Wednesday, 28 October 2009
Tuesday, 27 October 2009
Runes
This is a larger image of the one below and shows more clearly the drum. of the Sami Shaman.
Further drums with Sami runes.
A German Sami rune key.
Joik
Image of Sami Shaman with his drum.
Sami woman playing a horn.
Sami mother and child.
On a map of Scandinavia you can see Sami country coloured in.
Sami Flag
Yesterday in the evening I started to listening to Joik again. It is a Sami way of singing in a gutteral way. Growing up I of course heard a great deal of Scandinavian folk music and some Joik too.
It is very gripping and I kept on listening and also looking for some examples of Sami instrumental music.
I include here in this post some images I found.
Monday, 26 October 2009
Sloe Gin
Today was sunny and warm after a weekend of stormy weather.
Josephine and Deborah came to tea travelling up here from south of Hexham.
It was lovely to see them. After tea they went for a long walk up to the Childhood View site. Then they returned for a salmon open-faced sandwich Swedish style and drop scones with more tea.
Deborah mentioned that they had seen many sloe bushes along the lanes, another name is blackthorn, and that one can make sloe gin from the berries after the first frost. Well we have had our first frost a week or so ago so I shall go out and pick some berries next sunny day and make sloe gin to give away as gifts for Xmas. Great idea. I like to make things to give away. One year it was raspberry vinegar, another green tomato chutney, garlic infused olive oil etc.
It was so nice to have company and we enjoyed chatting about this and that, and I gave them a couple of poetry anthologies. Soul Food for Deborah and Earth Shattering for Josephine.
We decided to make it a more regular occurrence meeting up together the girls from the fells.
Josephine and Deborah came to tea travelling up here from south of Hexham.
It was lovely to see them. After tea they went for a long walk up to the Childhood View site. Then they returned for a salmon open-faced sandwich Swedish style and drop scones with more tea.
Deborah mentioned that they had seen many sloe bushes along the lanes, another name is blackthorn, and that one can make sloe gin from the berries after the first frost. Well we have had our first frost a week or so ago so I shall go out and pick some berries next sunny day and make sloe gin to give away as gifts for Xmas. Great idea. I like to make things to give away. One year it was raspberry vinegar, another green tomato chutney, garlic infused olive oil etc.
It was so nice to have company and we enjoyed chatting about this and that, and I gave them a couple of poetry anthologies. Soul Food for Deborah and Earth Shattering for Josephine.
We decided to make it a more regular occurrence meeting up together the girls from the fells.
Sunday, 25 October 2009
The Pineapple
Is a neighbourhood pub on Leverton St in Kentish Town. We went to see a friend there and we were a wee bit early so we dropped into the Pineapple for a drink.
Low-key, nice place, not too noisy, even has a garden and a restaurant area. If you find yourself in KT why not check it out?
To surreal or not
Poster image for Angels of Anarchy an exhibition of Women Surrealists at Manchester Art Gallery. It is a Francesca Woodman photo. I will see this show in Nov.
Fur gloves designed by Meret Oppenheim.
This is the poster image for the exhibition in Paris at Centre Pompidou of Surrealism and Photography which is open until Jan 11th 2010 I believe. I am planning to see it in Dec.
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