On the intelligence of meese

Oslo resident, Graham Dukes, encounters a single minded moose. Last Thursday our local moose came plodding out of the woods towards our garden fence. He usually drops in once a week or so when no-one is around, but this time I was out painting the balcony, so I put down my brush and leaned out…

One man’s rubbish…

Oslo residents Elisabet Helsing & Graham Dukes have a rubbish day out You remember the dear old dustbin? Back in the forties all our good parents had one, just out of sight beyond the kitchen window. It was mostly filled with the greyish powder left after a good blaze in the kitchen grate, but anything…

Reverting to type

Elizabet Helsing and husband Graham Dukes appear to be typing a letter.. It was several decades ago that we first ran into the concept of processing.  At that time it was applied to cheese; processed cheese looked like soap and tasted much the same. Later on they processed foods in general,  textiles and goodness knows…

A sense of space and time

Doesn’t everyone occasionally indulge in escapism? However rewarding life may be, we may want to slip away from it, now and again, just for a while. The one solemnly meditates; the other just daydreams. I admit to having tried at some such moments to slip into another dimension. The microscope provided a glimpse of the…