Category: Art
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Jane Austen was born 250 years ago in Hampshire and is regarded by many as England’s greatest female author. Writing in an age when women were not considered to have credibility in the arts she had to fight a society seeped in misogamy and had written both Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice by…
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My grandfather Gordon Ariss from Birmingham UK, boarded the ship HMT Rohna on the 25th November 1943, along with 1,981 American soldiers. The next day the ship was attacked by a wave of German aircraft. They appeared to have weathered the attack until they were hit by a recently devised radio controlled bomb. It proved…
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Any creative process can be a question of trial and error, and that includes blogs. Not many of us write a piece in one flow, make a little tweak before considering it good enough to go and excitedly click ‘publish’. Well some may, but they have clearly made a pact with the devil. Or they…
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A local cinema years in decay now refurbished, re-loved, and ready to open it’s doors again For Debbie’s One Word Sunday
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I am currently sorting through a houseful of ‘stuff’ ahead of a potential move in the next couple of months. De-cluttering is the modern phrase for it. Throwing out crap is what some may prefer to call it. Fortunately I don’t have much crap, but certainly a lot of stuff that should have been thrown…
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On December 14th 2020 I posted a blog – only my seventh blog at the time – ruminating that Jesus seems to have less and less exposure at Christmas. It was in large part inspired by a bulletin I wrote for a charity one mid-summer informing all their shops that Christmas cards were being distributed…
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Never having been an art lover I surprised myself recently by signing up, quite excitedly I have to say, for an exhibition of the work of Vincent Van Gogh entitled Beyond Van Gogh. Despite never having previously taken any interest in his work I nonetheless got up early and got myself down to the Exhibition…
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