Sympathy for the bees

I've never been stung by a bee, just wasps, many wasps, many times. I forgive them. Bees seems more peaceful and generally have a good, wholesome image. Focused, busy, industrious,  loyal and of course they make honey, eventually. So these bees that have newly moved into this nearby field are a bit like tiny, grazing flying farm animals though they will not produce meat, milk or wool. Nobody eats bees or wears their fur (?). I wonder how quickly they will settle down. Will they be disorientated, homesick or upset? Will they explore and come over to our garden(s) and try out the tulips and daffs that are popping open? Will they just invade the field, there before them like a great golden Asda that they can shoplift from at will, strip the shelves, lay waste, bring it all back home, gorge themselves and get fat with no adverse consequences? Get shouting drunk on nectar? Some days it must be good to be a bee.

Cairneyhill Crunch

Cairneyhill Crunch is a local delicacy first made up in the 12th century by local monks from nearby St Margaret's Abbey and offered to pilgrims as a light  snack as they traveled across the Fife Path of Pestilence looking out for a good beating. It's now going through a mini revival at cafes and eateries in the small town and is seen as a type of "street food", very fashionable amongst the young these days. The traditional recipe still requires that only the best corn flakes and dessicated coconut are used in the complex baking process. There's also a mystery ingredient. No one knows quite what it is. It's also thought to be one of the earliest examples of an edible microwave dessert and it has inspired many quaint folk songs, dirty inky block prints, electric guitar tones and abstract arty poems over the years.

Numerous families of travelling gypsy bees have moved into the field next door. I presume that they intend to dine out on the large amounts of Rape-Seed pollen that is dustily powdering itself across the landscape these days like a fine shower of sweet cocaine. Always nice to have new neighbours, particularly hard working ones that may well survive to sting, irritate and drive away any fly-tippers or over enthusiastic courting couples. 

Nothing is satisfactory

Nothing is satisfactory. Even a super massive black hole, impressive as it is and impressive as it is to have actually been found and photographed, is a little hard to take in. Do I understand any of it? No. Can I actually comprehend the meaning and significance of it? No. Is it God's eye or arse hole? Blowed if I know. It's a big crazy thing up in space that I actually do not have any terms of reference to describe, (other than dumb ass Sci-Fi film and reading experiences). None of these are quite good enough to adequately tell to my feeble brain what is actually going on. "Careful not to step in that black hole son, no good will come of it". Perhaps the Chinese will arrange a trip there, maybe Donald Trump will fund an expedition to see if it's good place to sent refugees to, the Russians might just claim it for possible mineral rights. The greedy dreamers will continue to dream, hold on to their illusions of power as they are dwarfed and ridiculed by the sheer size and magnitude of what's out there.

I actually knew that it was there all the time, I just kept quiet about it. Seemed like the right thing to do. Glad it's all out in the open now.

Feeling discomfort

Sometimes I think, "that's the kind of thing that could only happen in China/the Far East (or to be fair some other far away place I've never visited)". I read the news today, oh boy. So four tiny bees living on human tears in the eye of a Taiwanese woman. The tiny sweat bees nest in the mountains or near to grave sites ... it's a strange horror story that writes itself albeit once the bees were found and removed the woman's sight was saved etc. etc. In a fantasy story the arc would've been far longer and even more horrendous. Graves, bees, tears, feeding, parasite, stinging, eyes, metaphors, horror, revenge, plague, blindness; just for starters. Maybe it never really happened.

You can never put your foot in the same river twice

It's coming on Christmas
They're cutting down trees
They're putting up reindeer
And singing songs of joy and peace
Oh I wish I had a river I could skate away on

But it don't snow here
It stays pretty green
I'm going to make a lot of money
Then I'm going to quit this crazy scene
Oh I wish I had a river I could skate away on

I wish I had a river so long
I would teach my feet to fly
I wish I had a river I could skate away on
I made my baby cry

He tried hard to help me
You know, he put me at ease
And he loved me so naughty
Made me weak in the knees
Oh, I wish I had a river I could skate away on

I'm so hard to handle
I'm selfish and I'm sad
Now I've gone and lost the best baby
That I ever had
I wish I had a river I could skate away on

Oh, I wish I had a river so long
I would teach my feet to fly
I wish I had a river
I could skate away on
I made my baby say goodbye

It's coming on Christmas
They're cutting down trees
They're putting up reindeer
And singing songs of joy and peace
I wish I had a river I could skate away on

Joni M for Christine M. RIP.

Chips

Chips, just chips, nice crunchy ones, not too dry, not too moist, not too large a portion. Fish, battered again not greasy or chewy. Just about right really. Also avoiding the added salt, sauce and vinegar and just allowing the natural tastes to emerge. So that was an enjoyable tea in Aberdeen with some of my grandchildren on Saturday, grub from Oor Wullies fish and chip shop. Run by an Irish family in Aberdeen so no obvious cultural connection with the DDW comic strip hero but the food's good. Life's simple pleasures are the best.

Photos of ghosts

Modern art from recent history. Ghosts on print, Polaroid spirits. History: that thing we create every day but only recognize when other people tell us about their version of it. What they saw, felt, maybe even did and we nod and play along. It sounds kinda familiar so it must be right. Some people even take photographs, this creates history immediately but in order to become "proper" history those photographs need to be published or exhibited. Black and white renditions are most effective here, they evoke the past in all it's veiled mystery. This usually happens when the photographer is conveniently dead. This blurs any proper meaning and allows others to decide what might have been going on and what the picture is actually about. Ultimately history is about the dislocation of past and present and the dysfunction of memory and meaning so as to create a fictional past that serves the writer's best interests. It's much more convenient this way, also PhDs can be written, papers and diaries, books and documentaries, while the dead sleep a) in death or b) as images in photographs. That's just how it is and none of us will ever know the truth.

Rainhead

Rainhead, raintown, raincountry, raincontinent, rainworld, rain universe. Well not exactly but it sometimes seems way when you've the snuffles, the sneezes and it's raining most of the day.

Medieval Music 2

So, in a bid to break my listening patterns (for the better) I spent the afternoon driving out to St Andrews listening to more medieval music (the tunes are all very short and kind of clipped). The theory being it's a purge for my listening system (ears) and habits that might remove the scars from the sycophantic afternoon pap on most talk radio and the dreary music elsewhere out on the daytime "music" spectrum. Well of course a lot of medieval music is dreary too, kind of tuneless, modal and simple but in it's day it delighted the crowned heads of Europe and provided a backdrop to courtly ceremony and gatherings. It's really strange to think about that and how it must have all been, scratchy and wooden. Like having bad buskers practicing in your house whilst complete strangers came and went, quaffing your ale and stealing your sheep. But there is something nice about it, something raw, clumsy and very human (as human as you can be whilst the royal court looks on). These guys were doing their level best to entertain and also avoid disapproval and who knows what as a punishment. You can sense that they'd like to add fun to the mix but at the same time not cause offence or an upset. It's strained and all a bit tense. At any moment the Spanish Inquisition might well burst in and fracture your lute, poke you with your flute and then cast you into a pit with irons around your ankles. All for a bum note or a burst string that can't be fixed until you kill a passing cat. Then there's the general disapproval of the mighty church and it's officials  to contend with. Tough gig.

Medieval

Everything's gone medieval these days, or at least it's headed that way. Forget civilization and the renaissance, forget science and progress, forget listening and being reasonable. We're back to wooden heads and wooden music in a pre-enlightenment loop. "Burn down the ballot boxes and hang the reasonable people" say the disagreeable people. Well the wooden music's OK, the wooden headedness takes a bit more getting used to. I liked it better when there was a bit more tolerance and democracy, less arguments about vaccinations and indicative votes and sugar was a reasonable enough ingredient. It only seems like yesterday, now nobody can agree about anything (not sure when people actually agreed about stuff but it must've happened at one time in recent history). Yesterday everything also turned into April, didn't see that coming.

Here's why...

...there's more than a few problems in Scottish football. Firstly the guy that throws the punch doesn't get sent off there and then (or arrested) and the guy that took the punch is an infamous wind up merchant who goads the (stupidly dumb) opposition until they crack. He then plays the victim. Actually I take all that back, this is in fact a sophisticated populist drama, as written by William Shakespeare and illustrated by Jack Kirby or Steve Ditko back in the golden days of Marvel Comics. As you were; it's high art, we're all just watching it in the wrong venue and viewing through the wrong medium.

Big Issue: Killer Bunnies

In the case of this post the title is even more irrelevant than usual. Big Issue? Killer Bunnies? I just liked the way the words meshed, the usual story. Interesting titles don't make for interesting blog reading and, I'm pretty clear on this, this isn't all that interesting reading. Basically it's an experiment in art and drivel that began many years ago and has run, sporadically and inconsistently since. It's a strange compulsion, a cathartic exercise in the recording of the important and the absurd, in no particular order. The Big Issue cover is there because a) I just bought one and b) the artist himself congratulated me on my purchase.

This of course brings me on to the depiction of "killer bunnies" in medieval artwork, it was a thing then, nobody is quite sure why. They appear as doodles and pre-cartoon cartoons in the margins of manuscripts. Perhaps it was simply for comedic effect. For some reason the art world has chosen not to repeat it despite the many circles and cycles of creativity that have wormed their way around our universe. Maybe it's the next big thing. Patreons look out.

Daft bikes in gardens

Odd urban artworks: Why do people put home made "arty" bike things up in their gardens? Asking for a friend.

Remains of the day

The broken concrete and stone skeleton of the old tidal swimming pool at Pittenweem, Fife. Obviously abandoned for some time but strangely it probably wouldn't take much to get it back in order. Sea water swimming is popular here and there (not with me) and it could be done safely (?) in this pool, for kids mostly. Anyway it won't happen. I did like to imagine how it might have been with seats, boards and steps, an ice cream booth and some primitive changing areas, back in the day this was all a big deal around the coastal towns. Maybe Brexit stay-cations will bring some of these places back, but only for the brave.

A few minutes after wandering past this pool I bumped into local lad Phil Jupitus and had a brief chat, mostly reminding him of our glorious victory in the "Rip it up" Pop Quiz late last year. Funnily enough he was busy making up arty prints from card and seaweed. Who knew that this was a thing? 

Words and numbers

Here's a list of some words and numbers I've been using recently:

£5, 100 metres, 100 years, 1000 years, 10cc, 11 plus, 16, 1797, 17th Century, 1955, 1960s, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1980, 200 years, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2049, 3D, 4 tracks, 40 years, 44, 48 years, 4th July, 4x4, 50, 60s, 62, 70s, 80s, 90, 911, 99%, 996, 9th April, A space odyssey, A985, AA, Aberdeen, abject failure, above, absolute, absurd, accident., accidents, acid, actions, actress, admin, Admiral, adult, advertisments, advice, affected, Africa, aftermath, age, ageing, AI, aimed lower, Air Kisses, airbrushed, aired, airport, airstrike, AL, Alan Partridge, Alaska, album, albums, Aldi, alert, Alexia, Ali, Aliens, alive, all seeing, all year, allan keys, alone, alpacas, alternatives, Amazon, ambient, Amelia, amen, America, Amey, amps, analogue man, ancient, android, angry, angst, Angus, animals, ankle, annual, anonymous, Anstruther, ants. leaves, anxiety, anymore, app, apple crumble, apple juice, apples, april, Arctic, arena, areoplanes, Argus, arrow, arse, art, Art Deco, art school, art shop, artisan, artist, artistic, arty, as seen, asian, ASMR, aspire, asteroid, astro turf, Atlantic, aubergine, auction, Audrey Hepburn, August, austerity, Austin 7, auto, autograph, autumn, avacado, avoid, awards, awful, awkward, axe, axis, Axl, Aztec, baby, back, bacon, bacon roll, bad, bad day, bag, balancing, ball, Ballard, ballet, banana, Bananarama Fran and Anna, bandage, bandcamp, Banff, bangers, bank card, bankrupt, banks, barbecue, barber, barcodes, barren, base, basement, bases, basket, Bath, battery, battles. 2019, BBC, BBC2, BBC4, BBC6, beach, Bear, Beard, beards, bearing, bears, beasts, Beatles, Beck, beef, beeps, beer, bees, Beetlejuice, beetroot, being idle, being tall, being watched. FBI, believe, below, Ben Nevis, benign, best group, better, better hearing, big, Big A, Big Bang, Big Heads, big money, big screen, bigger plan, bike, Bilbao, bingo, bins, bird, bird feeders, bird house, birds, birthday, biscuit, black, black and white, Black Friday, black hole, Bladerunner, Blair Witch, blame, bleak, blemish, bloated, blockage, blocked driveway, blog, blogging, blood, blood donor, BLT, blue, blue sky, blue tits, blue tooth, blues, BO, boat, Bob Dylan, bold, bollocks, bollox, bonfire, bonus, Boo, book, books, BOOM, bored, bot, bots, boulders, Bournes, bow, bowling, Box, break, breakdown, breakfast, breathe, breeding, Brewdog, Brexit, bricks, bridge, bridges, Bridget Bardot, brilliant, Britannia, British, Brits, broccoli, broken, Broons, bruise, Brunel, brush, BT, Bubble Tea, Buddha, Buddhist, budget, buffoons, build up, builders, building, buildings, bulk, bullet, bully, bunny, burger, burgers, burn, burned out, bus, bus pass, bushfire, business, business model, busy, butterflies, butterfly, button, buy, buying, C&W, cabbage, cactus, Cadbury, cafe, cafes, caffita, Caird Hall, cake, calm, Cambridge Analytica, cameras, Canada, canal, cancer, candidate, candles, cane, Canon, cans, car, car ferry, car wash, caravan, cards, care, career, careful, cargo, carry out, cars, cartoon, cartoon dog, cassettes, cat, cat cafe, cat chicken, cat face, cat flap, cat food, cat photo, catfood, cats, cauliflower, caves, CBQ, CD, Cds, celebs, central heating, Central Scotland, centre, chair, chance, change, chaos, chap, chapel, charger, charity, charlie, cheese, chemicals, cherries, chicken, childhood, children, chilli, chilly, chimney, Chinese, chips, chocolate, choice, chorus, Christ, Christmas, church, CIA, cider, cinema, citrus fruits, city, civilisation, Clapton, class, classic, cleaning, cleanse, clearing, clench, clever, cliff edge, climate, clingfilm, clocks, clocks go back, clouds, clunkers, clutter, coast, cocaine, cockletrees, Coconut, coconut oil, coconut water, code, codes, coffee, cognitive dissonance, cogs, Cohen, coins, cola, cold, Coldwar Steve, collage, collections, colony, Colorado, colors, colour, colours, comedy, comet, comic art, comics, comment, common sense, compliant, complicated, composition, compost, conceptual, confidence, conflict, confusion, connections, consequences, contemporary arts, content, contest, context, contradictions, control, conversations, cooking, cool, cooler, cops, cosplay, Costa, costs, cottage industry, couch, council, countdown, cover, Cowdenbeath, coy, crabs, crack, Crammond, Cranberries, crane, crayfish, crayons, crazy, creaking, cream cakes, creation, credit card, creepy, creme brulee, criminal, crisp, CRM, Croatia, Crombie, Crombie Point, crop, Crossing, crow, crowdfund, crowds, crows, cruel, cruise, CSN, Cubase, Culross, culture, Cumbernauld, cup holder, curds, curiosity, curse, cut, cyberman, cybermen, daffodils, daft, Daily Mail, Daily Pallet, daily photo, Daily Planet, Daily Spacecraft, Dalai Lama, Dalgety Bay, Dali, damage, damp, dance, dancing, Dang, dangerous, Danny Boyle, dark, Dark Age, darker, darkness, Das Boot, data, dates, David Hepworth, day, daylight, days, dead, deal, deals, death, decaf, decay, December, decluterring, deep, deer, deluded, Denmark, dennis hopper, dentist, depression, design, destination, destiny, devil, diamond dolls, die, diesel, diet, difference, digital, dill, dimensions, direction, dirty, Discovery, dishwasher, dislocation, Disney, ditch, DIY, django, djembe, doctor, documents, dodger, dog, dog walkers, dogfood, dogs, dogwalkers, doing nothing, dollars, Dolores, don't go, Donald Fagen, donuts, Doodle, doodles, doors, doorway, double, downloads, Dr Who, dragon, dram, drama, drawings, Dreamies, dreams, dress, drift, drink, drone, drowned town, drugs, drum, drum machine, drums, drunk, drunken, drunks, Dry, dry mouth, drywall, Dublin, duke, dull, Dunbar, Dundee, Dunfermline, Dunmore, dust cloud, DVLA, dwarf planet, dyno-rod, early morning, earth, east, East Neuk, Easter Eggs, Eastern, easy, Easy Rider, eat them, eaten, eBay, echo chamber, economy of scales, ECU, Eden, edge, Edinburgh, Edinburgh daily photo, education, effects, effort, eggs, Egypt, Einstein, Eire, Ekaterina, election, Electorate, electricity, elements, elsewhere, emails, embedded, emergency, emotions, empty, Ena Sharples, end, endings, endless evenings, enegry, energy, engineering, engines, England, english, enjoy life, enterprises, envy, EP, epiphany, episode, equations, equator, error, errors, escape, etc, eternal, eternal youth, Etsy, EU, Europe, Eurovision, evaporated, Eve, evening, everyday things, evil, evolution, exhaust, Exhibit, exhibition, existential, exits, expected, experiences, expiry, eye, fabric, Facebook, faces, fact, factory, fail, failure of components, fairy lights, fake, fake news, fakes, fall, family, fans, fantasy, far east, farewell, farm shop, farm shops, farmers, fashion, fast food, fat, fat guy, fat-berg, fate, faults, fear, fee, feeders, female vocals, feminist, fence, Fender, festival, fete, Fibonacci, fibre, fiction, field, fields, Fife, fifty, figs, film, films, finance, fine, fine art, fire, Fire and Fury, firelighters, fireworks, first world problems, Firth of Forth, fish, fishing, fit, Fitzcarraldo, fiveguys, fix, flakey, flares, flat earth, flat white, flavour, flawed, Fleabag, float, flowers, floyd rose, fluid, FM, food, foodbanks, footballs, footering, forgetful, formation, forms, Forth, Forth Bridges, forts, found, four days, fourths, foyer, fracking, fragile, France, Fraser Drummond, freak, free, freedom, freelance, freezer, freezer bags, freezing, French, French toast, frenzy, fresh, fresh breath, Freud, Friday, fried egg, friends, fright, fritter, frozen, fruit, frustration, FT, fuck all, fun, funeral, fungus, funky, funny, future, Future Islands, G spot, gables, gallery, Game of Thrones, gantry, Gap of Dunloe, garage, garden, garden centre, garden storm, Gary Numan, gate, geese, genius, genre, German, Germany, germs, Getty, Ghibli, ghost, ghosts, giant, giant. goose. crow, gibberish, gif, GIFs, giggles, giggling, Gimme Shelter, Ginger Baker, glare, Glasgow, glass, glasses, Glen Esk, Glenrothes, glitch, global, global warming, gloom, gloomy, glorious, glory days, glossy, gloves, glow, glowing, gluten, Glynis Johns, go, goat, goats, god, goddess, going out, gold, golden time, Goldfrapp, gone, good health, good old days, good weather, google, gorilla, GoT, Goth, government, graduation, graffiti, Grammys, grannies, grapes, graphic, graphs, grass, graves, gravity, graze, greasy spoon, Great Pumpkin, greed, greedy, Greek, green, green laser, green tea, grey, grizzly, Groot, groups, grout, grumble, guilt, guilty, guitar, guitar serial number, guitars, gulls, Gumtree, gunge, gunk, guns, gutter, gutters, GWR, hack, haggis, hair, haircut, hairy, Halley, hallowed, hammock, hands, hangovers, happiness, happy, harbour, Harbour Lane, Hardy, Harpo Marx, harvest, hats, hazy, head bumps, head injuries, headstone, health, heard, heart and soul, heat, heating, heaven, heavy, heavy metal, hedgehog, height, heights, hejira, helicopter, hell, Helleborus, help, Hemingway, Hendrix, herbal remedies, herbs, heritage, herring, Herzog, hi-vis, high tide, highland, hills, hip hop, hipster, hissy, history, Hitchens, hmm, hold back, holding list, holiday, Holloway, holy spirit, home, home grown, honest, honey, honking, hope, Hopetoun, Horn, horses, hospital, hot, hot dogs, Hot Rats, Hot weather, hotel, Hotspur, House, houses, hover, how i hate, Howson, huddle, human, humanity, humiliation, humour, hunger, hungry, hungry cat, Huxley, hypnosis, ice, ice wall, Iceland, icy, ideas, IKEA, image, images, immature, immune, implants, Impossible Planet, impossible songs, impossibles, impossiblesongs, imposters, IMS, IMS Bearing, in another world, incontinence, independence, Indian, indie, industrial, industry, INEOS, infusion, injury, injustice, ink, inlet pipe, insane, inside, inspiration, Instagram, instructions, interaction, internet, internet art, internet failure, interview, intrusive thoughts, iplayer, Ireland, iron, iron mask, ironic, ironwork, island, issues, IT, Italy, itchy, iTunes, ivy, J&MC, Jack Kirby, jacket, jam, Jamendo, jangle pop, January, Japan, jar, jazz, Jeanne Moreau, Jeremy, Jesus, jigsaw, Jimmy Reid, Jimny, job, jobs, John Bonham, John Cooper Clarke, John Farrell, John Misty, Jolene Lia, Joni, jonny cash, Jordan Peterson, judgement, judging, Jules Verne, June 8th, jungle, Jupiter, Jura, Karftwerk, karma, Keys, Kezia Dugdale, Kia, kids, Kiki, kill, Killarney, killing, kimchi, kindling, King Crimson, Kinks, kit kats, kitchen, kitten, kittens, Knausgaard, knee jerk, Knitted Bunny, Knockhill, knot, know, knowledge, Korea, Kraut, Kubrick, Kula Shaker, Kylo, Labels, Labour, Labrador, ladders, lambda, land, landscape, lap, Lapsang Souchong, laptop, last days, last week, late, launch, laundromat, Laurel, Laurie Lee, lazy, lazy. low input, leaders, League, leak, leather, leaves, lecture, Led Zeppelin, legend, Lego, lemmings, Leonardo, lesbian, lets make pearls, letter, lies, life, life cycle, light, lighthouse, like, Limekilns, limp, linen, Lionel Bart, list, listen, listeners, lists, litter, Liv, live, live streams, lives, living, lobster, local, Loch Leven, Loghnagar, logic, logistics, logs, Loki, London, long afternoons, long game, look, looked after, looking, looms, loss, lost, lost girls, lost souls, Lothians, lottery, lotus, love, low output, LPs, luck, lunar, lunatic, lunch, lyrics, M&S, M50, Mac, Macduff, machine, machine heads, machinery, machines, magic, magnet, make a difference, mamafubu, man, Man child, managers, mantra, maps, marathon, Mark E 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