Gledwood Vol 2 (Main blog)

Niagra falls, USA/Canada. I once dreamed I was on a boat such as this one ... DEEP BREATH... TAKE PLUNGE..! I'M WRITING... I started wit...

FURRY FRIDAY (on Saturday). MESOCRICETUS AURATUS ~ the name means "medium-sized golden hamster"... THE GOLDEN OR SYRIAN HAMSTER ma...

I think these are some of the most beautiful birds:

MY BODY CRAVES SLEEP DESPERATELY, yet in bed I spent half the night seemingly in a semi-twilight state. That was last night. The night bef...

... or an old one revisited. IT CAME TO THE POINT WHERE I JUST WANTED TO CURL UP AND DIE before I reached inside and grabbed a handful of th...

THE WEATHER'S extremely chilly. Fallen leaves everywhere in a brown mush. A "nip" in the air, if I can say that without being...

FEATHERY FRIDAY (ON SATURDAY) It looks something like a giant hummingbird. It is probably the most beautiful bird in the UK. Surprise, surpr...

WHEN INDEED! I am awake in the middle of the night worrying because my life feels wrong-wrong-WRONG and yet I never seem able to do anythin...

Japanese character of the day: kuzu ~ two moons (see left) under a mountain (see right). 崩れる kuzureru ~ to collapse, fall to pieces; 崩す kuzu...

I AM NEWLY ADDICTED TO BEEFBURGERS. I eat them in brown pitta bread with relish and cheese and tomatoes and radishes. I've cooked so ma...

HERE ARE SIX OF THE MOST PICTURESQUE WRITING SYSTEMS on the planet ~ in my opinion ~ in ascending order of funkiness. What do you think? Mon...

NO FIRE ~ but a great deal of chaos. I slammed in a pair of Morrison's own quarter pounder beefburgers in the middle shelf under high h...

FURRY FRIDAY (ON SATURDAY)... PROPERLY KNOWN AS GUINEA PIGS OR CAVIES, these are native to South America ~ where for generations the Andean ...