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March 9, 2024
#ScenicSaturday 9th March 2024:
This continuing series of posts depicts our beautiful world, encouraging viewers to share them and help save our unique home from human carelessness and indifference.Today’s photo depicts a calm day on a beach under the chalk cliffs on the northeastern shore of the North Sea at Flamborough, just north of Bridlington in East Yorkshire. Here, …
March 3, 2024
Symbols in Australian Aboriginal Art
The Visual Indigenous Language that Communicates Cultural Life. First published on Medium. I published this on the blog platform, Medium, but only subscribers can read there (it’s worth the small subscription, by the way, as there is a huge variety of good quality work on there), so I decided I’d also post it here for …
March 2, 2024
#ScenicSaturday 2nd March 2024:
This continuing series depicts our beautiful world, encouraging viewers to share them and help save our unique home from human carelessness and indifference. Recent months have seen me featuring only photographs taken in that specific month, though not necessarily the current year. I think, with the UK entering meteorological spring on 1st March, I’ll include …
February 28, 2024
Oddities Observed On Outings #2: Who Put Holes in that Rock?
This is the second in a proposed series on peculiarities I’ve encountered when walking. I originally intended these posts to appear only on Medium, but that’s a platform where most readers subscribe with a small annual fee for the opportunity to read from a vast collection of posts covering an enormous range of interests. It …
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February 24, 2024
#ScenicSaturday 24th February 2024:
This continuing series depicts our beautiful world, encouraging viewers to share them and help save our unique home from human carelessness and indifference. Today’s photo depicts a stretch of the beautiful River Wye, which forms a boundary along part of its length between England and Wales. Taken from the English side, it shows a local …
February 21, 2024
The Owl Service, by Alan Garner: #BookReview.
I have no memory of acquiring this book, which is considered a children’s classic. I wonder if the mystery of its origin in my home was a factor in keeping me read it since I found it hard work. Generally, I need to empathise with at least one character in a book to give it …
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February 17, 2024
#ScenicSaturday 17th February 2024:
This continuing series depicts our beautiful world, encouraging viewers to share them and help save our unique home from human carelessness and indifference. Today’s photo shows sunlight fanning through the faint February mist in a place we look on as our ‘magical’ forest in the Forest of Dean. The spruce and pines here form such …
February 16, 2024
Oddities Observed On Outings #1
I posted a piece about this on Medium, a platform used by multiple writers.
February 10, 2024
#ScenicSaturday 10th February 2024:
This continuing series depicts our beautiful world, encouraging viewers to share them and help save our unique home from human carelessness and indifference. Today’s photo is from a favourite walk in the Forest of Dean. The shot was taken at the top of a steep rise, with a further, less steep climb to follow. The …
February 4, 2024
Spirits of the Ghan, by Judy Nunn: #BookReview.
I love it when a new book comes my way by a serendipitous route. This one was a present from my daughter’s mother-in-law, with us for a short while over the Xmas period. She’d finished it so handed it to me rather than take it back on that long flight to Tasmania. It’s an absorbing …
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