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'A gaping silken dragon,/Puffed by the wind, suffices us for God./We, not the City, are the Empire's soul:/A rotten tree lives only in its rind.'

Thursday 16 August 2012

The stuff...

... of life.

Or, two days in the life of one Englishman:


Toy soldiers. Romano-British, on the stocks, nearly ready.


Four (one absent) generations, from 1926 to date.


Alpines - gentians.


Alpines - soldenella.


The plot - runner beans, carrots, leeks, cabbages, courgettes, potatoes in English soil.


English ale - from Suffolk.


English pub - in Mercia.


St. Mary's - Christendom.


The view on stepping out of the pub.


Interesting reading.

It just is. Homeland.

5 comments:

  1. And leaves the World to darkness and to me.

    Wonderful post Stephen.

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    1. Thanks, old chap! The last few comments I've left on 'Joy & Forgetfulness' have been eaten by Blogger - but I'm still trying! Where is 'and leaves the World to darkness and to me' from?

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    2. My apologies - I'll see if there's something I can fix my end.

      Greys Elegy - one of the first if not the first stanza. It's one I tend to remember single lines from rather than anything more substantial.

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  2. Splendid post sir.Figures coming on and alpines excellent.

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  3. Thanks, Alan. I'm still at the worrying stage with the alpines - peering myopically at them for any sign of distress.

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