4.30am

Posted on 1 June, 20201 June, 2020 by David Meredith

The dawn chorus. It bursts into life at whatever time and, just when you're awake with little chance of dropping back to sleep (yes, about 4.30am), it takes a break till later. I'm not a heavy sleeper and so, for...Read More

Ouch

Posted on 18 May, 202019 May, 2020 by David Meredith

On Wednesday, I did something to a calf muscle during my early morning walk. Whether it was the cold weather or trying to walk too fast or what, I'm not sure. But it went into some sort of spasm and...Read More

Whose truth?

Posted on 10 May, 202010 May, 2020 by David Meredith

During the week, I popped in to an eerily quiet St Vincent's Private Hospital to see the bloke who fixed my hernia. He was in sparkling form and treated me to a 20 minute lecture on the virus, mortality rates,...Read More

Not a good start

Posted on 3 May, 20203 May, 2020 by David Meredith

I drove WestIn the season between seasons.I left behind suburban gardens.Lawnmowers. Small talk.(White Hawthorn in the West of Ireland, Eavan Boland) On Monday evening I was shocked and quite upset when I heard that Eavan Boland had died. She was...Read More

Keeping the Show on the Road

Posted on 19 April, 202020 April, 2020 by David Meredith

Not that much to show you today. I have kept to my resolution but the things I've been working on are more about long term developments than quick wins. The big news of the week was work-related: the launch of...Read More

Locked Down

Posted on 6 April, 20206 April, 2020 by David Meredith

As the coronavirus pandemic rages throughout the world, we've been told to stay at home, and only go out for necessities, to support vulnerable people or to exercise within a 2k radius from home. The point is to break the...Read More

A Strange Week

Posted on 25 January, 202025 January, 2020 by David Meredith

First, a postscript to my last post. The labelling of my marmalade jars! It's been an odd week. I've struggled to stave off or at least not to succumb to a cold. I thought I had it under control on...Read More

Choices

Posted on 15 January, 202015 January, 2020 by David Meredith

I was just reading an online article about a Finnish initiative to alleviate homelessness that has had huge success. In short, the state provides discounted loans to a Finnish NGO that buys and renovates properties to house those without homes....Read More

It IS actually all about me

Posted on 17 November, 201818 November, 2018 by David Meredith

Messing with portraits and a new app. I'm working on an idea for the treatment of a poem and I want to incorporate a slow dissolve from one picture to another. On the way to the supermarket this morning I...Read More

Love

Posted on 29 October, 2018 by David Meredith

Still working with the blended pastel on rag paper idea but marrying it with some Celtic knotwork. I was looking for something romantic to write over it. And then I thought of Eavan Boland's poem Quarantine, about the famine. And...Read More

Photographic rediscovery

Posted on 15 September, 201815 September, 2018 by David Meredith

We've been talking about buying a replacement camera for ages and we finally bought one a couple of weeks ago. It's a Canon Powershot and is slightly, but not much, more sophisticated than a point and click camera. Whereas in...Read More