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Lucia

17 October, 201610 October, 2016 CalmgroveLeave a comment

winter Lucia over-wintering in Fishguard harbour, Pembrokeshire

Travel

16 October, 201610 October, 2016 CalmgroveLeave a comment

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

House of Secrets

Nina Bawden: The Secret Passage Puffin Books 1979 (1963) After an idyllic upbringing in Kenya three young children — John, Mary and Ben Mallory — suddenly lose their mother, only to be sent to a bleak seaside resort in England to stay with their ‘disagreeable’ Aunt Mabel, the landlady of a boarding house. To the […]

Yorkshire lasses

An intriguing photographic image, with Les Sœurs Brontë written on its reverse, was found earlier this decade in a private Scottish collection by Robert Haley from Lancashire while he was researching for a book on Victorian photography. As Haley explains in detail on his Brontë Sisters website this monochrome picture of three young women, two […]

Not so jolly

Agatha Christie: Evil Under the SunHarperCollinsPublishers 2014 (1941) The Jolly Roger Hotel on Smugglers’ Island is run by the ‘refayned’ Mrs Castle. Not unnaturally she is extremely anxious when a murder in high season threatens the establishment’s reputation as a place for relaxation, clearly unaware that in future years murder mystery weekends may enhance its […]

Attention to detail

Robertson Davies: World of Wonders (1975) in The Deptford Trilogy Penguin 2011 ‘Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.’ — From the Letter to the Hebrews Davies’ Deptford Trilogy is completed by this, World of Wonders, and like the New Testament phrase from the Epistle to the […]

Smugglers’ Island

I’m nearing the end of a seaside holiday in Devon, reading, lazing, reading, sightseeing and reading. Now I thought that I’d share a few images with you, specifically of the resort where Agatha Christie set her 1941 novel Evil Under the Sun which, not uncoincidentally, I’ve been chugging through while soaking up the local ambience. […]

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