The Ailing Tradition of Christmas Cards- Blessing or Loss
It’s not really news that the art of sending Christmas cards is an ailing one. I still like to send Christmas cards, indeed to me it is part of...
Jeni on Drawing 5 – Drawing and Sketching
The differences between ‘drawing’ and ‘painting’ are not always easy to define. Drawings are generally personal, intimate things, often made quickly to capture a fleeting moment in time. Paintings...
Jeni on Drawing 4 – Drawing Around
When you think about it, drawing lines around things is really trying to capture an illusion. There are no lines around anything we see, only edges where one ‘thing’...
Jeni on Drawing 3 Drawing on Past Experience
More years ago than I care to count, when I was doing an art foundation course at Hull Art College, I fell in love with life drawing....
Malta Diary Touches of sanity in today’s eyesore concrete jungle -archaeological sites and buildings now Scheduled and cannot be destroyed or altered in any way
ALBERT FENECH e/mail – Facebook: I have written it before and repeat, if my great grandparents and grandparents were to be resurrected today and placed anywhere in...
Jeni On Drawing – 2. More on Drawing
All of us are born with an urge to make marks, to sing, dance and generally express ourselves individually. If you ask any small child if they can draw...
Karl’s Chronicles. Article 50 Marrakesh – The Maze of Shadows
Pummelled and bruised like a failed fighter, the glum wasp-yellow taxi coughed its way down Rue Mohamed V. The broad artery named after the first King at Independence from...
Jeni on Drawing – 1
I can’t remember not drawing. Over the years I have put a lot of thought into the whys and wherefores of this delicious activity, especially when I started...
Mumbai Memoir 137- Fiction time during lockdown!
Recently Mumbai has opened up on various fronts. Though Mumbai’s railway service is still not operational, people are moving around in buses & private vehicles for their work and...
Art In The Savill Garden
Colour, shape, form and composition, ever-changing, ever growing. Nature is art. It surprises us every hour, every day. A flower opening its petals, droplets of water balancing on leafy...
Malta Diary Valletta’s St John’s Co-Cathedral – one of the most renowned and beautiful in the world
Baroque art and history at its best ALBERT FENECH e/mail: salina46af@gmail,com Facebook: There were two aspects to the Knight Hospitaliers of the Order of St John of Jerusalem;...
Mumbai Memoir 136 – Mumbai in Picture Postcards!
‘Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder’- This popular quote actually means its ‘perception’ that matters. The city of Mumbai has its own good, bad and ugly side...
Karl’s Chronicles. Cairo Curiosities – Ten To Explore
Touchdown in Cairo and the immediate effect can be overwhelming at best. The city never seems to end, an ancient forest of concrete apartment blocks whose heat-weary occupants, watch...
SHELLY BEACH SNIPPETS No. 125 August, 2020.
Patricia Newell-Dunkley – Photographs Reginald J. Dunkley Greetings from down under where the weather has turned arctic for the last month. Heavy snow has been falling and Tasmania has...
Mumbai Memoir 134 – Truly an Eco-Friendly Ganesh Festival in Mumbai!
Ganesh festival is a big 10 -day festive event in Mumbai. But this year due to the pandemic, the festival celebration was as invisible as the new coronavirus! Festivals...
MALTA DIARY: Magnificent building, magnificent views of the Grand Harbour – and now with an added attraction
ALBERT FENECH e/mail – Facebook: Malta’s picturesque Grand Harbour in the capital city Valletta is a magnificent natural port. It is rated to be...
Karl’s Chronicles Article 45 Titian: Love, Desire, Death.
Centring around Metamorphoses by the Roman poet Ovid, Titian, under commission from Prince Philip of Spain, created a set of paintings based on classical myths, developed between 1551...
Karl’s Chronicles; Ethiopia – 10 Defining Experiences
All manner of changes came into effect at the border. Not just a change in bureaucratic procedures or a shift from Arabic to Amharic, or even the usual follies...
Mumbai Memoir -133- Glitter in the midst of Mumbai’s ‘darkness’!
This year’s 15th August marked the 74th Independence Day of India. Due to the COVID-19 ambiance most of Mumbaikar’s are experiencing a surreal gloom about the festivals that are...
Athens looks towards modern art – World Meanderings (n°96
By Annick Dournes & Frédéric de Poligny Athens is not all about Antiquity. The proof is in the recent opening of the Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation,...
Barcelona: a city of sun, sea and style
Barcelona, in eastern Spain is the capital of Catalonia and is a modern, vibrant and sophisticated city surrounded by sloping hills and a Mediterranean coastline. Catalan pride and...
Travelling Round Tenerife; The Truth, Warts & All! Part 4.
We left our hotel at 9am. It wasn’t too hot yet. Earlier, we had breakfast. There are no condiments on the tables any more. I asked for salt &...
Karl’s Chronicles Article 40 Add To Cart
A sunken garden leads off sharply from a steep road, winding its way past a series of houses pushed into the hillside. Double sets of white spectacle windows all...
HeyHeyUp! Bilko’s Back – Bigger and Better!
Photos courtesy of Rob Tysall and Steve Everett. Ann Evans reports that Coventry’s Sgt. Bilko Vintage Emporium and Phil Silvers Archival Museum are back in business. Like...
Karl’s Chronicles Article 39 Cut to Service
“Very well-hewn churches excavated from the rock, the likes of which cannot be found anywhere else in the world… I weary of writing more about these buildings because it...
Miniatura’s Little Peep into the Future
Photos by Rob Tysall. The UK’s top dolls house show is hoping their Autumn Show will be a huge success, Ann Evans reports. Like so many shows...
Karl’s Chronicles Article 38 Temples In Ten – Part II
A temple twisting like a helter-skelter while another takes you from debauchery to nirvana in five levels. The concept of religion, with its duties and rituals, has manifested some...
Harry’s Ramblings What’s It Worth
by Harry Pope A couple of years ago a local Eastbourne lady was going to give items to a charity shop. Her friend said ‘try the auction instead.’ They...
Back to Greece, at last! – World Meanderings (n°90)
By Annick Dournes & Frédéric de Poligny After being postponed week after week since the end of the Greek lockdown flights from the UK to the main Greek...
Malta Diary The feast of Illuminations ‘L-Imnarja’ – but this time in a lesser light …
ALBERT FENECH e/mail – Facebook: The 29th of June, date of the feast commemorating Saints Peter and Paul, has been a major event in...
Sussex Snake more than Doubles in Size!
Crowborough in Sussex has the most amazing new Memorial to the Coronavirus and everything else that has been happening lately. It’s a huge snake made up of painted stones....
Karl’s Chronicles Article 37 Temples in Ten – Part 1
Religion has always played a monumental part in shaping humanity, civilizations, politics, culture, dress and behaviour. In fact, it filters down through all levels of functioning society regardless...
Five exclusive live readings of “The Little Prince” to cheer up dreamers throughout the world
By Annick Dournes & Frédéric de Poligny From 29 June to 3 July 2020 Michael Morpugo in collaboration with the “Institut Français du Royaume-Uni” and the “Antoine de Saint...
Harry’s Ramblings, Sherlock Holmes came to Eastbourne
by Harry Pope I had no idea of the number of famous people who have lived in Eastbourne, but there were a lot of them. Sherlock Holmes lived here....
Four acts have new singles out on May 29th
Nuala – Artemisia This Friday sees the release of “Artemisia” by NUALA, the second song to be released from her self-titled debut album. The album, produced by John Reynolds,...
Giant Snake Invades Sussex Town!
Secret Stones are very popular. People paint a small stone and hide it within view where someone is almost definitely going to find it. Then they take it and...
MALTA DIARY: Elaborate and extensive catacombs in Malta and a Punic tomb recently discovered probably dating back to 500 BC
ALBERT FENECH e/mail – Facebook: My Blog: The Carthaginians ruled Malta before they were ousted by the Romans in about 250 BC...
Karl’s Chronicles. Article 32 The Roman Five
Tunisia’s history is as rich as it is varied. A heavy necklace of Muslim dynasties that shaped the land, under the command of outside forces, or like the Fatimids...
A Trio of Cathedrals
Photos by Rob Tysall, Tysall’s Photography. Ann Evans tells us about her home city of Coventry and its three cathedrals. Most people are aware that the City...
Harry’s Ramblings Pier Entertainment
by Harry Pope When Eastbourne’s pier was built in 1870, it was just a promenade out to sea, with no buildings. Unfortunately, the pier suffered severe damage on 1st...