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Monthly Archives: September 2015
Inch of the Day 30 September 2015: Walking the White Cliffs and Looking at an Horizon
As it was my husband’s birthday today and the weather was fine, we drove down to an old and favourite walking haunt, St Margaret’s at Cliffe. We lunched at The Pines Garden Tea Rooms as usual, which serves mega-amounts of delicious dishes prepared … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Inspiration, Stitch, Stitch, Walking
Tagged Dover, St Margaret's at Cliffe, The Pines Garden, Walking
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Inch of the Day 29 September 2015: Plaster of Paris Accordion Book in Progress
Went out today, bought birthday presents, cards, wrapping paper, new jeans and top for myself as I’ve lost weight and most of my current clothes are too big now. Came home, wrapped the presents, wrote the cards, went out again to … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Art Journal, Encaustic Art, Mixed Media
Tagged accordion book, Artists Books, Encausticamp, Plaster of Paris Accordion Book
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Inch of the Day 28 September 2015: Eco Print with Blood Moon
Posted in Art, Collage & Assemblage, Eco/Natural Dyeing and Printing, Mixed Media
Tagged blood moon, Eco Print
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Walking the Cosmos: Blood Moon
Yes, I stayed up most of the night to watch the super blood moon total lunar eclipse. It began about 1 in the morning here in southern England with a bit of red on the top curve and then I … Continue reading
Supermoon Blood Moon: Be Still and Listen, The Earth is Singing …
I’d been singing all day. Lots of lyrics, but these ones keep putting themselves before me at the moment: So that the sun shall not burn thee by day, neither the moon at night and then I came home … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Poetry, Writing
Tagged blood moon, illustration, Poetry, Supermoon, Year of the Rabbit. Chinese Astrology
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How to Achieve Great Things: Walking the Fractal Way
I’m in bringing small things together mode. I have a lot of them. It’s time they were introduced to one another. Arrows and fans, hexagons and cells and circles and … In the hope I create something great, rather than … Continue reading
Inch of the Day 23 September 2015: Singing: Ave Maria: Javier Busto
Today I’ve been practising not the above, but John Rutter’s O Clap Your Hands, from his Psalmfest, for the choral society rehearsal tomorrow night. But I don’t want to Rutter everybody to death (though I could listen to and sing his … Continue reading
Posted in Choral singing, Music, Singing, Singing Sacred, spirituality
Tagged Ave Maria, choral music, Javier Busto, Spanish Basque
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Inch of the Day 22 September 2015: Hurdling Through Flint and Feather
Following on from yesterday’s Inch – about the editing of my novel manuscript, Flint and Feather, I began a revision of the scenes by calling them, instead of scenes, obstacles. In the sense of obstacles to be overcome. I didn’t just change the … Continue reading
Inch of the Day Monday 21 September 2015: Singing the Life Fantastic
I did an inch of thinking this morning and made an inch of headway on yesterday’s decision to do a backward synopsis of my novel–in–edit. I worked an inch of the allotment – under more than an inch of cold rain, … Continue reading
Inch of the Day 2 September 2015: Edit of Tale Two of Trio of Tales ‘Leaves’ : Adam and Evelyn
I switched off the phone to avoid the wife’s, “HowyouhavethenervetoabandonyourfamilyatChristmastimealmostIdon’tknowbutyou’dbetternotcomebackstinkingofwhiskyandwomenasusualandmaybeyoushouldnotbothercomingbackatallthistime,”and my brat-pack teenage duo’s non-stop harping for expensive gadgets or the money to buy them and probably enough spliff to kill a small herd of highland cattle.
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Posted in Christian writing, Short Story Writing, Writing
Tagged Adam and Evelyn, Editing Fiction, Short Fiction, short story, Short Tale
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