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Writing tagged: ‘reminiscences’

6 September 2020

Watching yachts, and a walk along the Anglesey coast.

Published 06-Sep-2020
Filed under: Writing Tags: Anglesey, Anglesey 2020, birds, cormorants, gannets, peregrines, reminiscences, rock pipits, shags
Dad’s Swiss Army knife
Dad’s Swiss Army knife

21 July 2020

Dad does some archaeology.

Published 21-Jul-2020
Filed under: Writing Tags: dogs, reminiscences, Wirral

1st January 2020

Kathleen Jamie, and Shetland memories.

Published 01-Jan-2020
Filed under: Writing Tags: archaeology, Calder Valley, Christmas, Hebden Bridge, Kathleen Jamie, reminiscences, Shetland

23 August 2019

A sad anniversary.

Published 23-Aug-2019
Filed under: Writing Tags: reminiscences

20 July 2019

The fiftieth anniversary of the first moon-landing.

Published 20-Jul-2019
Filed under: Writing Tags: astronomy, reminiscences
Jay’s feather

23 June 2019

A topaz treasure, and suppressed claustrophobic memories.

Published 23-Jun-2019
Filed under: Writing Tags: birds, Calder Valley, curlews, dogs, Hebden Bridge, Liverpool, reminiscences, Robert Macfarlane, Shetland, Yorkshire Dales
Silent Night
Silent Night

Grandma’s organ donation

On the mysterious arrival, and equally mysterious disappearance, of a Wurlitzer organ.

Published 10-Aug-2017
Filed under: Articles, Writing Tags: reminiscences
Orion
A small section of the Milky Way galaxy (Orion's Belt, centre).

Orion’s belt-buckle

In celebration of my adopted star.

Published 20-Jun-2017
Filed under: Articles, Featured Writing, Writing Tags: astronomy, reminiscences, science
River Dibbin

Keswick Woods

In which I return to a favourite childhood haunt after a gap of 40 years.

Published 09-Jun-2016
Filed under: Articles, Writing Tags: pilgrimages, reminiscences, trees, Wirral
Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon
(1561–1626)

Bacon and X

Not wishing to boast, but Richard Carter didn't get C-minuses—and he certainly didn't get SEE MEs.

Published 09-Oct-2015
Filed under: Articles, Writing Tags: history, history of science, on writing, reminiscences, science
Moleskine notebooks

Life’s too short for pristine notebooks

How I eventually overcame my reluctance to write in my precious notebooks.

Published 21-Jul-2015
Filed under: Articles, Writing Tags: entropy, reminiscences
Thierleben frontispiece
Frontispiece from a reprint volume of the second edition of Brehms Thierleben (Image: Wikipedia)

The seahorse and the pelican

How a passage from W.G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn might give a clue to some family history.

Published 17-Jul-2015
Filed under: Articles, Writing Tags: reminiscences, Robert Graves, W.G. Sebald

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