Sweet-smelling stocks
The alliterative prelude to a verbal bouquet of flowers, perfume-fanning the colour bursts of alliums, foxgloves, poppies and columbines.Â
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Meet the Barone
Listening time: under 4 minutes.Â
Casting back across the sweep of history, there is only a handful of...
The innocent forest
A wonderful image of splendid towering trees innocent in their virgin forests, untouched by axe, unaware of their future forging...
Summer’s end
Just as you sense a sadness at the departing summer, the arrival of Goldmund brings a great waft of warm...
The urge of bees
A charming way to convey the genesis of ideas or desires, likening them to the urge of bees to make...
The first golden age
Continuing his retelling of the myth of Creation, Ted Hughes reminds us of a first golden age...
Heart-drenching beauty
From Nicolson's superb book on Sissinghurst and his family's relationship with it, including its transition to more public ownership. He...
Do what a hero must
Naturally, any would-be hero or heroine needs to set sail, or how are they to prove their worth? Clive James,...
Alighting stars
I like this hint of stars being both lit up and alighting in their permanent positions in the firmament, after...
Music as trinity
Aldous Huxley here likens music to the Trinity due to its capacity to say more than one thing at the...
Definitions of philosophy I
This irreverent definition of philosophy made me smile, though with the current invasion of Ukraine, 'the finding of bad reasons'...
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