Everything from the Barcelona portion of the Spain trip is up on Flickr now. The set is here.

I should manage to get the Granada stuff organized and edited in the next couple days, too! And then I will have a slightly-less-massive photo backlog to get caught up on. (Wolsingham to Frosterley walk is still lurking in the files.)

In Barcelona! It's balmy and beautiful here.

Some of what's happened lately is on the blog, and the rest is on the Flickr page, especially if you don't care so much about the words and just want the pretty pictures. Everything from Sweden and Edinburgh is there, handily sorted into sets.

Photos and a poem from Saltburn-by-the-Sea. And prior to that, a little glimpse of wacky British children's television, with wacky American children's television to go along with.

All the photos from last week, which include a diversion to Newcastle as well, are on Flickr.

More stuff! Jazz and poetry (lots of poetry, cathedral, bells, snowfall, Shrove Tuesday and pancakes.

Sometimes class and Youtube collide. In this case, it's in the matter of Irish writer Thomas Moore and his Irish Melodies, which we discussed in Reflections on Revolution yesterday.

More downright entertaining as a work of literature, though, is his Memoirs of Captain Rock. Thank you, Google Books.

I got to hear Kathleen Jamie give a reading last night. Lovely! Poem at link.

A very silly post about breadboxes.

I've got some proper posts coming up eventually, but in the meantime, I quoted some RuskinI'm tempted to return the Paul Ricoeur I checked out of the library and just acquire more Ruskin. Anyone who can influence both Gerard Manley Hopkins (mmmmmmm, Hopkins) and William Morris/19th Century British Socialism mostly by writing about art and ( Read more... )

Mmmmmmmsnow. More photos on the Flickr site.

Every time I think I've wrapped my head around differences between North American and British post-secondary education, I learn of more. And others just continue to preoccupy me.