The Bird Effect Diaries
31 July 2010 // The Bird Effect
The diary of the making of a film. and an on going fascination with birds and their accompanying cast of human characters. By Ceri Levy. Wednesday 2nd December “Whatever path your life takes, make it useful and strive to achieve progress, however modest it may seem in your chosen field. In this way you will [...]
Lines Made By Walking
30 July 2010 // Lines Made by Walking
by Jude Rogers 18. Site Lines So we all hopped on a train, or started up a fiery engine, and headed down to Cornwall for the Port Eliot festival. I ventured alone, from Paddington to St Germans, a four-man tent on my back, as well as mud-weather wellies, scruffy clothes for all seasons, and a [...]
Letter From Arcadia
The Pit And The Pendulum. ja your news of death in bivvy city put my indicators half-slack. a different face on the wanted poster now. heathcliffe holds up spawnbound coach. the old dodger gone, no 2 robbed of its pearls, and half the bivvies with it, i suspect. two years back, opening night down wimbledon [...]
Port Eliot in Pictures
28 July 2010 // Port Eliot festival
Our friend and long-time contributor Neil Thomson was down at Port Eliot with us at the weekend and managed to get photos of pretty much everything that we were too busy drinking to capture. Here a selection of his pictures from the weekend. Hope it gives some idea of how ace it was. Book now [...]
This Summer, I Will Mostly Be Reading
28 July 2010 // Summer Reading 2010
Tim Dee. I don’t really like fish but I am much looking forward to Andrew Grieg’s account of ghost casting for the great poet Norman MacCaig, At the Loch of the Green Corrie. I am not much of a mountain-man either but will certainly read Jim Perrin’s West, the climbing writer’s memoir. The good news [...]
Port Eliot 2010 – View From The Other Side
27 July 2010 // Port Eliot festival
Waking up in your own bed… sometimes it’s a bit overrated. Maybe that’s just because for the last few days you’ve been relocated to the most beautiful festival site just over the Devon/Cornwall border putting on a series of inspirational events in a tent just next to a riverbank where people are dipping in from [...]
The Fantastic Slightly Foxed
by Andy Childs. With the publishing industry seemingly in music biz-style turmoil over the dreaded impact of digital technology and the circulations of newspapers and magazines apparently in freefall it may come as a pleasant surprise to learn that there is at least one periodical that is not only surviving in these uncertain times but [...]
How Far To The Horizon 3
Sorry for the delay. Where was I? Oh yes, in Barrafina, Frith Street, on a warm Soho evening, with beer flooding my senses and salt on my tongue. I’m having dinner with my 76 year old father, Felix, a native New Yorker on a rare visit to London. Giddily, I had sent him the link [...]
Fishing at Swallow Falls, 1971
My mates Grandad, Robert Stuart Rofe, at Swallow Falls, Gwynedd, in the early 1970′s
This Summer, I Will Mostly Be Reading
24 July 2010 // Summer Reading 2010
Jon Berry. This summer I won’t be reading very much, which is unusual for me. I have a book of my own to finish, and another which is complete but requires a little redrafting before I let the publisher loose on it. And, when I am writing, I can’t read. I’m too much of a [...]
Caught by the River