Tuesday, October 12, 2010

literary detective

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White frost on the grass and the study feels particularly cold after the heat of the marvellous stove in the bedroom. The bricks retain thei...
Monday, October 11, 2010

Village life

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A lazy Sundayin the Bucharest flat – demonstrating the dangers of television. The saving grace was another sight of the amazing (Danish) Bab...
Sunday, October 10, 2010

snow and gutters

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For the first time in ten years snow prevented me yesterday from getting to the mountain house. My misfortune was to go into the mountains j...
Friday, October 8, 2010

Romanian art and the financial crisis

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Bucharest is not conducive to thinking and blogging. Too many distractions (TV, Museums and bookshops) and too little space in the flat. Wed...
Thursday, September 30, 2010

recent literary greats

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Still in Bucharest – but an American article bemoaning the “fodder” (as the author put it) which the “ urban middle class proletariat” there...
Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Visibility and the art market

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My first days in Romania were in the dark days (or rather nights – the lighting was appalling) of 1991. When I had a proper base (mid 1990s)...
Sunday, September 26, 2010

Life again

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The British Labour party has a new Leader again – after a 4 month campaign. I found it hard to work up any real enthusiasm for the candida...
Saturday, September 25, 2010

depression and massacres

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The glorious weather has broken – and mist is swirling around the hills. So my thick soup for breakfast. Yesterday the reading was a bit har...