http://www.ianwhybrow.com ...coming soon... Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:35:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Enjoyed the Dutch Portraits exhibition at the National Gallery today. A wonderfully inspirational mixture of characters - admirals, merchants, couples, babies, old people,families with ten children, burghers, regents, military men. Must find out what what Syndics and Jurists are, exactly. Amazing how many of the people represented are painted with ... http://www.ianwhybrow.com/2007/07/31/portraits-and-tulips/ As the floodwaters of Gloucestershire and Worcestershire recede and there is at least temporary cause for general rejoicing, it seems trifling to mention that my creative juice is not exactly in spate today. Hence my fiddling about doing this when I should be doing something to earn a crust. Which ... http://www.ianwhybrow.com/2007/07/24/drying/ Yesterday I stood up to my knees in cold water, leaves swirling round my gaping Crocs, feeling for the drain-cover in the courtyard behind our flats. My neighbour Sneha stood bravely beside me with a broom. The water cascading from the gutters above came down with a punch that made ... http://www.ianwhybrow.com/2007/07/21/deluge/ It's been a good day. My diary turned up. It was on the glass table in the living room. I'm pretty sure it wasn't there the other three million times I looked - but I don't want to make a big thing about that. The main thing is - it ... http://www.ianwhybrow.com/2007/07/01/eureka/ I've lost my diary. I'm always losing things - keys, especially escape me, sometimes for years at a time - but this is the first time my diary has walked off and left me. It might have taken to the country air of Upton Scudamore or Warminster - or possibly ... http://www.ianwhybrow.com/2007/06/19/the-case-of-the-missing-diary/ Much enjoyed my trip to Warminster in Wilts yesterday for the first Warmister Lit Fest. This was the initiative of a wonderfully enthusiastic and determined chap from the Army Education Corp called Captain Cooke (a rank to which he was destined, when he joined up as a boy soldier, as ... http://www.ianwhybrow.com/2007/06/19/get-warminster-reading/ Up betimes and off to Berkshire - Bracknell to be precise - to talk to Sandy Lane Primary School and to celebrate the official opening of the county's ( and the world's) first Mobile Library to be entirely decorated with Harry and dinosaurs. I leave home at 6.30 and head ... http://www.ianwhybrow.com/2007/06/19/launching-the-harry-library-bus/ Not a particularly auspicious day to get cracking on a blog, except that Im celebrating the day before yesterday. The day before yesterday I came back to London from the Hay Festival, exhausted , over-stimulated, humbled by the range and intelligence of the writers I heard speak. I have to admit ... http://www.ianwhybrow.com/2007/06/06/century-up/