Hello. It’s February 2021. As I type this the rain is beating on the conservatory roof. Nearly all the paths around where I live are thick mud. Other words for mud, incidentally, include slobber, slabber, slutch, and lutulence, according to the Oxford English Dictionary.
Continue reading “Words for Mud, Ray Bradbury, Catherine Crowe.”Recently a large brass key missing almost 50 years was returned anonymously to St Leonard’s Tower in West Malling.
There is uncertainty as to why this enigmatic 900-year-old stone fortress was built, but it remains an imposing presence.
I took a few photos whilst out on my travels recently.
The White Beach, oil on canvas, 2020.
Dreaming of the“Spaggio Bianco” [White Beach] on Lipari,, an island off the coast of Sicily.
The most valuable piece of advice anyone ever gave me came from a nurse called Michael in psychiatric hospital. He wore tinted glasses and had a loud, biblical voice. At that time I had been ill with M.E for more than a decade, and it had made me acutely depressed. He said all of us have a cross to bear. For a child in Africa it may be that they do not enough to eat. Other peoples crosses might be smaller, they may be bigger, but your illness is a cross you have to bear. If you don’t come to terms with it you end up in places like this. Or worse.
It’s Michaelmas today (September 29th), traditionally marking the end of harvest. At this time the number of animals kept over winter (and fodder needed to feed them) was worked out. It is also a day associated with the beginning of autumn.
Continue reading “Some Meandering Thoughts on Michaelmas”Audiobooks Saved my Life.
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