patrick-mcc.bsky.social
A wanderer, wonderer and picker-up of unconsidered trifles.
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Perhaps a meaningful coincidence? 😉
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Wonderful - just this morning I read your article "Gods at the margins" in @historytoday.com, so I am now fully primed to whip out my credit card for the book. And on St John's Eve, too! Coincidence, or clever marketing? 😄
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Ah, yes, Llangelynnin! One of my favourite places in Meirionydd and one I return to each time I'm in the "Little Kingdom by the Sea" between the Mawddach and the Dyfi.
It has a silent persistence, holding the paradoxical presence of long gone worshippers from hillside and fields. And, oh, the view!
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.. this picture is "Norham Castle, Sunrise". See: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norham_...
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And here's Monkey (chip name Milo, btw) cooling himself on the kitchen tiles. With his high thread count fur, he's finding the heat and humidity a little too much. He sends cooling greetings (and a few of his trademark fishy kisses) to his tabby namesake. #caturday
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As Shaun says of his brother Joyce/Shem: "He's weird, I tell you, and middayevil down to his vegetable soul."
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JJ refers to this critical colour when, as Shem the Penman in the Wake, he pores over "his usylessly unreadable Blue Book of Eccles". #jamesjoyce #ulysses #bloomsday
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Many moons ago, as I dithered over UCCA forms, Alec Merrison assisted me in trying to decide between NatSci or EngLit. The fire in words drew me the strongest. Ah, the road not taken!
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Thanks for the repost, @cduigan.bsky.social
For completeness and to complement the wonderful link from @gwallter.bsky.social, here's the church at Capel-y-ffin #blackmountains #cymru #wales
The v fine east window is in memory of Alec Merrison, physicist and vice-chancellor of University of Bristol.
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I remember this from a mesmerising visit to the Villa Giulia museum in Rome. Their smiles! Happy together gor eternity.
See the third verse of Heaney's "The Sharping Stone": omss-poem.blogspot.com/2008/12/seam...
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Snap!
But not intentionally, just in a lapse of attention during a tedious business meeting on a hot afternoon in the City.
I stared at it, lying flush to the skin of my thumb, rather surprised by what had happened. It didn't hurt until I pulled it out.
Oh, how everyone (myself excepted) laughed!
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Not as impressive, but here's the horse chestnut aflame amongst the buttercups in the field.
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What a sight, golden indeed!
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I'm *very* much looking forward to browsing the book when I receive my copy. These images are really whetting my appetite - I confess that those of Barmouth / Mawddach / Cader Idris dampened my eyes somewhat 🥲😊
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Inside the Carn Euny fogou 🌺
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In Palmerland it was, and will always be, "In a Shoreham Garden". The spring light radiating off the fat blossom, the figure in seemingly ecstatic contemplation, and the promise of fruitful abundance.
Tho' "The Valley Thick with Corn" runs a very, very close 2nd.
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Damn, those are just fine images 😍
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What a magical sight - I remember something similar in the Langdales one summer evening long ago. Truly special.
Am hoping to get to the top of Cader in August when I make my annual pilgrimage to Meirionydd.
Here's the path down to Minfordd a couple of years back after a dip in Llyn Cau!
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I make an annual pilgrimage each August. Always good, tho' there are changes in progress at the Hall.
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Not B&W, I'm afraid, it has to be in colour. Ratgoed Chapel, Aug '25
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Likewise, tho' this is an August BH. From Llangelynnin churchyard #cymru #Wales #eryri