Category Archives: Everyday
Going Round in Circles
For years now, Harry Beck’s angular London Transport tube map has been the seminal example of how to diagram transport systems. However, the system is much more complex now than when it began … Continue reading
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End of the Day
Among the schoolkids playing football, and the Mexicans and Gringos just wandering around or sitting beneath the trees, there are always some regulars that we see in the Jardin every evening. This elderly woman, nearly bent double with rickets, makes … Continue reading
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The Yellow Peril
What to do with 444 copies of National Geographic magazine? They seem too nice to chuck away, but where the hell do you put them? I discovered this great cabinet in Dr Gerry Acevedo’s waiting room (he’s our dentist) in San … Continue reading
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Viva Whoever
Emiliano Zapata, Pancho Villa, Francisco Madero ? Not sure who this lot were followers of, but I found this photo pinned to the wall in Jorge’s barber shop on Animas this week here in San Miguel. Maybe just employees of the … Continue reading
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Mexico’s Star Wars Initiative
Not to be outdone by President Reagan’s 1983 Star Wars Initiative, Mexican Special Forces operatives disguised some of their troops as Chewbacca, at immediate standby to scare the crap out of any military invaders. Unfortunately, they are not effective for … Continue reading
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Spaced-Out
It is difficult to imagine a publisher tolerating bad grammar or the mis-use of vocabulary in the content of a book, so why would they accept the equivalent thing graphically on the jacket? The concept here is fine. The use … Continue reading
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Xmas Exercise
This wandered in over the internet, and sadly, its originator remains unknown. I would love to have credited it. Anyway, Feliz Navidad.
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Christmas Fare?
This eight (seven, six? – I never can work out what counts and what doesn’t) -pointer was comfortably grazing below my studio window in Stone Ridge last week as the crack of rifles could be heard not far away in … Continue reading
Armless Enough
Why doesn’t Our Lady of Loreto have any arms? Funny you should ask. In 1291, fearing the imminent attack of the Turks, Our Lady of Loreto picked up the house in Nazareth in which Mary was born (somewhat upgraded here … Continue reading
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Corny Constable Sunset
After a somewhat unusual (as usual) summer so far, the weather in the Bajío here in Mexico has returned to the typical brilliant blue skies with hot afternoons and cool evening breezes, and the usual dramatic sunset skies that Constable … Continue reading
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