There we were strolling down Marshall Street, Edinburgh in search of Elephants when without wanting this object of desire pulled up beside us in traffic. I immediately dropped to my knees. Not in supplication but to get a better angle of this green machine from Britain’s most exotic (really the only) supercar manufacturer, McLaren. Perhaps […]
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No, not the band but the city from which the Harry Potter stories emerged, Edinburgh. This guy was on a falconer’s arm in the streets as they thronged with festival goers. You can tell by the small pupils that this owl might prefer to be in bed at this time of the day. Still it […]
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The French playwright Molière wrote ‘Tartuffe’ in 1664. Now more than 350 years later this young troupe of performers on the streets of Edinburgh were hawking their performance of Molière’s famous play as part of the Edinburgh Festival. At first I just saw a young group of performers in costume full of the vitality of […]
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Driving home one foggy evening recently I was amazed how all around me the steam and smoke rising from the myriad of factories in and around Port Adelaide seemed to just fill a low horizontal plane across the sky. It was as if someone had placed a gigantic piece of glass over it all and […]
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Entropy is a term commonly used in the physical sciences to describe how when order is created, the cost is paid for by more disorder elsewhere and how ‘things’ tend to higher states of chaos or disorder as time progresses. When this Holden Ute was created, a lot of entropy (chaos) was created elsewhere. This […]
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