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Dai Lowe @dailowe.bsky.social · 3d

Could be it. We're good at that

Dai Lowe @dailowe.bsky.social · 4d

UK ditched daylight saving in the late 60s (if memory serves) but reinstated it c1972. No idea why; I was busy with my studies (ie drunk)

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Dai Lowe @dailowe.bsky.social · 4d

Feliz Dia de los Muertos a todos
Tacos for tea!
Blast from the past - my catalogue for the 2003 exhibition at London's Mexico Gallery
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Cover of the catalogue for the 2003 Day of the Dead exhibition in London's Mexico Gallery

5 filled tacos with guacamole and soured crram sides

Dai Lowe @dailowe.bsky.social · 21d

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Dai Lowe @dailowe.bsky.social · Sep 28

First foray into AI generation of pics for old pomes

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Dai Lowe @dailowe.bsky.social · Sep 26

The joys of 3D printing
And magic

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Dai Lowe @dailowe.bsky.social · Sep 11

200 years after the first railway passenger service was inaugurated, the 1420 from Stockton finally arrives at Darlington, on the opposite platform to my Azuma from Edinburgh (my original train was cancelled, of course)

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Dai Lowe @dailowe.bsky.social · Aug 12

Shades of Thor Heyerdahl in my youth.
Happy Birthday! xxx

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Dai Lowe @dailowe.bsky.social · Aug 11

New hobby?
Fukintsugi, the ancient Japanese art of repairing broken pots with gold and lots of swearing, finishing with "Fuk it, that'll have to do!"

Dai Lowe @dailowe.bsky.social · Jul 17

We'll call him Hugh!

Dai Lowe @dailowe.bsky.social · Jul 15

Messing with sex manuals for my current project...

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Dai Lowe @dailowe.bsky.social · Jun 16

More #Surrealist #Spanish #poetry.
You were missing it, weren't you?
Oh well, please yourselves.

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Soy Laurel, soy el jardinero

A long piece by Carlos this time, originally printed by by J Albi and J Fuster of Verbo, in their Antologia del surrealismo español, en Verbo 23-25 (1952). Ode to the Gardens to Carlos Ferreira Tor…

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Dai Lowe @dailowe.bsky.social · Jun 11

Up on the rooooof
(not acrophobic old me, the roofer)

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Dai Lowe @dailowe.bsky.social · May 28

Bisexual #Mexican nun predicts antisocial media wars from 400 years ago
#SorJuana
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Let’s Pretend …

Dominique Sanda and Assumpta Serna in Yo, la peor de todas (Argentina 1990) If you read or even glanced at my previous post, you’ll have seen I went on at excessive length about why and how I…

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Dai Lowe @dailowe.bsky.social · May 27

Lengthy and tedious waffle about the poem that will be in the next blog post.
#SorJuana #translation
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I’m Right, You’re Stupid

Let’s take another break from Spanish post-surrealism and travel to Baroque, Seventeenth Century Mexico once more. In a double instalment: first, here, the waffle; second, soonly, the pome! R…

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Dai Lowe @dailowe.bsky.social · Apr 17

Couldn't resist the tweak to Lazarus' last line 😉

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Dai Lowe @dailowe.bsky.social · Apr 16

Tangy Risotto Milanese, with Amalfi cedro lemon, courgette, crisped prosciutto, parmesan cheese and saffron. And a salad with cedro pith.
Yeth, it ith ecthelent

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Dai Lowe @dailowe.bsky.social · Apr 14

Sonnets all done! Sense of achievement and relief.
#SpanishPoetry #translation #poetry
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“We done the bugger!”

…as Sherpa Tenzing Norgay is reputed to have said, having just come down from the summit of Mount Everest/Qomolangma. I know how he felt. Twelve weeks and two days ago, dear reader, I posted …

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Dai Lowe @dailowe.bsky.social · Apr 13

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Cry me a Rio

Nearly there — this is the penultimate Sonnet of Carlos Edmundo de Ory’s set, published in 1960. Subscribe now to see the lot build up and, well, whatever comes after. As the man himself said…

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Dai Lowe @dailowe.bsky.social · Apr 10

Sonnet thirteen of fifteen. Unlucky?
#translation #poetry #CarlosEdmundodeOry
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Mala suerte esta voz

Yes, it’s sonnet 13, unlucky for some? Only two to go… I’ve been sitting in the cemetery, pondering rhymes… [This voice this blood…]This voice this blood that calls your sac…

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Dai Lowe @dailowe.bsky.social · Apr 9

For the cognoscenti, it's a Balasun from Kurseong on the river Balason in W Bengal. 3-4 minutes 95°C

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Dai Lowe @dailowe.bsky.social · Apr 9

Just bought a very nice second flush Darjeeling,
Reminds me, on Lucy's birthday, of our little impromptu exchange, all of 38 years ago:

Her: Tea, Darling?
Me: Darjeeling!
[a few minutes later, presenting m with a cuppa]
Her: Cha dealing!

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. Sigh

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Dai Lowe @dailowe.bsky.social · Apr 9

Sonnet Twelve. Three to go...
#poetry #translation #spanish
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Back to the Action: Soneto doce

Without more ado, and to mark the birthday of the wonderful but absent Rucyrucyrucyrucy, allow me to present something about dissolving throats. Other tasks will now distract me, as I do my volunte…

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Dai Lowe @dailowe.bsky.social · Apr 4

And today's pomes is...

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Little Bit Louder, Little Bit Worse

XI [I am a sleeper now…]I am a sleeper now alone requiredattendant on the closed dreams of your flight…I won’t with your acquired flesh reunitethat my so sinful flesh in turn acquiredIn…

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Dai Lowe @dailowe.bsky.social · Apr 2

Another sonnet by Carlos Edmundo. Only six to go!
#deOry #poetry #sonnets #spanish

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Who was Maria? What was she?

It’s always interesting to consider the biographical aspects of other people’s work, even if you’d rather people kept schtumm about your own. To be honest, I have no desire to kee…

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