Stuart Aken's Blog, page 14
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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February 3, 2024
#ScenicSaturday 3rd 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 the Forest of Dean. Tall trees convey a sense of wonder, a feeling of permanence, peace, and tranquillity. We wonder what they might tell us if only we …
January 27, 2024
#ScenicSaturday 27th January 2024
My photos in this continuing series depict our beautiful world, encouraging viewers to share them and help save our unique home from human carelessness and indifference.Today’s photo is from the Forest of Dean and shows January sunlight filtering through the tall pines and firs of a plantation on a slope. We have seen buzzards, deer, …
January 20, 2024
#ScenicSaturday 20th January 2024
My photos in this continuing series depict 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 walk in the Forest of Dean. The track leads from the old Myristock Bridge along a fairly level route past the secluded car park at …
January 13, 2024
#ScenicSaturday 13th January 2024
My photos in this continuing set of series depict our beautiful world in the hope of encouraging viewers to share them and help save our unique home from human carelessness.Today’s photo is a seasonal shot from the Forest of Dean, mist clouding the spaces between the trees on a track that curves by a functioning …
January 11, 2024
January 9, 2024
Epitaphs, by Anthological Poets: #BookReview.
For some reason, lost in the dark clouds of obfuscating age-related memory, although I reviewed this book on Goodreads way back in the mists of time, I seem to have failed to have placed that review here. I now correct that missed opportunity. # As just one of the seventy-two poets featured in this remarkable …
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January 6, 2024
#ScenicSaturday 6th January 2024
My photos in this continuing set of series depict our beautiful world in the hope of encouraging viewers to share them and help save our unique home from human carelessness.Today’s photo is a winter shot of the River Wye that begins in Wales and runs through a valley, part of which is designated an Area …
