‘Nostalghia’ by Andrei Tarkovsky, his Polaroids, and Kim Marsland’s photographs of Charleston…

On courtly love, ‘Le Grand Meaulnes’, and nostalgia…

Some ideas on creative space…

Christmas touchstones and Ingmar Bergman’s ‘Fanny and Alexander’…

On G.I. Gurdjieff…

On Marcel Duchamp’s ‘Fountain’, Baroness Elsa von Freytag- Loringhoven, and tricksters…

On Evelyn Hofer’s ‘Dublin’ and The Beatles’ ‘Now and Then’…

On ‘the monk’, a 16th century automaton, and the work of Paloma Varga Weisz…

About animal pack-bands from Iran and the Irish ‘crios’…

About Kettle’s Yard, Jim Ede, and Winifred Nicholson

On Nils Økland, Lars Hertervig, Jon Fosse, and Werner Herzog’s ‘Heart of Glass’…

About Shadow, Peter Doig, and ‘liquid life’…

About Clarice Lispector and her ‘crônicas’…

On the film ‘Unrest’, Pyotr Kropotkin, and French market gardening…

The Hardanger fiddle, Knut Hamre, and Benedicte Maurseth…

Tang Yin, ‘wu wei’, and Michael Puett’s ‘The Path’…

About Mike Nelson, ‘Roadside Picnic’, and Tarkovsky’s ‘Stalker’

About Lisa O’Neill’s ‘all of this is chance’ and Patrick Kavanagh

About two films, ‘Aftersun’ and ‘The Quiet Girl’

Thoughts on scrapbooks, especially those made by Eric Ravilious and Edward Bawden