January 3, 2006
cumbria
This picture was taken from my office window a few days ago.
And people ask me why I live in Cumbria…?
Hugh MacLeod
I'm a cartoonist.
I sell limited-edition prints.
I wrote a book.
I'm CEO of Stormhoek USA, which markets South African wine in the States.
I also draw private commissions.
Prints |
Opening | Current |
|---|---|---|
Bluetrain |
$900 | |
We Need to Talk |
$650 | |
Portfolio #2 |
$300 | |
NY NY |
$275 |
Niiiice!
Live in a nice area, pop by the big cities every now and then, go to conferences, converse by blogs… Dennis in Spain, Ben running around in the Italian countryside, you there, me here, etc… not a bad idea at all
Where is cumbria?
I get the same question Hugh, except the place is Flagstaff.
Here is my answer
http://www.nau.edu/webcam/flag-reilly/
Wow, that’s awfully nice. I guess I’d live there too. Got a few spare rooms?
For someone who has lived among scenes like that all my life (not far away from you in Durham, UK) I can’t wait to move to the city!
Although it is beautiful and I’m proud of where I’m from, there’s very little to do. When you’ve walked all the hills, climbed all the trees and done everything it has to offer by the time you’re four, it gets a little monotomous.
Isn’t he a dandy
Hey Kevin, time to suit up if you ever expect to get as much face time as Gawker’s Girl Extraordinaire, Ana Marie Cox Unlike with women, it often isn’t hard for a man to stand out from the crowd as
Beautiful man. I loves me the Hudson valley (except the bloody weather) and NYC can have its moments but I long to blog from far, far away.
Bonair comes to mind.
I need both, I really do. I lived in the country when I was knee high to a grasshopper, then my parents moved to the dreaded suburbia.
Needless to say I run away from there the second I was able to. London was home for the next 15 years, with all the fun, high junks, trials and tribulations that brings with it. At the end of that I was ready for the farm again. But instead we traded London for a smaller metropolis (with much saner property prices) and the wilderness a couple of hours away.
Hugh, I get the same awestruck reaction too.
I’m elated every morning when I open the curtains and clock the gorgeous, ever-changing view from my window — and I live on Clapham Common (inner south London for those who don’t know). It even looks good when its raining! And I live in a proper Art-Deco Manor no less
ps. Don’t keep starting about the city / country thing again, pretty please! Let’s just celebrate all the great views instead. I’ll drink to that anyway
Thank goodness I live on the Costa Blanca — sorry, snow doesn’t do it for me.