Poems for my family 010 – Gumilyov
Listening time: under 4 minutes. I discovered this poem in my early twenties, possibly while first living and...
An electric moment
Having a soft spot for foxes, I loved this description of a hair-raising drive careering through the mountain roads of...
A waste of an island
Wonderful notion this, from one of the best of Ransome's enchanting children's books. Of course if you land on an...
Sheer from the sea
In 1916, in the middle of the First World War, Louis Golding sailed passed Ithaca. Minds were on other things...
Arthur Ransome – cover illustrations
If you've been following WritingRedux, you may have noticed a number of pawky playful gems from Arthur Ransome's children's books....
Why fight?
Rory Stewart's trek across Afghanistan allowed him to meet some colourful characters. Here he questions one of them to understand...
Foreign-going steamship
All the romance and none of the hardship in these three words.
Source: Arthur Ransome, Coot Club
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What’s the difference?
On his long trek across some of the remoter regions of Afghanistan, Rory Stewart found himself being presented as having...
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