Squid displays self

THE KRAKEN HAS INSOMNIA!

in an

Incredible tentacular spectacular

P.R.Murry’s artwork:

“The Big Squid”

has re-emerged from

the Dollis Hill Abyss

to display itself in the
Brent Artists Register Spring Show 2008
at Willesden Library Gallery
(Willesden Green Library Centre,
95 High Rd, Willesden,
London NW10 2SF
tel:8298 1421,
email info@brentartistsresource.org.uk).
The show will be open to the public
from 13th May until 5th June 2008.
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Private View 22nd May 6.00-8.30 pm.

The Willesden Hang

Members of Brent Artists Register hanging the Spring Show at Willesden Library Gallery (Willesden Green Library Centre, 95 High Rd, Willesden, London NW10 2SF tel:8298 1421, email info@brentartistsresource.org.uk). The show will be open to the public from 13th May until 5th june 2008. Private View 22nd May 6.00-8.30 pm.
gallery

Catching up with my camera, part 2: Urban Fox in Dollis Hill April 2008

Wordsworth, (the Urban Fox) lays down after his Laudanum to seek inspiration from Daffs and stone statue of Octopus.


Wordsworth digesting second hand Kentucky Fried Chicken

Catching up with my camera, Part 1: Holiday snaps from Languedoc Xmas 2007

Winter Sunlight in an old town


winter sunlight on vines


Alarming side effect of French nuclear program


Norman Foster bridge and winter tree

Bridge pillar

Now that I’ve stopped being an alcohol dispensing machine

Now that I’ve stopped being an alcohol dispensing machine, I can stop to reflect on recent events for this blog. I work as a barman in Birkbeck College, and I do day shifts which are usually quite light on custom, except in the first week of May 2008. When exams finish people want to piss it up big time, and on a couple of days this week I was the only Bar Associate, (my distinguished official job title), in the place and I had to facilitate my fellow students in the task of drinking the bar dry over about 3hrs. Mind you, all the customers were very nice, and I guess most pub bar staff work about this hard usually, it just came as a cruel and unusual shock to me.

My usual practice of mucking about with websites, blogs and keeping up with email correspondence in between serving the odd latty now and then, has been disrupted, which is unfortunate because the Green email lists that I regularly keep an eye on have both been busy with controversies. One over the recent NUT/UCU/PCS (teachers, college lecturers and civil servants), strike, where one correspondent dragged his coat by suggesting that school teachers were overpaid and not deserving of Green Party support. As if that weren’t enough petrol on the fire, a population policy working paper is being prepared for the next Green Party conference and one draft suggests, among other things a government set target population for the UK and the use of child benefit , (or rather the withholding of it), to restrict family size. A can of burning worms, which has somehow got to be dealt without enabling the mainstream media to portray GP as misanthropic nutters.