Thursday, August 17, 2006

In the Biblical sense


Does anyone have a laugh in the Bible? I don't mean do they rejoice or sound the trumpets with gladness or any of that but is there any mucking about at all? Or is there any play-acting for pleasure? Do they have performances of anything? And again, not feigning weakness like Samson or dissembling love so you can cut off someone's head like Judith. Does anyone know? I wondered idly today. I'm reading Peter Ackroyd's Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem and I've just got to a bit about the power of the Victorian music-hall over the Bible-soaked imaginations of the poor. Stirring stuff.

Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Isle of Mull

Here are a few photos of the beautiful Isle of Mull. You can see some more at Isle of Mull



The sprinkle brigade

This is rather disturbing.