Island 2000 Trust Blog

It’s much more difficult than I imagined to get even one layer of bricks flat. All I needed here was a small, fairly level plinth which would support a plaque with a poem on it. But after struggling for some hours with a sack of recycled bricks and a bucket of rapidly setting cement, it looked like the whole thing might congeal into something similar to the Tricorn Centre. Fortunately, Martin’s children, Rebekah and Jonathan arrived just in time to straighten things out before they finally set hard. (It seems they do this kind of thing all the time in their home education group).

Anyway the latest poem in the Bus Stop Poem series is now in position. It is entitled Simeon Monument and was written by Pat Murgatroyd. Hop on a 6, 7, 38 or the Medina Tour and see it in the flesh!

Hello, been away for a week and have done several things.

Found the best stone in the world:

Photographed an idiot:

and discovered a most delightful book from 1944 - ‘Seashore Life and Pattern’ by T.A.Stephenson, then Professor of Zoology at the University of Wales. He says: ‘..if men of science will respond to the overtures of artists and boldly confront the question whether natural beauty with all the ennobling emotions which it begets may not be something deeper and more systematized than a wayward subjective reaction to mere matter, they may soon discover fresh vistas opening out before them, so enlarging the scope of their own endeavours.’ which is a big sentence and an enlightened sentiment. It’s a lovely book, but weird.
In it are designs drawn from sea-life. Imagine your marine wallpaper looking down at you
like this:

or this:

or best of all this: