Wednesday, 1 January 2020

2020: Beginnings and endings for a new decade

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"Every new Beginning comes from some other beginning's End"    from Seneca the Younger,  Roman stoic philosopher;  cera...
Saturday, 21 December 2019

Carols at Christmas: " All broad and bright rises th' Eternal Morning Star"

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King's College Chapel Window, Cambridge Music by Charles Gounod, lyrics by Henry F.. Chorley "Though poor be the ...
Monday, 2 December 2019

December beginnings: "far into the golden sea"

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 "  'Good-bye',  they were all crying. 'Good-bye, Peter. Good-bye, good-bye.'  And he meant to call out 'Good-bye...
Friday, 1 November 2019

November beginnings: "One watched, on the pale semicircular beach, wave after wave shedding again and again smoothly, a film of mother of pearl." Virginia Woolf, 1927

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    Godrevy  Lighthouse, St. Ives " 'What you need to do is get behind the counter, Richard.'  My Uncle George was spe...
Wednesday, 2 October 2019

October Beginnings: "see thy treacherous guile outreach, And perish in the pit thou mad'st for me" *

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  Passage du Pont-Neuf,  illustration by Horace Castelli, 1870 "At the end of the Rue Guenegaud, when you come up from the ri...
Sunday, 1 September 2019

September beginnings: 'And I would love you all the day…' John Gay 1728*

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"When Francis, fourth Viscount  Castlewood, came to his title, and presently after to take possession of his house of Castlewood, count...
Friday, 23 August 2019

The journey to Tintagel

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"Tintagel.  Black cliffs and caves and storm and wind, but I weather it out and take my ten miles a day walks in my weather-proofs....
Thursday, 1 August 2019

August beginnings: "A faire field ful of folke fond I there between "*

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  Animas, Hidalgo County, New Mexico  (Hidalgocounty.org wikimedia) "When they came south out of Grant county Boyd was not muc...
Saturday, 20 July 2019

Part 2. "The Moon takes up the wondrous tale" *

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Galileo's first refracting telescope, in the Museo Galileo, Florence The early telescopes were not perfect.  When  a founder memb...
Friday, 19 July 2019

Part 1. "Who announces the ages of the moon?" (Amergin, from the 12th century Irish Book of Leinster)

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We will all be moon gazing on 20th July, 50 years since the first man stepped onto the moon, that "mythical " body watched in the ...