A Political Refugee From The Global Village

An Englishman in love with Bucharest's blowsy charms

Subscribe To

Posts
Atom
Posts
Comments
Atom
Comments

Thursday, 14 March 2013

The strange charm of dereliction

SHARE
Tweet
I haven't passed the Museum of Archaeology for a couple of years ago but then behind its padlocked iron gates half-lost amid tall grass stood a long row of Roman tombs and statues, protected from the rain by a rotting eave. It seemed to me whenever I passed as if the Museum itself were becoming an archaeological object and I were the archaeologist stumbling across it for the first time. Read more..

No comments:

Post a Comment

Newer Post Older Post Home
Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Chamberlain, Churchill and the End of Glory

If I am to manage to continue reading books I probably have to give up fiction. Having taken almost two years with 'War and Peace'...

Subscribe To

Posts
Atom
Posts
Comments
Atom
Comments

Popular Posts

  • A Simple Guide to Ukrainegate, for people who are not interested in the subject
    I don't imagine you are following the attempt to impeach Donald Trump too closely, gentle non-American reader.  There seems littl...
  • Chamberlain, Churchill and the End of Glory
    If I am to manage to continue reading books I probably have to give up fiction. Having taken almost two years with 'War and Peace'...
  • Eric Hobsbawm, enemy of the people
    So the unrepentant Communist historian, Eric Hobsbawm, C.H., has died aged 95, loaded with honours by the British state which it was his ...
  • An Englishman in England might go to prison for calling an MP a coward
    This story deserves as much coverage as possible. Think about it. A man called Alex Cline is being prosecuted simply for calling an MP a c...
  • Was Oscar Wilde a child abuser?
    I cannot quite understand why some people think of Oscar Wilde as a martyr.  Certainly, what consenting adults do in bed should not be a ...
  • Angela Merkel thinks Europe owes Africa 'a great debt'
    I just discovered that Angela Merkel said in January of this year at the Davos conference that co-operation with Africa was  “very very ...
  • What the papers say
    The big story is the supposed death of North Korean dictator Kim Il Jong. Meanwhile the EU censored itself to avoid angering China by cri...
  • Cheerful news
    This is a time when even contrarians have to become team players. I want everyone in countries that are in lockdown  because of the Covid-...
  • Is Uncle Sam committing suicide or being euthenised?
    Are we witnessing what a French conservative magazine recently called The Suicide of America? Or a sort of euthanasia. Killing Uncle Sam sof...
  • Is the American lockdown necessary?
    The data for the virus are all over the place and very misleading. People who are susceptible to other types of pneumonia are also at a hig...

Recent comments

Loading...

Search This Blog

These might be of interest

  • NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
    Yet ANOTHER electric bus DISASTER! - By Paul Homewood
    9 hours ago
  • UnHerd
    How Trump keeps Europe weak - America weaponises energy
    20 hours ago
  • Matt Goodwin
    Why I'm standing - Matt Goodwin’s newsletter goes to 92,400 subscribers from 183 countries.
    22 hours ago
  • Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom
    INTEL Roundtable : w/ Johnson & McGovern - Weekly Wrap 30-JAN -
    23 hours ago
  • Laudator Temporis Acti
    A Prig - Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936), "To Be Filed for Reference," *Plain Tales from the Hills* (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920), pp. 338-350 (at 347): As...
    1 day ago
  • Wrong Side of History
    Brothers in the love of God - Can the Right ever embrace Europe?
    1 day ago
  • Rod Dreher's Diary
    How Afraid Of Nurses Should We Be? - And: Surprising Public Turn On Migration; Christian Jew-Hating; Coming Church Crash
    1 day ago
  • Chronicles
    When State Resistance Meets the Constitution - In the age of immigration conflict, questions of constitutional supremacy, the extent of executive power, and whether we will live according to the rule of...
    1 day ago
  • Vintage Pop Fictions
    M.G. Braun’s Operation Jealousy - *Operation Jealousy* (originally published in French as *Plan Jalousie* in 1965) was part of M.G. Braun’s series of Al Glenne spy thrillers. The English t...
    3 days ago
  • Alata Magazine
    The Right Kind of Cosmetic Surgery - Surgeons as artists
    4 days ago
  • The Abbey of Misrule
    The Monthly Salon: January - A conversation, some videos and other bits and bobs
    1 week ago
  • Terra Nullius, by Ned Donovan
    Policing at the Speed of London - Before the lights, there is always a voice.
    4 months ago
  • CapX
    How to fix the ONS - The management and compilation of the UK’s vital national statistics is in disarray. There are longstanding problems with the main source of employment, ...
    5 months ago
  • zenhabits
    A Month of Reflection - By Leo Babauta We’re entering the last month of the year, and for many of us, it’s a darker and quieter season. It’s the perfect time for reflection. I l...
    1 year ago
  • Mail Online - Peter Hitchens
    Falling out of Love with America - An article in the American Conservative. You may read it here https://www.theamericanconservative.com/falling-out-of-love-with-america/
    2 years ago
  • Toma's
    - A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. “Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes t...
    6 years ago
  • Paradise is this Way – Tales & Poetry
    Between September and November – Eva Weggelaar - Between September and November, the harvest and the blood, my life the Twelfth Night’s glowing ember Between the blossom and the fruit time, the eternal so...
    7 years ago
  • The Weblog
    -
Show 10 Show All

Blog Archive

  • ►  2026 (129)
    • ►  January (129)
  • ►  2025 (346)
    • ►  December (58)
    • ►  November (62)
    • ►  October (37)
    • ►  September (34)
    • ►  August (23)
    • ►  July (22)
    • ►  June (8)
    • ►  May (17)
    • ►  April (37)
    • ►  March (37)
    • ►  February (9)
    • ►  January (2)
  • ►  2024 (232)
    • ►  December (2)
    • ►  November (13)
    • ►  October (17)
    • ►  September (9)
    • ►  August (12)
    • ►  July (58)
    • ►  June (26)
    • ►  May (17)
    • ►  April (21)
    • ►  March (8)
    • ►  February (15)
    • ►  January (34)
  • ►  2023 (338)
    • ►  December (8)
    • ►  November (13)
    • ►  October (38)
    • ►  September (31)
    • ►  August (14)
    • ►  July (44)
    • ►  June (38)
    • ►  May (38)
    • ►  April (28)
    • ►  March (43)
    • ►  February (18)
    • ►  January (25)
  • ►  2022 (616)
    • ►  December (50)
    • ►  November (30)
    • ►  October (52)
    • ►  September (54)
    • ►  August (50)
    • ►  July (86)
    • ►  June (87)
    • ►  May (56)
    • ►  April (18)
    • ►  March (55)
    • ►  February (41)
    • ►  January (37)
  • ►  2021 (170)
    • ►  December (8)
    • ►  November (13)
    • ►  October (17)
    • ►  September (18)
    • ►  August (20)
    • ►  July (17)
    • ►  June (25)
    • ►  May (4)
    • ►  April (2)
    • ►  March (7)
    • ►  February (22)
    • ►  January (17)
  • ►  2020 (454)
    • ►  December (7)
    • ►  November (10)
    • ►  October (20)
    • ►  September (24)
    • ►  August (8)
    • ►  July (39)
    • ►  June (112)
    • ►  May (47)
    • ►  April (71)
    • ►  March (37)
    • ►  February (37)
    • ►  January (42)
  • ►  2019 (610)
    • ►  December (19)
    • ►  November (21)
    • ►  October (85)
    • ►  September (50)
    • ►  August (17)
    • ►  July (37)
    • ►  June (33)
    • ►  May (31)
    • ►  April (47)
    • ►  March (110)
    • ►  February (111)
    • ►  January (49)
  • ►  2018 (342)
    • ►  December (23)
    • ►  November (59)
    • ►  October (50)
    • ►  September (34)
    • ►  August (13)
    • ►  July (35)
    • ►  June (24)
    • ►  May (21)
    • ►  April (25)
    • ►  March (30)
    • ►  February (22)
    • ►  January (6)
  • ►  2017 (108)
    • ►  December (9)
    • ►  November (7)
    • ►  October (19)
    • ►  September (19)
    • ►  August (1)
    • ►  July (20)
    • ►  June (5)
    • ►  May (5)
    • ►  April (8)
    • ►  March (6)
    • ►  February (4)
    • ►  January (5)
  • ►  2016 (141)
    • ►  December (4)
    • ►  November (21)
    • ►  October (38)
    • ►  September (10)
    • ►  August (4)
    • ►  July (6)
    • ►  June (15)
    • ►  May (20)
    • ►  April (6)
    • ►  March (6)
    • ►  February (8)
    • ►  January (3)
  • ►  2015 (156)
    • ►  December (2)
    • ►  November (14)
    • ►  October (18)
    • ►  September (9)
    • ►  August (8)
    • ►  July (21)
    • ►  June (22)
    • ►  May (18)
    • ►  April (11)
    • ►  March (18)
    • ►  February (8)
    • ►  January (7)
  • ►  2014 (140)
    • ►  December (9)
    • ►  November (20)
    • ►  October (15)
    • ►  September (15)
    • ►  August (21)
    • ►  July (13)
    • ►  June (15)
    • ►  May (8)
    • ►  April (7)
    • ►  March (9)
    • ►  February (7)
    • ►  January (1)
  • ▼  2013 (138)
    • ►  December (7)
    • ►  November (12)
    • ►  October (10)
    • ►  September (8)
    • ►  August (5)
    • ►  July (11)
    • ►  June (21)
    • ►  May (9)
    • ►  April (30)
    • ▼  March (15)
      • Duchesses and chambermaids
      • Easter in England
      • Ceauşescu's sceptre
      • My little article on 'Bucharest – the most interes...
      • The individual is foolish but the species is wise
      • Five profound thoughts today
      • The strange charm of dereliction
      • Looking at Bucharest churches in the warm March su...
      • The barometer question
      • Smoking in Romanian restaurants
      • Bucharest is the most interesting city in Europe e...
      • No dissenting voices as media prays for liberal Pope
      • If Benedict XVI was not the most intelligent head ...
      • Evelyn Waugh: 'In a more civilised age Hans Kung w...
      • The second half of a man's life
    • ►  February (5)
    • ►  January (5)
  • ►  2012 (220)
    • ►  December (12)
    • ►  November (18)
    • ►  October (31)
    • ►  September (28)
    • ►  August (14)
    • ►  July (24)
    • ►  June (23)
    • ►  May (15)
    • ►  April (21)
    • ►  March (6)
    • ►  February (16)
    • ►  January (12)
  • ►  2011 (111)
    • ►  December (16)
    • ►  November (32)
    • ►  October (5)
    • ►  July (34)
    • ►  June (4)
    • ►  May (1)
    • ►  April (1)
    • ►  March (11)
    • ►  February (3)
    • ►  January (4)
  • ►  2010 (31)
    • ►  July (10)
    • ►  March (21)
Simple theme. Powered by Blogger.

A Political Refugee From the Global Village - an Englishman in Bucharest

Loading...