Not-Tallinn city blog: Into South Estonia
Surprisingly fast the city (to be fair remarkably green in summer) gives way to silver birch and pine forest. Slim trunk dark walls line either side the road, for long periods the world beyond the […]
July 2012
Novels and ‘the holy contour of life’
In his 30 point Belief and Technique for modern prose Jack Kerouac exhorts writers to ‘Believe in the holy contour of life’ and to be ‘Writer-Director of earthly movies Sponsored & Angeled in Heaven.’ It […]
The heel; a woman’s weakness in more ways than one.
Heels, every woman loves them. Among the blogs, magazines and columns I have read, the vast majority continue to declare their love and admiration. Never a bad word said against them, they have become God’s […]
Italian recipe: Spaghetti cacio&pepe
If you have been to Rome, you should know what I’m talking about. If you have walked in the pictoresque small streets in the centre, I’m sure your nostrils have been captured by the voluptuary […]