I Love Taking The Dogs For A Walk, And Every Time I Look At Little Ray He Always Makes Me Smile, Sadly

Happy Birthday Mr N Tesla. On July 10th, 1856, Nikola Tesla was born at midnight during a lightning storm. The midwife thought the violent storm was a bad omen and declared he would be a child of darkness, to which his mother replied, “No. He will be a child of light.“ We seem to have let you down!!!

So there might be another virus coming from China, this time it’s called Nipah and the woman who’s trying to study/stop it is called Supaporn!!! Seriously, I’m not making it up, this would be comedy gold if it wasn’t true!!!

Dupont maki-e Panther lighter, beautifully made. Piece of art

Dogs found a baby, dead, Badger in the woods, they had a good sniff, but otherwise didn't touch it. Very sad to see, I would guess it was poorly or deformed and as a result pushed out of the set/den.

"I merely have to sign an object to creat a piece of art" Duchamp 1917 (or is he taking the piss...) what is art, discuss...

Year ago today my little Ray passed away, today Tallulah and her two other sons Otis and Dexter, took the same” last walk”, I think I may have captured Ray, as an orb, moving on, in the pictures you can see an orb, it moves, even though the camera is still and it changes, the sun came out, I felt this warmth come over me and the orb goes towards the sun...I might be completely wrong but it felt right...RIP Ray, miss you so much little Fup...

RIP yaphet Kotto, a great actor and wow, what films did you act in!!!

plans for the summer

I recently attended the Helene Schjerfbeck exhibition at the RA London, I’m not a great fan of Impressionism so was a little reluctant but glad I did, great little show and worth it for the portraits at least, this one, on the left, I thought looked like Taylor Swift. One happy Otis having just been on a walk this evening.

Had a great time at the Royal Academy summer exhibition, always a good turn out and provokes debates as usual with my better half…!!!