Sunday, 22 June 2025

Art vs Artist

 By popular demand-
 What? Since when was two people showing a polite, vague interest "popular demand"?
 Since now.  Go and interfere somewhere else.  This is my post!
 I think you'll find it is our post.  After all, whose name is on all those header images further down, hmm?
 Oh, hush.  Why don't you go and see to that ever widening Cusp interface before someone - or someones - falls in!
 Fine.  I'll leave you to your little doodles, then!
 
 Right.  Now that Witchface has gone, here is the Art vs Artist thingy I mentioned in the last post. It's something I saw on BlueSky so I thought I'd have a go, too.
 The majority that I saw are 3x3 square grids with a photo of the artist in the centre square surrounded by eight pieces of their work, so I followed the same pattern (it's all Star Trek stuff as I rarely produce any other kind):
 

Top left to right:

Thursday, 19 June 2025

Four Photos: The Drier Side of Britain

 
Something for Ms Scarlet to consider...
(Proof of North Norfolk's dryness compared to Devon's - well, Cornwall, as Bude is the closest weather station to Ms Scarlet's neck of the woods) 
 
 
Stinking iris or roast-beef plant (Iris foetidissima)
 (A native to Britain, but "exotic" in New Zealand - the tables are turning, Dinah!)
 
(I've included this as a reminder for me to concoct an Art vs Artist collage)
 
 
An unused photo from 2023's Salt Rooks
 You know, to show how dry it is here and all that...
 

Sunday, 15 June 2025

Not the Hexenhäusli Device Gardens IV*

Agave montana flower head
 In the comments of my latest Four Photos post, I said to Jon that I might put up some photos from a recent visit to The Old Vicarage Gardens in East Ruston - and here they are!
 
* III can be found here
 
 We shall try to identify the various plants featured here, but The Host couldn't be bothered to stoop down and find the labels and photograph them while at the gardens, despite my nagging urging, so The Official Plant Spotter of Hexenhäusli Device and its Extensive Witchdom - AKA Jon - may have his work cut out.
 I was with a friend!  I had gossiping and laughing to do, not to mention trying to keep Witchface under wraps, so grubbing around in the undergrowth was low on my list of priorities! 
 
 Anyway, before we set off, Alison Goldfrapp has kindly offered to provide a musical accompaniment with her latest release, Sound & Light: 



I think these may be the flowers of Dianella caerulea?
(The plants I grew from seeds liberated from TOVG back in 2019 haven't flowered yet.  They're not doing very well where they are - and get trampled quite a lot by Bitey - so I will probably have to move them.)
 
 
Some sort of cow parsley/angelica thingy.

Thursday, 12 June 2025

Tunes on Tuesday - on Thursday!

 Its been a month since my last Tunes on Tuesday, so here's a collection of some new, borrowed, and old music that I've been listening to since then.
 
 Oh, and the reason this is on Thursday is because I forgot to set up the autopublishing thingy at the weekend when I put this post together.  Drat! 

  
Reverberotic - Alison Goldfrapp


Nothing on Me - White Lies

 A couple of new ones from Ms Goldfrapp and my favourite glum, beardy miseryguts and his band.

Saturday, 7 June 2025

Four Photos: 4

Male broad-bodied chaser dragonfly
 
 
A Triffid!!!  Agave montana flower head
 
 
End-of-the-Line
 

Friday evening