It’s been a busy couple of weeks and this month’s Six Degrees of Separation caught me by surprise. Hosted every month by Kate at books are my favourite and best, we each begin with the same starter book and link a further 6 books to make a chain. Each book only needs to link to the one immediately before it. Being late to the party this month, I managed to resist reading any other chains until I’d got my own links in place. Continue reading “Six Degrees of Separation: from Memoirs of a Geisha to …”
The View from Here: Buzzards in March
Painting with Words
They were displaying all day: soaring on the updrafts above the fields across the valley. But now comes something quite different. Continue reading “The View from Here: Buzzards in March”
A Triptych on Dartmoor: patience is its own reward
The third of three
The fire was warm; the chairs were comfortable
Reverend Baring-Gould’s A History of Dartmoor would have looked perfect, lying carelessly on this polished table. Continue reading “A Triptych on Dartmoor: patience is its own reward”
A Triptych on Dartmoor: a tor, a trip, a tourist tale
Second of three
Sometimes stories are necessary for quieting the soul
Bogs … prisons … tors …
It is said that no matter where you look on Dartmoor, you can’t help but have a tor in view. Frustrating then, that I managed to miss all of them in the wider landscape shots I took. But we did spend some time getting acquainted with one tor in particular. Continue reading “A Triptych on Dartmoor: a tor, a trip, a tourist tale”
A Triptych on Dartmoor: two wars; one church; one prison and a teller of tales
First of three
Beginning with useful advice on bogs
Three related posts that have hung around for too long, so much so that I’ve been tempted to ditch them as being out of date and of relatively little interest. They were supposed to be three short posts. They’ve grown. There’s a lesson there…
Continue reading “A Triptych on Dartmoor: two wars; one church; one prison and a teller of tales”
Jenny Wren by E H Young
Today is the birthday of E H Young, another writer appearing in the delightful Birthday Book of Underappreciated Lady Authors hosted by Jane at Beyond Eden Rock. Continue reading “Jenny Wren by E H Young”
My Third Classics Club Spin
2nd March
On March 1st the latest Classics Club spin was announced. This will be spin number 17 for the club and my third. It’s a year since I last participated – in part because it took me almost all that time (with gaps) to read my last spin choice, which was J. B. Priestley’s The Good Companions. That book finally finished (though not yet reviewed – no great surprise there), I’m ready for the next spin. Details of how it works can be found here. Continue reading “My Third Classics Club Spin”
