Books: Children’s, Classics, Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre, Middle English, Old English, Public speaking and rhetoric, Romantics, Story, Travel, Victorian
Chesham, South East
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I have been reading Daemon Voices by @PhilipPullman. I fear he might dislike the following description but if there were to be a manual on storytelling, which had fluttered from another universe into this one, I am now reading it. – at West Midlands, England
Why does the word “Kindly” at the beginning of a sentence in an email, particularly when in red and especially when it does not relate to anything which could remotely be described as a pre-existing obligation, sound anything like the meaning of the word?
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In 1929, my Granny played the part of Winnie-The-Pooh in a pageant with Christopher Robin himself. We scattered her ashes in that enchanted place on the top of the Forest where a little boy and his Bear will always be playing. screenarchive.brighton.ac.uk… #WinnieThePoohDay @GylesB1
I have been having a healthy debate with someone close to me about whether it is necessary to place cockle shells in a garden TIDILY by reference to Mary in the nursery rhyme who was quite contrary. The issue is whether the cockle shells were to beautify or to promote growth.
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A reminder of a pretty etymology to brighten the day. The ‘daisy’ takes its name from the Old English ‘dæges ēage’, ‘day’s eye’, because it opens its petals at dawn, and closes them again at dusk.
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This is going to be excellent. Do get a ticket while there are still some left!
The creative team for Amahl in action: David Ireson (conductor), Tim Armstrong-Taylor (director) & Peter Jones (piano).
Visit ticketsource.co.uk/saco for tickets
I am reading “Close to Death” by the wonderful @AnthonyHorowitz and regretting that one of the suspects is not a retired sea captain. Why? The murder weapon.
Disgruntled 11-year-old: “I don’t look like a volcano.” She decided that her word was pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. #WorldBookDay
Ruth Manning-Sanders: ‘She was certain that it was every child’s birthright to visit a world of enchantment and occasional terrors’ countrylife.co.uk/nature/rut…
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I found myself thinking of “Dark Materials” the moment I started reading this article, @PhilipPullman bbc.co.uk/news/science-envir…
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We are delighted to support Southgate Youth Opera in La Bohème, Puccini's tale of young love in 1830s Paris, with an exciting cast including the award-winning @jmbeddoe, and direction by English Touring Opera’s Joseph Winters. In aid of @GOSHCharity. ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/…
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"Welcome, Prince," said Aslan. "Do you feel yourself sufficient to take up the Kingship of Narnia?"
"I—I don't think I do, Sir," said Caspian. "I'm only a kid."
"Good," said Aslan. "If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been a proof that you were not.” #Coronation