Brian's Blethers

  On the other side of this strange carbuncle in Kirkcaldy's war memorial gardens is a plaque that tells us that it's a  monument, u...

August is Festival time in Edinburgh and I suspect this girl is a performer using her bus journey to get ready.  That's not street makeu...

This was one of the Jazz Festival gigs that I most enjoyed.  Martin Kershaw had been commissioned to write some music to accompany the John ...

Filmhouse has been brought back from the depths of bankruptcy in what seems the doublequick time of less than three years by a hard-working ...

  I was in Shinjuku on a bit of a shopping expedition when I saw a crowd of people all looking towards this. Well I thought it must do somet...

My book of walks that I mentioned earlier suggests that you shift your base every few days and I did that after the Kanda Matsuri.  I moved ...

  Back at the shrine on Saturday morning things were a bit wet.  Not everyone's enthusiasm was dented though.  People queued up for merc...

This is the Kanda Myojin shrine courtyard looking towards the inside of the entrance gate.  The shrine is the nerve centre as it were of the...