‘On page 340 there is a smudged fingerprint’
I read with interest the Scotland on Sunday review of Ali Smith’s Summer. It will be my next read, along with Richard Holloway’s new book.
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an ordinary Degree
I gained two ordinary degrees before becoming a specialist. Sian, my wife, has been a General Practitioner in all the time that we have been together. I am now retired … Continue reading an ordinary Degree
incredible shapes
A passage from The Quarry Wood by Nan Shepherd
Omphalos films
My short films can be found here [the above quote “Shapes, sounds, the energies and acuteness of life,” is from The Quarry Wood by Nan Shepherd]
There was no time
This is from The Quarry Wood by Nan Shepherd
She understood
[the full context of this quote can be found in The Quarry Wood]
I like this place
The words are from The Quarry Wood by Nan Shepherd
annotation by Peter
This was how I annotated a page in my copy of The Quarry Wood by Nan Shepherd.
Arory-bory-Alice
In Chapter Three of The Quarry Wood by Nan Shepherd you will find a delightful family conversation about the northern lights, the aurora borealis: Footnote: The above painting is of … Continue reading Arory-bory-Alice
‘two small boys lay on their stomachs beside the puddle’
From boyhood I have loved gates. It is fair to say that they fascinate me. The humbler the gate – or gateway – the better!
‘a loving observer’
Aunt Josephine from The Quarry Wood.
Aunt Josephine Leggatt
The first chapter of The Quarry Wood is about Aunt Josephine Leggatt who had a “tender concern for her seedlings”. Martha could read her aunt’s eye.