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Chimera Book 1 / Chapter 18 – The Other Carousel Horse
Dan Snelgrove and I rather left things dangling on a bit of a cliffhanger at the end of Chapter 17, what with Kyp, Jamie, Bertram Fusby and Sir Regulus Ferric hurtling towards certain doom… so… Read more
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The Kick-About #25 ‘The Age Of Aquarius’
With its associations with protest and freedom of expression, this week’s prompt, courtesy of Kerfe Roig, returns us somewhat to the untaming of our last Kick-About together, but just like everyone else, I suspect, I’ve… Read more
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Throwback Friday #50 Euphorbias Anonymous
I don’t know when these photographs were taken, or which particular type of euphorbia it might be, but I was inspired to share them for this week’s Throwback Friday on account of the great lime… Read more
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MFT #12 Invasion Of The Body-Snatchers (1956)
I can’t recall when I first saw Invasion Of The Body-Snatchers – most likely on BBC2, opposite the six o clock news, when I was nine or ten, which was where, and when, they always… Read more
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Blackthorn At Fox’s Cross #2 (2021)
A few more photographs from the blousy clouds of blackthorn blossom at Fox’s Cross. I’m rather reminded, happily, of The Wicker Man…. Read more
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Blackthorn At Fox’s Cross #1 (2021)
On Tuesday, we went out in the late evening sunshine, which was pinkish and crystal-clean, to check out a particular field bordered by great long hedges of flowering blackthorn, and what a show of froth… Read more
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Throwback Friday #49 ‘5 Beams’ from ‘Three Five One’ (2016)
It took a lot of self-discipline not to entitle this 2016 photograph ‘Beam Me Up, Scotty’… Read more
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Glorious (2021)
I properly disappeared into this, our 24th Kick-About prompt, another complete world building around it and absorbing me completely. I kept discovering all these pockets of rage and sadness as I wrote this short story,… Read more
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The Kick-About #24 ‘You Were Once Wild Here. Don’t Let Them Tame You’
Arguably, the wunderkammers gathered together by the likes of Ole Worm – our last prompt – represent pure expressions of human curiosity, untamed by such things as order, category, reason, or taxonomy, where the real… Read more
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Throwback Friday #48 The Requiem Seven (2014)
Back in 2014, I had the pleasure of devising and creatively directing an EU-funded ‘visualisation of classical music’ project in collaboration with my students, alumni and staff. Our mission was to take on Verdi’s mighty… Read more
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