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Half-English, half-French, half-Scots KC @ropewalklaw. Chair @NottmCityOfLit. Completing biography of Capt FC Dietrichsen.
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“Where are the songs of spring? Ay, Where are they?” … hereabouts #Coquet #Northumberland

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Encore! - András Schiff Brahms Intermezzo in A major op.118 no.2 www.youtube.com/watch?v=k418...

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Papageno is go #OperaNorth #Newcastle

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This looks great - please share :)

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Holiday … read, rest and play. Glad to have met this haul

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“When we say we’re looking for a spiritual adviser, we’re really looking for someone to tell us what to do with our bodies. Decisions of the flesh. We forget to learn from pleasure as well as pain” - ‘Fugitive Pieces’, Anne Michaels - Renoir

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Limin’

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“Arriving at each new city, the traveller finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places.” - Italo Calvino, ‘Invisible Cities’

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XL Vance not litigating issues through the media (Photo: Getty)

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“Like all lovers, they spoke much of themselves, as if they might thereby understand the world which made them possible.” - John Williams, ‘Stoner’ (painting: Pierre Auguste Cot, ‘The Storm’)

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“Gathering is peculiar, because you see nothing but what you are looking for. If you’re picking raspberries, you only see red, and if you’re looking for bones you only see white.” - ‘The Summer Book’, Tove Jannson

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“It is often essential to resist a tyranny before it exists. It is no answer to say, with a distant optimism, that the scheme is only in the air. A blow from a hatchet can only be parried while it is in the air.” G.K.Chesterton via tomasmurray.bsky.social

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“There’s something about first love, isn’t there?”, she said. “It’s untouchable to those who played no part in it. But it’s the measure of all that follows.” - Sarah Winman, ‘Tin Man’

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“No hay pájaros en los  nidos de antaño” - Spanish Proverb “For Time will teach thee soon the truth,   There are no birds in last year's nest!” - the concluding lines of ‘It Is Not Always May’ by Henry Wandsworth Longfellow

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River rose

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Happy Healey!

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“Midwinter spring is its own season Sempiternal though sodden towards sundown, Suspended in time, between pole and tropic. When the short day is brightest, with frost and fire, The brief sun flames the ice, on pond and ditches” - Little Gidding, T.S.Eliot

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Doing the Maths: “According to the Office of Budget Responsibility (OBR), the UK's fiscal watchdog, Brexit will reduce productivity by 4 per cent in the long run, compared to a Britain that remained in the EU.” Not quite apples v apples, but 4% down v 0.4% up … ???

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Four years late to this - No Suprises (Kindly posted by Juan Francisco Padilla, the guitarist) www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yUT...

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Burns Night Curio - duck or Moore?

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Rowan-clad gable

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Il Gattopardo

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Chrysippus, it is said, died laughing at one of his own jokes. Uncanny resemblance, I am told.

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Do watch and marvel … what a voice. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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“If I knew where poems came from, I’d go there” - rest in peace, the great Michael Longley 🖼 ‘Blue Poppies’, Odilon Redon

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I guess the quadrennial news avoidance starts today #CryingShame

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‘Utrus Horas’, Orchestra Baobab - a great moment in vinyl history from the specialists in all styles. www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4yF...

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