. In fact, it is essential to my wellbeing. I have a collection of about five thousand tracks, all genres. They are on a laptop and they play whenever I am in the flat, day or night, awake or asleep. Obvs, the volume is kept down for the neighbours’ sake – just to…

  • Frankie and the Wolf chapter II

    I wasn’t expecting to be doing this so soon. It’s beginning to sound like I’m banging on about stuff. But, I bumped into an article in the Times about our old mate Frankie. Time marches on and things change: 1877 Merson Luc Olivier This is very  clearly a completely different kind of art. A lot…

  • The History of Art

    Mike and Pablo Mike was a painter. You may have heard of some of his work. He did the ceiling of a chapel somewhere which everyone raves about. (It was a bit of a surprise for the old Popeydope who was expecting two coats of magnolia emulsion.) Mike had an assistant called Pablo, of whom…