at woods' edge shadow-silt nestles lumps of amber air floating ballrooms where midges dance brief lives away since before words on one side sun warm...
Rain heavy air, clear, fresh colours drenched. I walk through clinging grasses like hands welcoming. Summer condensing on twig ends in rowan berries...
Oh! I agree with you, Maxine, would feel too dizzy to want to eat sitting on such steep stairs :0) It does look magical though! And all that sunshine! Though I guess the heat must bounce off the walls. But we have had such a dark year so far,...
After reading your WONDERFUL description, I HAD to look up that cathedral :0) Never seen so much gold all in one place! Yet the outside of the building seemed quite stark and plain in the photos. You are right, what a lot of brilliant craft...
I am SO SORRY about all your fruit! Thank goodness you are not a farmer though! Must be terrifying getting storms like that when it is what you have to live on. Your elderly neighbour who has two homes, and grows so much, her garden must be...
I guess she must have found a way to filter it out. Maybe once she had left parliament it might have been easier to blame it all on biased reporting. There was a clip of her saying how those who had received contaminated blood were getting "the...
Thankyou Jane. He has suddenly got interested in the French Revolution (!) so we watched both parts of 1989 film French Revolution. Though a bit misleading, according to things I looked up later, it was the best I could find. One sad thing about...
I hope the flight got less scary! I am like your Manager at work about flying, so really enjoy reading braver people's accounts :0) Looking forward to reading yours. Meghan's 10 bikinis made me smile
That's my favourite place, too :0) Thankyou for reminding me with this beautiful poem. How you link "Wild sea corralled by cliffs/yearns for deeper oceans" with people's need to leave, to be given the opportunity to succeed, evokes the bravery...
You DID do a wonderful job of
Posted on Sat, 22 Jun 2024
You DID do a wonderful job of describing what you saw! Your loving Malta showed in every word
Read full commentPosted in Malta. Part Three.
Oh! I agree with you, Maxine,
Posted on Sun, 23 Jun 2024
Oh! I agree with you, Maxine, would feel too dizzy to want to eat sitting on such steep stairs :0) It does look magical though! And all that sunshine! Though I guess the heat must bounce off the walls. But we have had such a dark year so far,...
Read full commentPosted in Malta. Part Four.
After reading your WONDERFUL
Posted on Sat, 22 Jun 2024
After reading your WONDERFUL description, I HAD to look up that cathedral :0) Never seen so much gold all in one place! Yet the outside of the building seemed quite stark and plain in the photos. You are right, what a lot of brilliant craft...
Read full commentPosted in Malta. Part Three.
I am SO SORRY about all your
Posted on Sat, 22 Jun 2024
I am SO SORRY about all your fruit! Thank goodness you are not a farmer though! Must be terrifying getting storms like that when it is what you have to live on. Your elderly neighbour who has two homes, and grows so much, her garden must be...
Read full commentPosted in "For, being green, there is great hope" (quote from Shakespeare's HENRY VI PART 2, ACT 3 SCENE 1)
I guess she must have found a
Posted on Sat, 22 Jun 2024
I guess she must have found a way to filter it out. Maybe once she had left parliament it might have been easier to blame it all on biased reporting. There was a clip of her saying how those who had received contaminated blood were getting "the...
Read full commentPosted in "For, being green, there is great hope" (quote from Shakespeare's HENRY VI PART 2, ACT 3 SCENE 1)
Thankyou Jane. He has
Posted on Sat, 22 Jun 2024
Thankyou Jane. He has suddenly got interested in the French Revolution (!) so we watched both parts of 1989 film French Revolution. Though a bit misleading, according to things I looked up later, it was the best I could find. One sad thing about...
Read full commentPosted in "For, being green, there is great hope" (quote from Shakespeare's HENRY VI PART 2, ACT 3 SCENE 1)
Gosh! What a fabulous place!!
Posted on Wed, 19 Jun 2024
Gosh! What a fabulous place!!!
Read full commentPosted in Malta Part 2.
I hope this does well, has
Posted on Wed, 19 Jun 2024
I hope this does well, has been fun reading it here
Read full commentPosted in 18 Just Use the Thing
I hope the flight got less
Posted on Sun, 16 Jun 2024
I hope the flight got less scary! I am like your Manager at work about flying, so really enjoy reading braver people's accounts :0) Looking forward to reading yours. Meghan's 10 bikinis made me smile
Read full commentPosted in Malta Part One
That's my favourite place,
Posted on Mon, 17 Jun 2024
That's my favourite place, too :0) Thankyou for reminding me with this beautiful poem. How you link "Wild sea corralled by cliffs/yearns for deeper oceans" with people's need to leave, to be given the opportunity to succeed, evokes the bravery...
Read full commentPosted in West of Ireland
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