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Lucia

17 October, 201610 October, 2016 CalmgroveLeave a comment

winter Lucia over-wintering in Fishguard harbour, Pembrokeshire

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16 October, 201610 October, 2016 CalmgroveLeave a comment

Gallery of photo reposts with a travel theme: train, bike, digger, van and carousel

My top ten mazes

I’ve long had a fascination with mazes and labyrinthine paths, whether it be their patterns, their history, their symbolism or their psychology. My bible for a long time was W H Matthews’ classic overview Mazes and Labyrinths: their history and developments (first published in 1922 and republished in 1970). I also pored over G R […]

Righting the balance

Ursula Le Guin: The Farthest Shore in The Earthsea Quartet Puffin Books 1993 (1973) When one comes to the end of a planned trilogy one always hopes for a sense of closure. But when I first read this there was also a sense of profound disappointment: yes, wrongs were righted, evil was overcome, but at […]

Keys to mystery

Joan Aiken: The Song of Mat and Ben A St Boan Mystery Illustrated by Caroline Crossland Red Fox 2001 Ned Thorne has had a dream similar to one his Aunt Lal has had, of two cherubic-faced boys in old-fashioned clothes entering the bookshop run by his Uncle Adam. Returning — not without mishap — to […]

Book lover’s day’s today?

9th August is apparently Book lover’s day, according to some anonymous and apparently self-appointed committee who decide these things. This is despite the fact that there is no end of special days for bibliophile and bibliomanes. World Book Day is celebrated worldwide (early March in the UK and Ireland — aimed at younger readers — […]

An unmeasured desire for life

Inverted Commas 3: The modern world viewed from Earthsea ‘Nature is not unnatural. This is not a righting of the balance, but an upsetting of it. There is only one creature who can do that […] by an unmeasured desire for life.’ Sparrowhawk is speaking of humans, in Ursula Le Guin’s wonderfully immersive Earthsea fantasy […]

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