Over the last two years I have visited a number of art galleries and admired some specific impressionist paintings, Here are a few from Berlin’s Neues Museum, the National Museum of Wales, the Musee D’Orsay and the National Museum of Catlan Art (MNAC) in Barcelona.
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It seems Keir Starmer has chosen “Ode to Joy” as his choice as a representative song for the Labour Party, strangely given his “Not in 50 years” position, but it made me wonder who has the best anthem, I have made a little poll, sorry it’s a bit ugly but I don’t pay for the…
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While exploring the idea of visiting Biarritz, I was reminded of a poster I used to have which I misremembered of being of Biarritz. I went looking for it, and discovered the picture I wanted was actually of the Bay of Angels which is in Nice, and was painted by Raoul Dufy, one of whose…
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The timeline and venue’s have been announced, they have also have a web site; Team Inneos, the UK boat is the challenger of record.
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I decided to buy two of Leonid Afremov’s pictures which are being sold by the estate. It’s all quite odd as they have been behaving as if it’s a limited stock fire sale for several years. Anyway, I bought two over the last month at discounted prices although I’ll have to frame them. Here are…
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Xmas us coming, I was on Steam and found ANNO 1880 which looks beautiful, at least in stills. Currently on offer for a very reasonable price. What do others say? I have a look at some reviews. …
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I am trying to expand my recipe book and learn some new curry recipes. I have bookmarked my inspirations in my diigo feed, tagged recipe+curry. Some of the ingredients are not necessarily easy to find and so alternatives are needed. Here are my notes …
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Cross Cultural Management, is this such a thing? Here are my links and notes …
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I thought I’d write something about the America’s cup, due to start later this month. It’s the epitome of Michael Green’s comment in Coarse Sailing, “the only sport where you don’t congratulate the winner when losing, but run into the committee room to complain and get them disqualified”. I was much more interested in the…
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I find it hard to believe, but I have not yet posted my soundtrack of the Internationale which I use as a ring tone to this wiki. Well, here it is! For more see also ringtones and revolution, which talks about the film and Finland Station and explains the featured image.
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The 4 trees is one of Claude Monet‘s famous paintings. I need to do a project on it but I also found some useful comments on copyright on the wikipedia page hosting the image.
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The outlaw Josey Wales A quote from the film Ten Bears: These things you say we will have, we already have. Josey Wales: That’s true. I ain’t promising you nothing extra. I’m just giving you life and you’re giving me life. And I’m saying that men can live together without butchering one another. Ten Bears:…
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