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Wycoller Scarecrow
- Oct 11, 2018
- 1 min
Caedmon
Listening to Simon Armitage in Ilkley, talking about his recent translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, made my mind flip back to...
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Wycoller Scarecrow
- Oct 7, 2018
- 2 min
The Mind is Flat
On Friday evening, I went to a talk by Nick Chater about his new book, The Mind is Flat. A brief summary is tricky, to say the least, but...
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Wycoller Scarecrow
- Oct 5, 2018
- 2 min
Birthday Treat
Ray Henshaw, a friend who is the Principal at Minsthorpe Community College, South Elmsall, kindly offered to set up some focus groups to ...
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Wycoller Scarecrow
- Oct 4, 2018
- 2 min
As You Like It
My 69th birthday today so I guess I am comfortably into the Sixth Age of Shakespeare's Seven Ages of Man: The sixth age shifts Into the l...
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Wycoller Scarecrow
- Oct 1, 2018
- 1 min
Hannah Sullivan
In a previous post I mentioned Us, the book of poetry recently published by Zaffar Kunial. Of course, Amazon immediately recommended anot...
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Wycoller Scarecrow
- Sep 28, 2018
- 2 min
H.M.S. Endeavour
Had I not been to Whitby earlier this year, the discovery of Captain Cook's ship, H.M.S. Endeavour, would probably have been of only pass...
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Wycoller Scarecrow
- Sep 26, 2018
- 1 min
Flora
I seem to be into connections at the moment. When my brother Rob came to visit, he kindly brought a large pot with a clump of flowers - t...
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Wycoller Scarecrow
- Sep 24, 2018
- 1 min
Sky Bather
Continuing from the blog about floorboards, what do you see when you look at this blurry image? As my eyes come to rest, the moon looks l...
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Wycoller Scarecrow
- Sep 23, 2018
- 2 min
The Heron
I woke earlier than usual this morning and, opening my email, found a message from my brother Rob. Attached to it were newspaper cuttings...
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Wycoller Scarecrow
- Sep 22, 2018
- 1 min
Seeing Things
When you look at carpets, walls, tree trunks, floorboards etc., do you see the figures there? In this picture, for example, if you look f...
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