Just an older gay guy having a late life crisis … travelling and looking at the world and enjoying serendipity and trying to understand myself a little more. Trying to find kindness through random acts
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Catalyst
2022 has been a strange year; my life pivoted in July when I hit an age I never imagined I could be; 70! Then I encountered a much younger man and became madly infatuated with him. He was beautiful, sensitive and so open emotionally. At 70 I never expected such an intense sexual relationship. Older…
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Thinking about Hamnet. No spoilers
My sister and I went to see Hamnet the other day. I found it thoughtful, provocative, harrowing , uplifting and enthralling. I loved the slow narrative pace and the subtle and intricate foreshadowing throughout of events occurring later in the film. As a study in love, the complexity and effects of grief and a sort…
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Samurai Exhibition at British Museum
This was an excellent exhibition exploring Samurai culture from the 12th century to its legacy today. including armour, ceramics, prints and textiles it displayed some gorgeous lacquer work and beautiful clothes. The Edo period was well represented and the period leading from the proscription of Samurai in the 1860s, its development in the 1930s and…
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Lee Miller at Tate Britain
A moving and arresting exhibition covering her work from the 30s to the 50s. Her eye was phenomenal and her technique admirable. from her early work with Vogue through her Surrealist work with Man Ray, wartime photography in London and documentation of the devastating aftermath of the war at Dachau and Buchenwald and her harrowing…
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Lee Miller at Tate Britain
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My month in Florence
Escape to myself 