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Bus Pass Has an Adventure

In Scotland, bus passes are available to everyone over sixty. This summer I thought I’d take mine out on some adventures, like the ‘Famous Five’. ‘...
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Spontaneous

It was a Schiaparelli pink day. Briar roses and campions deep pink against the dove-grey sky. Thunder wanting another roll with us. North wind...
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That's Lucky

Yesterday I picked a few hedgerow plants to use for cyanotype images. A dandelion clock, buttercups, ground elder, grasses, cow parsley. The more...
Cherry

"...Sometimes...You Get What You Need"*

Movement births ideas. Heels down, breathing in and breathing out; ‘Get up earlier, walk first’. Sparked a notion, for a woodland walk. Wrack wood,...
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Wild

Rainy Sunday, the chilly haar crept back. Suits me fine, I have been getting things done, enjoying that particular pleasure of scoring them off the...
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The Campaign For Terrence Oblong - Peter Buckley Hill and the Free Fringe

Peter Buckley Hill was an aspiring comedian who decided to become an international star by hiring a venue at the Edinburgh Festival. His act mixed...
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10,839 Steps

I estimate, on the Beaufort scale, that the sea was ‘slight’ today, the breeze ‘gentle’. What did the sea sound like? Whispering kids at bedtime who...
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Chuwl (Hebrew: to dance in a whirl)

Friday evening, full moon waning, the haar cleared, returning the hills to the town. Sun peeped through and a cooling breeze blew the last ghostly...

Dolce Far Niente?

We need good rest, and to appreciate the ‘sweetness of doing nothing’. But pretty soon nothingness gets irritating, and starts to hurt your back...
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