Strange isn't it? - some of the trains that pass through the stations and landscapes of our mind: particular configurations of carriages at particular times, coming from where and going to where and for what? ..endlessly passing through fields for our attention.

Yesterday, I was thinking about a couple of things - call them coincidences if you like - that occured  around the time I first set up this website and (ad)venture. Recollecting / flicking through last years diary (2013) I note the following:

Christmas 2012 and New Year 2013 - London: Visit some of the London dragons. These are (cast-iron?) statues sited at the historic old gateways and bars (toll-points) of the city; guarding the original 'square mile' at: Aldersgate, Aldgate, Bishopsgate, Cripplegate, Ludgate, Moorgate and Newgate. Visited the one at Temple Bar at the entrance to the city and Fleet Street. Came across one on Blackfriars bridge. Also visited the one at Victoria Embankment. The Coat of Arms for the City of London incorporates dragons:

September 29th - Dublin: Find and buy book: 'Dragons, Serpents & Slayers (in the Classical and Early Christian Worlds) - A Source Book' by Daniel Ogden (Oxford Univ. Press 2013).

October 7th - Website is born!

October 13th - Greystones, co. Wicklow: Lunch at 'The Happy Pear'. After food I go to order a drink. Unasked, the barista (coffee man) draws a dragon in my latte!

December 27th - Penzance, Cornwall (UK). Harbour car park: After we park, a friend draws my attention to a red dragon (soft toy!) on the dashboard in the car just to our right.

This is all interesting for me because it helps to show how interests are working away underneath before they surface and take form and shape in various ways. Such is the way of the dragon!

'Have a look where you've come from - it will help you to understand where you are going'.

I intend to post other interesting dragon meetings of this kind - if and when they happen...