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Wycoller Scarecrow
  • Oct 11, 2018
  • 2 min

Autumn in Wycoller

Curiously, the world didn't fall apart when I failed to press 'Publish' on my Caedmon blog yesterday! Anyway, it's there now. I have to c...

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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 9, 2018
  • 2 min

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Yesterday evening, I went to St. John's Church in Ben Rhydding where Simon Armitage read from his latest translation of Sir Gawain and th...

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Wycoller Scarecrow
  • Oct 8, 2018
  • 1 min

Philosophical Psychologists Present Problems!

Having spent comfortably over half a century studying and teaching English Literature, I was startled about two weeks ago to discover a n...

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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 6, 2018
  • 2 min

If you go down in the woods today ...

When I was at Minsthorpe College a couple of days ago, the students wanted to know how I got the ideas for my writing. I mentioned Molly'...

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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 3, 2018
  • 1 min

Pharaoh and Baboons

I'm an early riser. Essentially, it's the way I'm made - normally waking between 6.00 and 6.30. These days, it's also an assisted wake-up...

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Wycoller Scarecrow
  • Oct 2, 2018
  • 1 min

Triple-decker Pulpit

Pulpits were introduced into English churches after the Reformation in the Sixteenth Century, when the Church of England broke away from ...

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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 30, 2018
  • 2 min

The Judge, The Professor and the Actor

Ilkley's 17-day Literature Festival offers a dazzling array of speakers at more than 240 events. Yesterday, I attended three of them. San...

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Wycoller Scarecrow
  • Sep 29, 2018
  • 1 min

Mists and Mellow Fruitfulness

Several of my friends become depressed at this time of year, dread of winter denying them the joys of autumn's brilliance. By contrast, I...

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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 27, 2018
  • 1 min

Zaffar Kunial's Maiden Flight

The swan has often been the symbol for a poet, as in the famous tribute to Shakespeare by Ben Jonson - here used as a title for my photog...

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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 25, 2018
  • 2 min

Will the real William Shakespeare please stand up!

From time to time, Luisa (my Italian friend in Brescia) and I exchange something to translate and then compare the results. For next week...

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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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