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Bits and pieces
This is the place for posts which don’t fit into other categories… unless they were a category all to themselves!
A silly mistake…
A silly mistake led me back to this poem which I haven’t read since I was much much younger: Mushrooms Overnight, very Whitely, discreetly, Very quietly Our toes, our noses Take hold on the loam, Acquire the air. Nobody sees us, Stops us, betrays us; The small grains make room. Soft fists insist on Heaving […]
MoreGrill
This extremely fancy and very old grill, measuring about 40cm by 60cm, maybe slightly smaller, is set into a very old wall in Bridgwater, just near the River Parrett. I’ve no idea what the building might have been; the grill looks as if it was put there for ventilation rather as a secure window so maybe this was an old warehouse […]
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Nothing sadder than a wrecked boat
We live very near the sea; the River Axe runs into the Severn Channel by Uphill, our village, and many people have boats moored there or in the marina. No-one is supposed to live on their boats here, but someone did and incurred some fines. Rather than pay them he either tried to head out to sea, or deliberately grounded […]
MoreTravelling home…
Carrickfergus is a large and the oldest town in County Antrim. On our recent trip to Ireland we called in for lunch on our way back to the airport. It had been a showery day, but the sun came out as we found a nice place by the harbour to have lunch. We had taken the coast road, through Ballycastle, and through […]
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Dark Hedges… I didn’t see the pale ghost
We recently visited Ulster to take my daughter to University there. We know the area so well, have been there many times, but the wonderful thing about the place is that it always shows us something new. On the road between the small village of Armoy and Gracehill Golf Club… Some of these trees are nearly three hundred years old. If […]
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