Nigeness

It was the year of the Wedding - not that Kate and Wills affair (to which, owing to an unaccountable oversight, I wasn't invited) but th...

'A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.' The wise words above ...

Among my most prized presents this Christmas were a bottle of 12-year-old Craigellachie (dangerously drinkable at 46%) and a book that I did...

After the rigours of the pre-Christmas workstorm, it's really rather pleasant to return to the office after the festivities and enjoy th...

This year's Nigeness Christmas card is this Adoration of the Shepherds - a very beautiful, very Venetian treatment of the subject, proba...

Over on The Dabbler, the redoubtable Jon Hotten asks, in a comment, if I deliberately held off from buying Muriel Spark's Memento Mori o...

And then I got to thinking about wood engraving, and in particular about this little beauty - little indeed; the original image is barely th...