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Beach Day – Portraits

We went to Borth and swam in the sea and then lay in the sun and got burnt. It was marvellous. I took some photos. Me Liam MJ Kat Tom Rox Tim (wearing, by the way, Kat’s sunglasses) I’ll be back...

Apr 12, 2011 Like

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Bits and Pieces

{photo: how to catch a sun by Mlyutin} Patience Denise Levertov What patience a landscape has, like an old horse, head down in its field. Grey days, air and fine rain cling, become one, hovering...

Apr 5, 2011 Like

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Daffs and D H Lawrence

Well today I met one of my most wonderful friends, LJ, for a coffee and indulgent chat, and she gave me a bunch of daffodils. Made my day. (They may have got slightly crushed in our rather...

Apr 2, 2011 Like

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News

Hello. One friend told me she has no idea what’s going on in my life unless I’m blogging – so – this is for you S. (Can’t wait for you to get down here for your visit!) I’m back home which is...

Mar 30, 2011 Like

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a flying greeting

Oh readers, I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. This has been a tough week of churning out essays and poems, going to meetings, organising people, deadlines and so on. But tomorrow I am...

Mar 10, 2011 Like

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Tonight I went to see The Tempest by Cheek by Jowl in the Warwick Arts Centre. (On my own, might I add. I secretly love going to the cinema, to the theatre, for coffee, on my own). Russian company,...

Mar 5, 2011 Like

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I heart…

Taking a leaf out of Erica‘s book I’m going to tell you a few of the things in life that I most love. Non-book or poetry related. Guys, this will be informative for you. After you understand that I...

Mar 1, 2011 Like

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God Poems

I was away for the weekend, back in the shire for a training weekend with Christian Union mates. But I’m back and now facing the toughest three weeks of this term. Two essays to do, and tons of...

Feb 28, 2011 Like

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Dancing

A non-relevant but celebratory video for you today. Because I feel tired and bored and a bit dizzy. Nine o’clocks are not my cup of tea!

Feb 24, 2011 Like

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book of poems

A load of my peers will probably remember the AQA poetry anthology that we studied at GCSE… which actually had quite a lot of really decent contemporary poetry. The poems that always come back to...

Feb 23, 2011 Like

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Voyages

The quieter you travel, the farther you’ll get. – Russian Proverb I’ve been reading (or more like, watching) the blog Mr and Mrs Globe Trot for ages now and just ache with jealousy. Yeah I know we...

Feb 22, 2011 Like

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a last day in the shire

Today we went to Attingham Park for a bracing walk and to see the snowdrops. The whole family and my brother’s dog went, partly because this is my last day at home… Going back to uni tomorrow...

Feb 19, 2011 Like

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Country Poets

I am writing an essay on Romantic landscape poetry at the moment. Bring on John Clare. He is welcome back into my life, that poor sweet crazed farmhand. The Yellowhammer’s Nest By John Clare Just...

Feb 16, 2011 Like

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Ynyslas

I told you I’d tell you about Ynyslas. Well, this is the legend {via here}: This land used to be the Cantre’r Gwaelod, which extended some 20 miles west of the current shoreline into what is now...

Feb 15, 2011 Like

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all hail brother Valentine

LISTEN Hello lovelies. Happy Valentine’s day. I actually think Valentine’s day is brilliant. I don’t care if I don’t get a card or whatever, I just think the whole concept is so wonderfully mushy...

Feb 14, 2011 Like

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inspiration: dark and light

Sunflakes by Frank Asch If sunlight fell like snowflakes, gleaming yellow and so bright, we could build a sunman, we could have a sunball fight, we could watch the sunflakes drifting in the sky. We...

Feb 12, 2011 Like

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home again home again

Yep I caught an early train today and arrived on the platform of shrewsbury at 12.25. I was met by my mum and sister who took me out for lunch. We went for a mooch round the shops (actually just...

Feb 11, 2011 Like

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Craft Venture

Remember I said I was knitting while watching the Super Bowl? Well this is what I was knitting: I kept seeing people wearing these ear warmer things all winter, and I really wanted one. But the...

Feb 9, 2011 Like

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trying to write

Is there no hope for the lover of free verse! I woke up to this text this morning from my dear sister. It’s a quote from a letter from C S Lewis, a writer and lecturer at Oxford, to a girl called...

Feb 8, 2011 Like

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Super Bowl!!

Yes. I admit it. In fact, I embrace it. I watched the Super Bowl last night and loved it. To be fair, I was knitting while I watched, and also to be fair, I chickened out and went to bed at half...

Feb 7, 2011 Like

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artist: amy borell

I love the work of Amy Borell. I especially love this piece: If I had the motivation I would definitely do this. I have stacks of letters, postcards, mementos, photographs, just itching to be...

Feb 5, 2011 Like

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stormy weather

Checkout Ynyslas. I walked along this beach years ago and saw this fossilised forest… someday I’ll tell you the story behind it. Maybe next week. It’s really really stormy tonight! Exciting. It...

Feb 3, 2011 Like

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worldwide inspiration

All hail poetry international web. Convalescing from a sudden onslaught of some foul flu type thing I find myself void of inspiration (after yesterday’s wonderful escapade), hating the greyness of...

Feb 2, 2011 Like

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The Prank

Ah, Balthazar, you did me proud today. I asked you to send a letter to my friend who had been feeling a little melancholy. I gave you a few sparse details – that she has thick hair that she’s very...

Feb 1, 2011 Like

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thirteen

I have spent thirteen hours on campus today. THIRTEEN. Thirteen hours on campus with a cough like a bullfrog. It was freezing all day (but beautiful) and I had many things to do. It’s good to be...

Feb 1, 2011 Like

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plath’s baths

There must be quite a few things a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them. Whenever I’m sad I’m going to die, or so nervous I can’t sleep, or in love with somebody I won’t be seeing for...

Jan 30, 2011 Like

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Seth Lakeman

I am so going to see this wonderful man live. Again. In London this time. Can you tell I’m excited?

Jan 30, 2011 Like

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thinking about coming back to wordpress

{images by the incredible paul de luna} Variation on a Theme by Rilke A certain day became a presence to me; there it was, confronting me--a sky, air, light: a being. And before it started to...

Jan 30, 2011 Like

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switch

Hurry on over to my tumblr! You’re missing all the fun!

Dec 17, 2010 Like

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migration

Chums. I’m moving this gig over to tumblr. Just for a laugh. No, actually, tumblr suits my blogging pattern at the moment – less time required, and also, it’s just pretty. So if you love me, follow...

Dec 16, 2010 Like

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sisters and sparrows

Beach Day – Portraits

Bits and Pieces

Daffs and D H Lawrence

News

a flying greeting

The Tempest Was Amazing

I heart…

God Poems

Dancing

book of poems

Voyages

a last day in the shire

Country Poets

Ynyslas

all hail brother Valentine

inspiration: dark and light

home again home again

Craft Venture

trying to write

Super Bowl!!

artist: amy borell

stormy weather

worldwide inspiration

The Prank

thirteen

plath’s baths

Seth Lakeman

thinking about coming back to wordpress

switch

migration

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