WINDSONG

To Madeleine in Australia, Fateme and Amir in Iran, Michael and Penny in Bangladesh, Tom in Denmark, Mary in Paris, Peter in Abaco, Karen in...

Shortly after posting my last blog about the death of Ramin Pourandarjani I received a text informing me that a friend, Dr Rory O'Connor...

Dr Ramin Pourandarjani and a torture sculpture by Ahad Hossein in the Azerbayjan Museum of his home city of Tabriz, Iran . In your thoughts ...

Dubai Creek 1946 and 2006. The Wind Towers of yore replaced by the Air-conditioned towers of now. John, my neighbour, committed suicide earl...

Syntactic Musings I am reading at present the very accessible and very thought provoking book A History of Language by Stephen Roger Fische...

The Peating of My Heart It’s a lonely thing, The sudden silence. Birth waters still; settling. But, listen to the resonance In the furrowing...

Thierry Henry hiding behind a beard . I love the notion, indeed the expectation, of any genuine sporting contest. It does not matter what th...

Papoosed A short whimsical blog. I suited up this morning (papoosed ) to take young grandson Leon and our dog across the tidal flats to the ...

Rihla (The Journey) – was the short title of a 14th Century (1355) book written in Fez by the Islamic legal scholar Ibn Jazayy al-Kalbi ...

An Old Door in Yazd , Iran showing old-style communication. A genderised communication with differing shaped knockers giving a different sou...

Rihla (The Journey) – was the short title of a 14th Century (1355) book written in Fez by the Islamic legal scholar Ibn Jazayy al-Kalbi of...

Rihla (The Journey) – was the short title of a 14th Century (1355) book written in Fez by the Islamic legal scholar Ibn Jazayy al-Kalbi ...

A shopfront in Innishannon, Co. Cork, Ireland. With global warming and the gradual northerly shift in the warming Gulf Stream seasonal chang...