The Questing Vole

Am currently looking into the world of voles. I had a very timid encounter with a mousey type creatue in a shamanic journey the other evening, the evening of the 31st of December, in fact. A quick spot of nosing around the next day revealed that the mousey creature is one of the reddish-coloured voles. Having fun finding out more.... There's about 70 odd species of vole, apparently. What larks!

Thank you, Oliver and Peter

Sad days.  Smallfilms is such a creative and humane body of work. It's much cherished by three generations of my family and holds an intimate place in our lives and in the imagination of so many people I admire and respect. See Dharma Rascal's lovely tribute here:

http://www.facebook.com/not.php?note_id=50913789907

Here's some images of him and the  beautiful work he made with Peter Firmin.

Oliver Postgate, born 12 April 1925, died 8 December 2008

Just had to share this....

...incredible image, which is on my desktop just now.  I never tire of it.

Dunabrattin

And more pictures from the coast.

Dunabrattin

Here are some pictures of where my mum and dad live in the south of Ireland.

Brambles

This post is a little behind the times, but never mind. Here are some pictures (taken at the end of September) of bramble picking in the south of Ireland, starring David, Bob and me, taken by Suriyavamsa. The brambles later starred in an apple and bramble pie. Translation note, bramble = blackberry.

Red, Blue, Yellow

This is 'Asia Style', a chinese restaurant in Glasgow.