I can see that having another blog to look after is going to make it harder to keep up appearances here, so just in case anyone is missing me, I’m posting my first week of responses to January’s smallstone challenge. These have appeared mostly on Twitter, and I thought it would be good to keep a more … Continue reading Small stones in a river
#smallstone no. 4 Today I walked to work, just for a change. The pub on the corner, The Salutation, is under new management. ‘Welcomes customers old and new,’ says the banner strung outside. On the adjacent wall is the pub sign, in quattrocento colours, an Annunciation. I’m as surprised as I think the management would be … Continue reading Noticing
Here are two books about travelling in Britain that couldn’t be more different, since one is a real life contemporary travelogue and the other is fiction set in the Plague Year of 1348. But I liked both of them a great deal and so I’m taking the opportunity to pair them up (so there!) I … Continue reading Company of Liars and Are We Nearly there Yet?
Mindful somehow implies lyrical. But this is what came along for my first #smallstones Biding her Time The ‘lovely Amaryllis’ sits squat and mutinous in her plastic pot. After the indignity of the journey she expected warmth, comfort, hospitality at least! But this window-sill is draughty, the watery daylight no substitute for sun. Her bare … Continue reading Small Stones (1)
How to get back to writing after a break? My mental switch-off started well before Christmas when I took a holiday that turned out to be both self-indulgent (manicure and massage for madam?) and tiring (two night flights). Then there was the supermarket sweep (or three) to prepare for influx of visitors, ending in that all … Continue reading Started early, wrote my blog
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