Daily Archives: June 18, 2012


Lotte and Wytze Hellinga

As a student at the university of Amsterdam after the Second World War. Lotte found herself stimulated first by the teaching of Herman de la Fontaine Verwey and they by that of the forceful personality of Wytze Hellinga, at that time professor of  Dutch philology at the University. Wytze Hellinga’s teaching was grounded in the […]


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Between the Inishowen peninsula

Between the Inishowen peninsula, north west of Derry and the Glens of Antrim, in the east beyond the Sperrin Mountains, is found some of western Europe’s most captivating and alluring landscape.  The Roe Valley Park, some 15 miles east of Derry is a prime example. The Park, like so many Celtic places is steeped in […]


Doesn’t that sound terribly yellow to you?

‘I can’t say. I am colour blind’, was my flat-mate’s response. And that was that for another twenty odd years, when by chance I came across an article in a newspaper on research into synaesthesia at a London hospital. At last, I understood my interpretation of the world through colour.Synaesthesia is the subjective sensation of  […]