A monthly miscellany from books, art, history and memories, usually with a theme for the 1st of the month. Ceramics and some English worthies are often featured.
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Tuesday 29 October 2013
"The inky rook"
"Only the inky rook,
Hunched cold in ruffled wings,
His snowy nest forsook,
Caws of unnumbered Springs."
Collected Poems Walter de la Mare
quoted by Philip Larkin in "Big Victims", New Statesman 1970
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