Thursday, 3 January 2019

The Scourge of Intensive Farming

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Stocks Down Farm from Old Winchester Hill The most important books I have read in 2018 are about the way our food is produced and ...
Monday, 31 December 2018

Heron Wars in Stockbridge

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The garden in winter  The tranquillity of the garden in winter has recently been replaced by the threat of a predatory heron. He arr...
Wednesday, 19 December 2018

Favourite Quotes - John Ruskin

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John Ruskin by Millais “It's unwise to pay too much, but it's worse to pay too little. When  you pay too much, you lose a l...
Wednesday, 12 December 2018

Thomas Miller Carol Service 2018 and the City

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Thomas Miller Carol Service at St Katerine Cree Church The Thomas Miller Carol Service was held at St Katerine Cree Church on 11th D...
Monday, 10 December 2018

Favourite Poems - A Shropshire Lad

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Into my heart on air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are ...
Wednesday, 5 December 2018

'Pity the Nation' - Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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Sunday, 11 November 2018

Favourite Poems - The Wound in Time

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Pages of the Sea practice at Lyme Regis the day before Remembrance Sunday 11th November 2018.  THE WOUND IN TIME It is the wound in T...
Wednesday, 7 November 2018

Favourite Paintings - Remedios Varo 1908 - 1963

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Microcosm 1939 Mimesis 1960 Woman Leaving the Psychoanalyst 1961 The Call 1961 I have always loved Remedios Varo'...
Tuesday, 30 October 2018

Favourite Gardens - The Last of The Buildings - October 2018

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The Buildings, Broughton, is a superb garden designed and maintained by Gillian Pugh and is the subject of several posts here as w...
Monday, 29 October 2018

Favourite Poems - Horatius at the Bridge - Macauley

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LARS PORSENA of Clusium,   By the Nine Gods he swore That the great house of Tarquin   Should suffer wrong no more. By the Nine Gods h...