On Children's Art

Children's art can be quite powerful and effective especially when contributing to a political message.

(Children's art in St. Finbarr's Cathedral in Cork, Ireland)

On Birds

"Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure."

-Stephen King

(A flock of crows gathering on a tree near Blarney Castle, Ireland)

On Unusual Prizes

There are amusements parks around the world that use bottles of alcohol as actual prizes.

(A temporary amusement park in Barking, Essex)

On Enjambment

It is the running over of a sentence from one verse to another so that closely related words or phrases fall in different lines.

Example: 

We are the Dead. Short days ago

We lived, felt down, saw sunset glow,

Love and were loved, and now we lie

In Flanders fields.

(Home of William Wordsworth in the Lake District)

On Remembrance Day

The poppy became a symbol of the First World War after Moina Michaels was inspired by John McCrae's poem "In Flanders Fields" to sell poppies she created out of red silk.

(Soldiers in Ottawa at the start of Winterman marathon)

On Apostrophes

Just because a sign looks official and exists in the country that created the English language, it doesn't mean it can't have multiple errors.

A sign outside a temporary amusement

park in Barking, Essex, England.

On Protests

They have a way of being linked with the anniversaries of previous tragedies/historical events.

(Posters from a large demonstration in London, UK)