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Daybook: March 2010
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Saturday, 13 March 2010. One Star in the West. To have got so far, alone. Almost to the seventieth stone. A few miles back, a storm-shaken. Hill and sea, the bridge broken. The bright fluent burn. Again, the April rain ringing. Across the sewn hills,. The road winds uphill, but. A wonder will be to sit. On the stone at last -. One star in the west. George Mackay Brown (1921 - 1996). Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Maryport, Cumbria, United Kingdom. I live on the far North Western edge of England.
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Daybook: August 2011
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Tuesday, 23 August 2011. The Greystoke Coverlet - a curious textile survival. Recently an interesting-looking coverlet came up for auction at Penrith in Cumbria. The expected price range was given as between £200 and £450. Photographs in the catalogue showed it to be closely covered. At the bottom of the textile, some female figures have words embroidered under them, for example, ‘Patient woman’ and ‘Hypocrite! 8217; The embroidered lettering has in places also almost vanished, although it might be possi...
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Daybook: Something's Wrong by Sam Smith
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Saturday, 10 August 2013. Something's Wrong by Sam Smith. 8216;Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.’. The narrative takes the form of a transcription of tape recordings made by Robert, aged around 50 when he begins them. What the tapes contain is, of course, always and entirely his. Perspective. The reader is drawn so tightly into Robert’s thoughtscape that at times one could almost feel worn down by it, and yearn for relief from its sheer intensity. Manic in his obsessive atten...
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Daybook: The Custom of the Country
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Sunday, 11 August 2013. The Custom of the Country. The Custom of the Country. One couldn’t really describe Undine Spragg as a ‘heroine’. But she is certainly the main protagonist of this book. The spoilt only child of a successful businessman and a compliant mother, Undine has grown up to expect her every whim to be satisfied. The novel follows her attempts to rise above her roots. 8217; Undine’s mother replies easily, ‘’Why, we called her after a hair-waver father put on the market the...However, to me,.
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Daybook: August 2013
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Sunday, 11 August 2013. The Custom of the Country. The Custom of the Country. One couldn’t really describe Undine Spragg as a ‘heroine’. But she is certainly the main protagonist of this book. The spoilt only child of a successful businessman and a compliant mother, Undine has grown up to expect her every whim to be satisfied. The novel follows her attempts to rise above her roots. 8217; Undine’s mother replies easily, ‘’Why, we called her after a hair-waver father put on the market the...However, to me,.
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Daybook: August 2012
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Thursday, 2 August 2012. The Ogier family in Guernsey County, Ohio. Which was published in 1938. This is how the story goes:. 8217; One might doubt the practicality of a fugitive from the law choosing to burden himself with a wooden cradle, carrying it to France, then over the Atlantic to America; but the cradle is real enough and is in the possession of the Guernsey County Historical Society! Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Maryport, Cumbria, United Kingdom. I live on the far North Western edge of England.
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Daybook: September 2010
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Friday, 3 September 2010. The Spirit of Geometry. Burkhardt: '.the two poles of all artistic expression in Islam: the sense of rhythm and the spirit of geometry. .'. This wall-quilt is my way of expressing this in the medium in which I most often work. As for how it is created, let's just say that it's not a technique for the faint-hearted! Labels: Patchwork and Quilting. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Maryport, Cumbria, United Kingdom. I live on the far North Western edge of England. Islamic Arts and Crafts.
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Daybook: July 2010
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Tuesday, 27 July 2010. View from the Grand Tier boxes! I'd managed to get two returned tickets as the Hall had been completely booked almost as soon as the concert was advertised. And we were lucky - got two seats bang opposite centre of the stage. Labels: Out and About. Alice does the Royal Albert Hall. The Dr. Who concert was brilliant. Labels: Out and About. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Maryport, Cumbria, United Kingdom. I live on the far North Western edge of England. View my complete profile.
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Daybook: October 2010
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Saturday, 2 October 2010. Loudon Wainwright III Be Careful, There's a Baby in the House. This specially for B and for R. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Maryport, Cumbria, United Kingdom. I live on the far North Western edge of England. View my complete profile. Islamic Arts and Crafts. Loudon Wainwright III Be Careful, Theres a Baby i.
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Daybook: Proust (re-visited) via Hesperus Press
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Thursday, 29 December 2011. Proust (re-visited) via Hesperus Press. Whose motto is ‘Et remotissima prope (to bring near what is far), publish "works by illustrious authors, often unjustly neglected or simply little known in the English-speaking world.” The books are beautifully-designed little paper-backs and Proust’s Pleasures and Days. Originally published in 1896 as Les Plaisirs et Les Jours. Of course, if you have never even dipped your toe into A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu,. Whether in French or in...
