April Fooled.. Last of the Literary Fest

  The last few moments of this years Oxford Literary Festival fooled me.  A few pieces of the past were still strewn about town as I walked through but alas the amazing event has just left town.         Thankfully an exhibition in the Vaults cafe celebrates the buzz of the festival that has […]
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Galway Art

    Music on The Water is an exhibition in Galway City Museum of paintings by Artist Maurice Quillinan.  Based in Kildare, Quillinan studied Art at Limerick and later the Royal College of Art.  His work is held in private collections across the globe.  I got lucky and stumbled on a site specific portrayal of […]
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Over Due

Lately being late to leave the library has taught me a few things!     Don’t eat that Donut With a detox straight out of the box comes a beauty shot like a bullet to the heart. When you’re starved the head pulls a text book apart. Only cheese makes life easy. Now that I know what love isn’t joy […]
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Happy Pancake Poem!

  Flipping light   A long streak of white moon slides drops of silver on to a hairy earth. When a sly street lamp scatter guns neon candy it bounces off unsuspecting geometric symmetric random roof tops. Neglected horizons fall in line for sunrise. Everything too tall to beat to the bird song Is painted orange. […]
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Dynwens Last Symphony – the past is cast

    This photo was taken near a well and reminds me of the region of Wales where Saint Dynwen’s story began.   Tomorrow is the patron saint of Love’s day of celebration.  This celtic Saint has her own island devoted to her near Anglesey in Wales where floral tributes are left.   My new […]
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Water Cycle

Water Cycle by Lita Doolan   CAST   Lou – a journalist Fritz – a young sculptor   A fiction set in the work room of a young sculptor. A journalist tries to get his secrets.     (Fritz sits alone upstage right reading a letter. He hunts for a CD on his person and […]
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Countdown to Christmas for Canines

  Winter knocked on the door of the tall house.   In the forest all was lost except the tiny puppy. The starving dog found a home in the old kennel left by an owner who had moved after the land was sold by the Duke.   The hunting dogs at the Palace were prepared […]
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Success with Scrivener

  I visited a number of gardens this year that touched my soul and I wanted to collect the stories in a small book people could download. Hey Presto – having put together a draft that looked good I searched for the big button that would instantly upload it to the web. That was 2 […]
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Dilston Physic Garden Daylight

  This post is inspired by “Nighthawks” where a silence creates a form of communication between distinct individuals who have their own culture but come together to create a new language. Plants with medicinal properties were grown at Dilston Hall that stood near this site on the River Tyne in medieval times. In the early 16th […]
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Taurus of Bologna Botanic Garden

    There is modern art around the roads leading in towards the city that has a humour. Raphael the artist grew up here and the contrasts in the way the land is segmented into wedges of valleys above lush thriving lines of vegetation betray the structures in his composition. There is form in the […]
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