Lois Elsden
WRITER
Too dark for vision, too deep for sound,
John Masefield is a poet whose imagery leaps off the page, whether it is exciting, or joyous, or as here, the absolute opposite… and an absolute opposite to yesterday’s sonnet: There, on the darkened deathbed, dies the brain That flared three several times in seventy years; It cannot lift the silly hand again, Nor speak, […]
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Ulster fry
Most people know what a full English breakfast is, sometimes described as the full Monty (is that where the phrase came from?) but many think that the best start to the day is an Ulster fry! This Northern Irish speciality will set you up perfectly for the day ahead; it consists of a variety of […]
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Touching the past
I have posted this before,but I come back to it because it fascinates me… the fact that I’ve indirectly had contact with someone born almost two hundred years ago. I suppose it registered because the story I have been writing is about a family in search of their roots… but in order to make their […]
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