A journey round my father

Life dispersed in small things forgotten Funeral We buried him in the cemetery at Blyth (in the north-east of England) overlooking the beach in the plot where my mother has lain since 1999. It was a bleak place back then. Twenty five years have seen the trees and hedges mature. The watery sunshine of that…

Bewick’s dog

One of Bewick’s woodcuts shows a dog reacting to faces and monstrous creatures seen in some trees at night. (Thomas Bewick (c. 11 August 1753 – 8 November 1828) — wood-engraver and natural history author working in the north-east of England, long the focus of my archaeological research.) Pareidolia — seeing faces in things (and…