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Freshening!

By Rhiannonw on Fri, 08 Sep 2023

Blowing, freshening, blustery gusts bracing, racing, whisking, frisking, decluttering clinging, clogging cobwebs – cast out fast by whooshing blast...

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Moods of Ocean and River

By Rhiannonw on Thu, 07 Sep 2023

Swelling, surging, heaving … placid calm … Hustling, bustling narrow stream tumbles into gentle Monnow which …

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Birdsong: Listen!

By Rhiannonw on Tue, 05 Sep 2023

[Afternoon on the hill] Burbling song … [Evening in the garden] Rich, deep trilling …

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‘Useless Useful’ becomes Useful!

By Rhiannonw on Sun, 03 Sep 2023

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] Onesimus ran from the home where he lived – a slave to a master whose good care he’d grieved. The master had...

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A lovely picture of sitting

Posted on Sat, 24 Jul 2021

A lovely picture of sitting in the warm days watching the busy bees in the flowers. Those individual flowers as they move into them are so attractive aren't they? I don't know phacelia, though I think it may be one we had difficulty identifying...

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What an experience!

Posted on Fri, 23 Jul 2021

What an experience! Fascinating to read the various accounts. Has she written any more herself about the time? Rhiannon

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delightful picture and useful

Posted on Thu, 22 Jul 2021

delightful picture and useful metaphor! Hard to apologise and retract too. Rhiannon

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I'm always surprised to

Posted on Tue, 20 Jul 2021

I'm always surprised to realise how much travel occurred for many at that time with jobs in India and the Far East, aware of how much more difficult and slow travel was then. And then to realise how easily writing could be lost at sea, with no '...

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Know so much about him, yet

Posted on Fri, 16 Jul 2021

Know so much about him, yet feel I know or understand him hardly at all, because of what he didn't tell or share, and the culture/language barrier!. But an interesting read! Rhiannon

Posted in Maria's Diary 33

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I like that you seem to be

Posted on Wed, 14 Jul 2021

I like that you seem to be showing that 'coming home' is returning to your loved one(s) and recontacting/reconnencting with eye communication, not just the return to a family house! Rhiannon

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As one gets older there are

Posted on Tue, 13 Jul 2021

As one gets older there are bound to be more deaths to face, especially in that era, but they have had to face a lot at once. It is sobering reading. He himself seems a strange mix of confidence in his own judgements, and hurt at other's...

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It sounds as if those pirate

Posted on Fri, 09 Jul 2021

It sounds as if those pirate ships were stirring up trouble, or taking advantage. Sad suspicion and ill feeling and lack of understanding showing up again, and lack of really trusted negotiatiors, and explainers?! All very interesting glimpses of...

Posted in Maria's Diary 31

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And of Hong Kong in that era

Posted on Tue, 06 Jul 2021

And of Hong Kong in that era too. Is there more information about the orphanage and the other charities to come? I didn't realise that they had such a humidity problem. Rhiannon

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So often a tension between

Posted on Fri, 02 Jul 2021

So often a tension between wanting to promote trade to other countries, but suspicion, lack of trust, difficulties of communication because of language, culture and long isolation, and of course many times neither nationality always behaving well...