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Monthly Archives: December 2016
New Year
I feel prompted by Rick Greene’s blog – which he self-deprecatingly calls “monkish” – to move into a fire-gazing mood myself. This is nowhere as good as his and has much less spiritual insight. I have been gloomy about the … Continue reading
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Maps
I have spent time looking closely at another of my Christmas acquisitions, the OS Great British Colouring Map this morning. Engrossing. It strikes me that, like any book, it is capable of a range of responses, from the “Meh” when a nephew … Continue reading
Manuscripts: a brief thought on autoethnography
I’ve been given Christopher de Hamel’s beauty of a book, Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts for Christmas, and today I sat in bed listening to de Hamel and Andrew Marr enthusing about the more notable MSS de Hamel discusses. The greater … Continue reading
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A thought for the solstice
The Winter Solstice today is exciting people, understandably, to think of times improving. New dawns, new springs – and there is hope, I know: but we must remember that 2016 saw the rolling of boulders that will continue to crash … Continue reading
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The Fire and the Knife and the Peak Experience
This blog post is fascinating, and this looks, from the lovely website, to be a great example. It would not be my intention to do down a setting so clearly that states: …we pride ourselves on helping your little adventurers … Continue reading
Return to…
A return to Garner country is demanded. I will confess here what Mat already knows: I dream of Ludchurch and spend a lot of sleep time in Thursbitch. It is unfulfilled business, I guess, that takes me back. While these … Continue reading
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Tagged Children's Literature, Landscape, Outdoors, Spirituality, Traditional tales
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