When I was in Berlin in mid-September, on a work trip, the office was close to the Museumsinsel, a series of museums on an island in the river that runs through Berlin. I bought a 3-day pass, and although the museums shut at 6 most nights, I was able to spend a bit of time …
Category archives: Art and visual
Gherkins are good for stress
What does your workspace say about you? Mine has a postcard in Polish, claiming that gherkins are good for stress. I haven’t actually tried eating them at work. But probably it’s just the sight of a silly postcard, and a link to Poland, that cheers me up. I work in an open plan environment, which …
Wait for the little green man
Maybe it’s a year of celebrating small pleasures. A medium-sized pleasure was having the chance to be back in Berlin for a few days in September, as the mid-point of my work trip to Germany and Austria. But the small but perfectly formed pleasure is the traffic light men. Some of you may know that …
Raindrops on roses…
I have no objection to whiskers on kittens either. But the coffee pot going on on a Saturday morning, that is indeed one of my favourite things. Channel 4 can get away with a top 50 of programmes on an almost weekly basis, it seems. I don’t think cyberspace needs these from me as well, …
Kandinsky on the beach
We had a beach barbecue as a church in early July, at favourite beach Yellowcraigs, one of the main ones near to Edinburgh. We spent some time digging on the beach with kids. At one point, Dan drew three different pictures with a spade. Having done a certain amount of answering ‘What’s that?’ with this particular …