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Rattlechain mash-up

He’s seen it all, watching the caged birds within doing tricks. That 70’s guy- a tribute. Click on the link and then come back to this page following the words and pictures down in time.     Raindrops keep fallin’ … Continue reading

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Landscape with the Fall of Icarus.

Musée des Beaux Arts About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters: how well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully long; How, when … Continue reading

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Le plein, s’il vous plaît

And so to more “silliness” concerning the covering over with some cloth and filling of sand disguised as “remediation” at the lagoon that has poisoned dozens of wildfowl thanks to a British dumped chemical weapon. I wasn’t aware that Albright and Wilson … Continue reading

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The silence of the cams

A country is alleged to have released a chemical weapon. People roll around showing clinical signs of a nerve agent in convulsions, and these are captured on shaky video. Local observers report what they see to the media and the … Continue reading

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A Solvay holiday

   Ah the sites of the Rattlechain lagoon. Plenty of seagulls and sand in late Summer. I just need me deck chair and shades and the world could role by around me.          I nearly had a … Continue reading

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The butterfly effect

   Chaos: When the present determines the future, but the approximate present does not approximately determine the future. Edward Lorenz More chaos at the lagoon over the course of the last week, but not sure about where the theory will … Continue reading

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Slip shod- We’re “asking more from chemistry”

During the lull in operations at the lagoon, a few observations were noticeable. First, a few Canada geese have started to return to the lagoon- now that they are able to fly again after the moulting period has ended, and the … Continue reading

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Last of the Summer slime

BLACKBERRY PICKING BY SEAMUS HEANEY Late August, given heavy rain and sun For a full week, the blackberries would ripen. At first, just one, a glossy purple clot Among others, red, green, hard as a knot. You ate that first … Continue reading

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Lagoon- the return

BY ARTHUR ALBRIGHT’S GHOST WRITER….  Arthur’s premonition dream -as told to me by a little bird.   “No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that Albright and Wilson’s affairs were being watched from the timeless worlds … Continue reading

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Rattlechain lagoon story- for dummies-in French!

Whilst delving into the archives of my loft, I happened to chance on an old book. A remarkable artifact from childhood. Opening the book, I was struck by a number of the pictures and the strange messages that were being … Continue reading

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