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Vale Cynthia Jobin
On my return to blogging in April, I was deeply saddened to discover that one of my favourite poets of all time had died in December 2016. Cynthia Jobin was a blogging friend and a masterful poet,...
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Art for Dummies
Words fail me at the moment, so I’ve been doing a bit of postcard colouring instead, using the output as birthday and thank you cards. Quite smudgy in places, but life is not lived by colouring between...
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Snow Monkeys of Jigokudani
The friendly, helpful staff at Kanazawa Station Visitors’ Centre advised me not to attempt a day trip to the Snow Monkeys from Kanazawa. Not unsound advice, but I ignored it anyway (as I only had time...
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Congratulations, Tilly Bud!
Now, this makes my heart glad via Exciting News! (For Me, Anyway)
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Smile
I chatted to this chap while riding the spectacular Tadami Line in the Fukushima Prefecture of Japan in January. He has travelled all over the world and, now retired, loves to travel on the Japanese...
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emoji-San
In February, this little creature came into our lives. Hello! Born in early November last year, he arrived from the breeder a bit worse for wear: our local vet confirmed he was underweight and treated...
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Joy
Last week, this funny, sweet floofie-bum turned one. He celebrated with his best friend, Millie, who joined our family in May this year. They bring us such joy.
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The sea knows loss, its ancient suspirations inhale terra firma grit by grit The sea knows abyssal hobgoblins well up from their deep-rutted trenches even on sunshiny days they manifest their stinking...
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Autumn
Autumn steals in like a quiet cat, looking for a warm place to settle. On the mountains in the copses and through the forests, the trees rustle amongst themselves, and blush at her touch. Do the...
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Notes from a KTM – December 2019 https://nosuchthingasordinary.wordpress.com/2020/01/03/notes-from-a-ktm-december-2019/ — Read on...
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Isadora
I’m riding pillion on the KTM beast when our silhouette on the damp bitumen paints my scarf flying like a Siamese fighter’s tailfin in the slipstream and I think of youIsadora and wonder if in that...
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In the Paddock
Leaning into corner after corner on a wheat-fringed country road, we come upona pair of vintage Renaults sitting side by sidein the paddock, like an old couple enjoying the sun. But age has wearied...
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Country Churches
Astride the KTM beast, we ride the country roads of New England, passing minicountry churches not big enough to swingan axe (other than the verbal kind). At the crossroadsin one hamlet, there are two,...
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Mr Tait
As I ride pillion through this primeval forest, I don’t thinkof the ancient trees, how they give us the smooth paper leaveson which we love to press down with granitemade from the centre of the earth;...
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Insomnia
I talk to them at 3am, my children, I tell them about the Doomsday Vault in Svalbard, how it’s beset by melting permafrost; I talk about the hairy frogfish, the predator- prey cycle of life, how...
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Poetry in the AI Age
I asked ChatGPT the following… This was its response… I then asked… We’re living in a whole new world. What do you think?
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