Frost-wrapped fields
Norfolk is a small Netherlands of flat land and soaring firmament, cloud-churned. My grandmother lived there for about a decade...
Acorn-bearing boughs
This is the season of acorn crunching paths, after the boughs have released them. A couple of times on my...
Well-ordered spirit
Three simple words perhaps summing up the pinnacle of much spiritual seeking, especially if once reached, it spills over with...
Sky-cracking chiaroscuro
We've had a few rain-dousing days of storminess, and yesterday evening I enjoyed a sky-show of shifting banks of chiaroscuro...
Scum-skinned tide
Something alarmingly contemporary about this polluted surface in Dante's Inferno, especially when he discerns, through the miasma, dead souls fleeing.
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Light-hearted crew
May your crew be ever light-hearted.
Source: Arthur Ransome, Coot Club (London: Jonathan Cape, 2009 (1934)), p. 290
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Rheumy-eyed earl
Adam Nicolson appears to have grown up among the casual antiquity of aristocratic homes, leaving him with the childhood memory...
Moss-eyed rascal
You can't but help like such a maverick, something in the moss-coloured eyes, and the difference between him and the...
Squashed-fly biscuit
A hard, flat, rectangular British biscuit formally called ‘Garibaldi’, we called them ‘squashed-fly biscuits’ because of the tiny dark currants that...
Mist-mired horizontality
A surprising dimension to flat lands in winter - that they appear all the more horizontal when swathed in mist....
New-grown green
At the precocious signal of spring, I see new-grown green peeping all about. And isn't that a sweet scene, sitting...
Time-shrinking phrase
A striking triologism for a phrase which arrests and compresses time, as indeed, Heaney's does. Â
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