Buried Alive - Lawrence Durrell

January 5 2022 · poems lawrence-durrell

Buried Alive, from the book Livia (1978) in The Avignon Quintet.


A poem filling with water,
A woman swimming across it
Believing it a lake,
The words avail so little,
The water has carried them away
Frail as a drypoint the one kiss,
Renovation of a swimmer’s loving.

Attach a penny calendar to …


Melbourne Street Photography - II

Cartier-Bresson

Cartier-Bresson


Exploring the Terra Blockchain with Python

December 28 2021 · tech python terra defi software-engineering

Decentralised Finance (DeFi) has crept into a couple of my go-to podcasts; folks I respect are talking about it so I wanted to learn it for myself. In this post I describe the approach I took to learning the Terra Blockchain. We set aside GUIs and Web Applications and instead interact with it …


Melbourne Street Photography

South Bank

South Bank


An Extract From Monsieur by Lawrence Durrell

December 5 2021 · lawrence-durrell philosophy books

An extract from Monsieur - Or the Prince of Darkness by Lawrence Durrell. Part of The Avignon Quintet.


In those days there were no real suburbs - the desert began almost at the gates of Alexandria and with it of course the damp enervating heat which soaked and bathed one, until one could feel the …