a portable life museum
Dear All
As of 11.01.2017 this website has moved to a new location at:
I really hope you’ll continue the journey with me in it’s new home.
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I hope to see you there!
Thanks and best wishes
Nick
Please note that the doors to the museum are now closed for the Festive Season and will re-open in the New Year
Please visit the Quote Gallery (above) for other illustrated quotations.
By chance I came across this recent and detailed map of the River Brent on the brentcatchmentrivers website and, for the first time, felt more able to visualise the river in all its sinuous complexity.
The narrative potential is huge. Looking at the tributaries and reading their names made me determined to pack a bag with maps and camera and notebook, and get out there.
I’ve a feeling there are a load of stories to be uncovered along the backwaters of this half-hidden and oft-neglected river.
Red Shift, 1973, is formed from the jagged pieces of three interlinked narratives. It is, by turns, unnerving, distressing and, in parts, oddly romantic. Each narrative’s timeline, though separated by a thousand years, is ‘present’ throughout. Linear ‘tick-tock’ time does not exist, but is interwoven and contemporaneous. Red Shift is an interpretation of time travel, but travel of an inner and psychic form. It makes for a destabilising, unnerving read.
Please visit the Quote Gallery (above) for other illustrated quotations.
“The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.”
Alvin Toffler
The challenges that arise from change are common, and change happens often. Every time we turn around, it seems that the familiar has become un-familiar. Coping is both daunting and exhausting. Many people feel pressured to keep up.
