Posted in Arty farty, Poetry, tagged Art, Poetry on March 31, 2008 | No Comments »
I have heard a few performance poets lately and am unsure how I feel about hearing, rather than seeing, poems. It’s not that I don’t enjoy listening, I do, enormously, but there is a subtle change in my relationship with the poem which has stimulated a puzzled interest in me.
It’s the same with paintings. We [...]
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Well, the clocks have ’sprung’ forward and it’s officially the start of British Summer Time! Keeping this brief today as the Sun is at last gracing us with his divine and extremely welcome presence - and I need to get the broad beans and the spuds in!
Damh the Bard, whose music brings much joy to [...]
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Each morning I look at the beautiful print I have on the wall in my bedroom - it was painted by a wonderful, sensitive and spiritually focussed American artist called Melissa Harris, and depicts a woman in a green robe with a red lining (like my own ritual garment) standing by a Cornish windbush - [...]
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Being a relative novice to growing veggies (though now the proud owner of the local Gardeners Association novice cup - my friends are all bored with hearing that one!) I had not realised that some veggies, well, just keep going forever. I thought you ate them then planted more. How wrong was I…
Now my well [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Dorset, Gower, Seaside on March 26, 2008 | No Comments »
I feel so land-girt these days… its odd that so many of us live away from the sea and yet it calls to us like a primordial force, reminding us of our fear to be far from it, our sustainer, our familiar, the flat horizon always with us, glittering, moonlit, moving or monochrome. Those of [...]
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I love Monty Don - I thought that no-one could ever take the special place in my heart occupied by Geoff Hamilton of blessed memory - but Monty has such a gentle passion for the earth about him. As everything is peeping above the surface now wanting to push upwards and grow, here’s a quote [...]
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Posted in Camping, tagged Camping, Tents on March 25, 2008 | No Comments »
After months of intense cogitation and research I have at last, today, ordered a new bell tent. I needed something which a lone female non technical in the absence of the most capable man in the world (who is normally in attendance) could carry, erect and live comfortably in on the land for a week [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on March 25, 2008 | No Comments »
With nothing interesting to say except some garbled nonsense - fascinating erudition will follow!
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Posted in Uncategorized on March 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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