Lois Elsden
WRITER
Michael Deacon makes me chuckle!
Michael Deacon is a parliamentary commentator for the Daily telegraph, and writes amusing but perceptive sketches about what goes on in Parliament; he also writes a TV columns and today he has excelled himself commenting on ‘The Great British Bake-Off’ a TV cookery show. Judges on talent shows are meant to be scary, but Paul Hollywood of The […]
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Shark week
A favourite website of mine is http://www.poets.org ; it has a wealth of poems from every age and from every corner of the world but it has much more. It has biographies of poets, articles about poetry, recordings of poets reading their own work… if you don’t know the site and you love poetry then you […]
MoreRed sails, green boat
Walking along the seafront, along the promenade at Portstewart in Northern Ireland, we came across this extraordinary and beautiful sculpture. At first we couldn’t make out what it was but just circled it admiringly, was it seaweed, was it a boat, a sea-bird, a fish, was it something from some Irish legend? It didn’t take […]
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On the River Lagan
I just liked the light on the water and the reflection of this little boat, the water seemed to reflect onto its hull making it shine.
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