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Author: Nick Rowswell

When it Comes to the Crunch

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It’s the Soccer World Cup, and this afternoon France played a particularly long, fastidious and defensive match against […]

June 26, 2018 Art, Barbecue, collage, football, photography, Sport

This Sport That Binds Us

France gripped by Soccer World Cup fever. This nation, never noted for colourful patriotic out-pourings, has unfurled the […]

June 17, 2018 Café, deepest france, France, French, Sport

Modern Mix

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Wednesday 23rd May – my official citizenship ceremony – a republican rite of passage where the local “prefet” […]

May 27, 2018 Bourges, deepest france, France, photography, Uncategorized

Monarchical Musings from a New French Republican

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It was a quiet family wedding. None of the usual state pomp – just a few close family […]

May 27, 2018 Culture, History, nationality, politics

ROAD FOOD

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On the road for work last week, heading to those parts of France that tourists never go. I […]

May 20, 2018 Art, Café, cheap hotels, Cooking, drifting, Europe, Food, France, gastronomy, junk, Lentils, Motoring, photography, Road trip, Tourism, Uncategorized

Rubbish

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I specialise in rubbish – Rubbish makes good art and plenty of art is rubbish. We load up […]

May 13, 2018 Art, junk, Life, photography, rubbish, Uncategorized

Plein Soleil

Mucking about with weekend magazines and junk mail for this collage. Rules are, 20 minutes to make a […]

May 12, 2018 Art, collage, photography, Polaroid, summer

Glamour in Cannes

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71st Cannes Film Festival got underway a few days back. Here is a personal angle on the theme […]

May 12, 2018 Art, Cannes, Cinema, collage, Culture, Fashion, photography, TRAVEL

Millenials, Black Blocs and Baby Boomers. Where is the spirit of 1968? (and who cares?)

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There was a momentary whiff of « revolution » in the spring air – demonstration, dissent and even destruction. Was […]

May 10, 2018 1968, Ageing, Crime, Culture, France, History, Paris, politics, Revolution, Spring, Time Travel, Uncategorized

Monster “Art” Day

It’s monster day  or “Les Monstres”, in my home town of Bourges – that one-a-year-day, when you can […]

May 10, 2018 Art, Bourges, Culture, photography, rubbish

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