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Tebay Services

Posted on January 30, 2019 by yawnthepost

A waxed paper sauce pot paradise.

| Tagged Coleridge, Cumbria, England, Lake District, M6, motorway, poetry, roadbuilding, Wordsworth | Leave a comment

Bass Rock

Posted on January 26, 2019 by yawnthepost

An island off the east coast of Scotland, where gannets live within a stabbing circumference of each other.

| Tagged Edinburgh, gannets, Scotland, the Fringe | Leave a comment

Chesterfield

Posted on January 23, 2019 by yawnthepost

Apollo 8, the first colour TVs, asbestos, plague and Chesterfield’s twisted spire.

| Tagged Apollo, Apollo 8, asbestos, Chesterfield, England, plague, the Moon | Leave a comment

Inner Farne

Posted on January 18, 2019 by yawnthepost

A boat trip from Seahouses to the Farne Islands escorted by a squadron of puffins.

| Tagged England, Grace Darling, Hitchcock, Northumberland, puffins, Seahouses, the Farne Islands, the sea, wildlife | Leave a comment

County Clare

Posted on January 16, 2019 by yawnthepost

Bobby Casey, County Clare’s fiddling superstar.

| Tagged Dublin, fiddling, Ireland, music, the Burren | Leave a comment

Whitstable

Posted on January 13, 2019 by yawnthepost

In which Peter Cushing whispers to his roses.

| Tagged England, films, food, Peter Cushing, podcast, the coast, the sea, towns | Leave a comment

Usk

Posted on January 13, 2019 by yawnthepost

Do not hope to find the white hart.

| Tagged castles, history, Owain Glyndwr, podcast, Richard ll, rivers, towns, TS Eliot, Wales | Leave a comment

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    • The Omphalos, Sandycove February 2, 2021
      The Omphalos, Sandycove, near Dublin, is a Martello tower and the setting of the opening chapters of James Joyce’s Ulysses. ‘Omphalos’ is the Greek for ‘navel’, the centre of the ancient world. Ulysses is a navel novel.
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    • The Warminster Triangle January 5, 2021
      Reg Presley, suddenly rich from the proceeds of a hit song, devotes his money and time to uncovering the secrets of the Warminster Triangle: UFOs, crop circles and the changing shape of planet Earth. Reg is voiced by Long John Silver.
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    • Holywood, Belfast December 23, 2020
      Kathleen Schlesinger, born in Holywood, Belfast, in 1862, was a music archaeologist who published a major study of the ancient Greek wind instrument, the aulos. Her fascination with tuning systems led to lifelong collaboration with Australian microtonal composer Elsie Hamilton. Thanks to Kate Bowan for sending me a copy of her article ‘Living Between Worlds […]
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    • Silbury Hill November 3, 2020
      Silbury Hill – the largest man made mound in Europe – a solemn dome, a green whale, an alien submarine. Is it the Great Goddess? A watchtower? A swollen node on a ley line? No, it’s a big cake.
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    • Weston-Super-Mare October 27, 2020
      A cuttlefish squirts sepia ink and creates a pseudomorph of itself to divert predators. With a little more know-how it could manufacture 3d sepia images of Weston’s Grand Pier, its Big Wheel or Helicopter Museum.
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    • Acton, London W3 April 24, 2020
      Acton, London W3, where I discovered Welsh writer Arthur Machen in the library, slightly dishevelled, jacket all ripped.
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    • Paviland February 11, 2020
      Goat’s Hole Cave, Paviland, on the Gower peninsular, south Wales, is the site of a prehistoric ceremonial burial, one of the oldest in Europe and earliest evidence of modern humans on these islands. There are many such caves nearby, eerie, ancient dwelling places, described by the painter Ceri Richards as ‘black apples of Gower’.
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    • Cambridge November 13, 2019
      In Cambridge, looking for the Wittgenstein Archive, we find a brick wall, a skip and a white slip-on shoe.
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    • Dundee September 26, 2019
      In Dundee the boots of a seven foot giant stomp up the street. ‘Where is my creator?’ it howls. Mary Shelley hides behind the settee.
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    • Roseland August 23, 2019
      The Roseland peninsula, Cornwall, almost dreamlike, but its castles summon up images of an era when England was threatened with invasion from France and the Holy Roman Empire. Now the invaders are the wealthy middle classes, ramping up house prices, reviving Cornish nationalism and interest in the Cornish language.
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