The Dogskin Buoy. A post on The Dabbler.
From The Dabbler Facebook page , a post on this rather startling (to contemporary ears) role of man’s best friend: THE DOGSKIN BUOY Recently I read Dónal MacPolin’s “The Drontheim, Forgotten Sailing…
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St Berrihert’s Kyle and Well
A little while ago I reblogged a post from Pilgrimage in Medieval Ireland on St Berrihert’s Kyle . Others have written about this site and generally describe it as in various ways magical. My…
Anthony Burgess on decimalisation.
This quote made me wonder about the cognitive impact of decimalisation. There seems to be a consensus that cognitive challenging activities help to reduce and/or delay dementia, and I wonder,…
From “The Poetry of Thought”, George Steiner
We do speak about music. The verbal analysis of a musical score can, to a certain extent, elucidate its formal structure, its technical components and instrumentation. But where it is…
Côte de Granit Rose and Magheragallon
The Pink Granite Coast of Brittany, along Ploumanac’h is an enchanting, strange landscape. My then two year old leapt to his heart content up and down boulders, perhaps to a degree…
David Szalay’s “The Innocent” and Andrei Makhine’s “Brief Loves That Live Forever”
While Makine is Russian-born (writing in French) and Szalay is Canadian-born, these two works have much in common. Short, but genuinely epic in scope, showing how individual lives were shaped by…
LINES COMPOSED A FEW MILES ABOVE TINTERN ABBEY, ON REVISITING THE BANKS OF THE WYE DURING A TOUR. JULY 13, 1798
Five years have past; five summers, with the length Of five long winters! and again I hear These waters, rolling from their mountain-springs With a soft inland murmur.–Once again Do…
10% Of Our Potential and The Search for Something More
I have been working through the previously discussed The Search for Something More by Peter Hannan and the various exercises therein (this image which rather I posted rather cryptically is part of another…
Séamus Sweeney 