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VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR THE COVER REVEAL OF 100 NIGHTMARES
E A M Harris:Congratulations to KZ on her new book. I hope it really takes off. There are too few illustrated books around these days. Originally posted on The Eclectic Eccentric Shopaholic: what’s the...
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The mighty bear – Rondeau for dVerse
E A M Harris:I love this story and the picture that goes with it. Originally posted on Björn Rudbergs writings: The mighty bear that walk her home a girl should never lonely roam as little hands caress...
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A day of silence and its poetry
The last day of March was Nyepi Day for the Balinese. This means a day of silence – traffic stops, people stay at home and contemplate, all is quiet. I wish we had such a day here. I couldn’t find...
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Tennyson had many words for it
Hohenschwangau from Neuschwanstein Now that the stately home visiting season is upon us, my mind has turned to those most fairytale of stately dwellings, the castles. In Europe we’re blessed with a lot...
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Writ on water
The BBC website today has an article about the Protestant cemetery in Rome. Among the numerous rich and/or famous people buried there is John Keats, who died at twenty-five. It is so sad that he didn’t...
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Tips For Creating A Bee-Friendly Garden
E A M Harris:As we get going on seasonal planting etc, now is the time to consider our fellow creatures. Originally posted on Romancing the Bee: Alys Fowler Top tips for creating a bee-friendly garden...
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From festival to festival
Browsing around the web, as I do from time to time, I stumbled on the site of a magazine called Stylist. I’ve never heard of them before and style type things are not really my style, but one of their...
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Buddha’s Word
E A M Harris:I love museum exhibitions and this one sounds fantastic. Fortunately, we’ll be in that part of the country later this summer so I’ll definitely get to see it. Many people have devoted...
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Is there anyone who doesn’t love roses?
No two roses are the same, but all are born twinned with beauty.
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Eve in Glasgow
Last weekend I was in Glasgow. I’ve never been there before and really enjoyed it. The city has so many interesting things to see and the people are very friendly. One of the places I went was the...
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The edges of the poetic – wine writing
Bring me wine, but wine which never grew In the belly of the grape; Or grew on vine whose tap-roots reaching through Under the Andes to the Cape Suffer’d no savour of the earth to ‘scape. From Bacchus...
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Weird words
Browsing around today I came across this BuzzFeed quiz. It is twenty multiple choice questions on the meanings of rare English words. As a lover of odd words, I did it and didn’t do too badly – but I...
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Poetry and greenhouses
Wouldn’t if be wonderful to have the sort of greenhouse that could grow exotics like these orchids? But it would be a lot of work to look after, so I’m probably better off without. Looking at the...
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Walking the city – modern flânerie
Online magazine, Stepaway, has released its latest issue today. I’m naturally excited, not just because it contains one of my flash fictions, but because it resurrects a literary idea – the flâneur or...
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The way through the woods
This path, through woods green with new growth, was trodden by my ancestors.
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The flâneur and the boulevardier
In March I did a post on flânerie – the literary stroller and his environment. It was a new concept to me, but since then I’ve seen a couple of references to it. One of these introduces another...
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Kinokophone, libraries of sound and new words
Visualisation of an elephant rumble. (Wikimedia. Authors Stoeger A, Heilmann G, Zeppelzauer M, Ganswindt A, Hensman S, Charlton B) I came across the name Kinokophone by chance. It is a company...
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Slipped down the plughole?
I recently came across a book (now, sadly, out of print but still available here and there including libraries) called The Lost Pubs of Bath by Andrew Swift and Kirsten Elliott. My inner pedant was...
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Rhapsodomancy: a form of divination
Rhapsodomancy is another word new to me, and one that actually has some application. It means using the text of a poem to foretell the future. According to Wikipedia there are several ways of...
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Ferocious effort
This little fellow comes from a museum in Holland, but I can’t recall which museum or what exhibition he was part of. I was browsing through some old photos and came across him. I know why I kept his...
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