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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

Who’s who on Aratu

In Joan Aiken’s Limbo Lodge we meet with a number of individuals who haven’t appeared elsewhere in the Wolves Chronicles. Joan (see, we’re all on first-name terms!) is adept at making these individuals distinctive so that we don’t get too confused as to who’s who on the island of Aratu. Linking it all together is of […]

Cynical but insightful

Nick Yapp: Bluff Your Way in Teaching Ravette Publishing 1998 (1987) This fell out of the bookshelves recently where it had somehow got wodged in and unnoticed. I didn’t ignore the irony as I myself had somehow got wodged into school education, only managing to extricate myself many years later by the skin of my teeth […]

The Island of Pearl Snakes

Joan Aiken’s Limbo Lodge (1998) is one of the most detailed of the Wolves Chronicles to date, certainly in terms of the chronicles’ internal chronology if not their writing history. I have copious notes taken over the years on the characters, on the Aratu language, on board games around the world, on the novel’s timeline and on […]

Rooms in a doll’s house

Tove Jansson: Art in Nature Dockskåpet (1978) translated by Thomas Teal Sort Of Books 2012 Art in Nature presents us with extraordinarily intimate portraits of Finns and others caught up in a variety of situations. Taking its English title from the first of these eleven offerings by Tove Jansson, its original Swedish title was actually drawn from the […]

Dido in danger

Joan Aiken: Limbo Lodge (Dangerous Games in the US) Red Fox 2004 (1999) On the back cover of my edition of Limbo Lodge is a quote from Philip Pullman: What I relish in particular is the swiftness of the telling, the vigour with which brilliant moments of perception seem to be improvised in the sheer […]

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