SubscribeAt the moment I’m rewriting ‘Surrounded By Water’, my first novel, and it’s going well. I’m about 45,000 words in, which I think is about half way, and I’m loving the process. This new version of the novel has a stripped-down plot and the narrative point of view has changed; and because I already know [...]
The Country and The Dead
Today, I give you two animated poems by Billy Collins. They are both brilliant, and beautiful, and clever, and sad, and stayed with me for a long time after I first saw and heard them. Which is just as it should be, with poetry.
More lovely rain
So, after yesterday’s post, and responses from Twitter, Facebook and comments here, I can add some other reasons to love the rain:
11. The smells you get after rain. Lots of people mentioned this one, and I couldn’t believe that I hadn’t… especially when I walked through the garden yesterday afternoon and was ambushed by that [...]
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