Jamie Whittle's Blog
Moonwalking
About ten years ago or so, I remember a friend describing how she had spent the night of Christmas Eve hiking in the moonlight. Although I had begun trips into…
Live music
There can be punch, balance and deftness in prose and poetry that make me marvel, paintings in whose colours I could willingly drown, angles and light in photography that electrify. …
Zen and the art of being a space cadet
You may have heard the one about the man who went to dip his headlights, and drove his car into a pond. Well this morning was directly in point.
As…
El Rio Speyo
Last Thursday I spent the whole day waist-deep in water. In a strong current, amidst the arcs of sand martins, downblasts and squalls casting different patterns across the surface. Rain…
Beetroot and tanukis
It’s the biggest treat to come across a book whose pages you literally savour one after the other. A delicious, fulfilling experience. For me, it’s the tales of Tom Robbins…