Friend of the Pigeon

New poem (from March): The Green Hop.

The spec. is: print the numbers from 1 to 100, except where a number is divisible by 5, print “Fizz”, and where divisible by 7, print “Buzz”. Where divisible by both, print “Fizz Buzz”.

1 to: 100 do:
[ :i | | fb |
fb := (#((5 'Fizz') (7 'Buzz'))
[...]

I’ve been greatly enjoying reading “Eats, Shoots & Leaves”, by Lynne Truss. I realize that I’m a bit late in coming to this, since its wave of popularity was a while ago, but I greatly recommend it to anyone who cares about writing.
Although the book has been in the house for a long time, I [...]

Last weekend, we went up to Brick Lane / Spitalfields, to see a sample sale of fair trade clothing. There was some nice stuff on show, but the fundamental problem for me is that I don’t need any more t-shirts.
Fair trade clothing for men is basically all about t-shirts. If you’re lucky, you can get [...]

Everything is a question of flow,
and balance.
A river has flow - it moves from one place to another by the path of least resistance, and if there is an obstacle in its path, it swirls around and past it. The swirling of the river is as much the essence of its movement as its flow [...]

Sarah and I couldn’t decide whether to go to the fireworks tonight… so we didn’t, and we can’t quite see any from the house, but we certainly can hear them - there are bangs all the time, and a continuous, background rumble from all around.