An Inspector Calls is set in 1912 long before its first performance at the end of the Second World War. It is in fact set in a different world, one that seemed so peaceful and secure. The period from around 1901 to 1914 has largely been seen as a English Golden Age and the setting …
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Morning in Cornwall — Jonathan Wrote This
We left home a little after 10am yesterday morning, waving goodbye to our eldest daughter who is looking after the house, and set off towards the south west and my parents house. After stopping at a picnic area to stretch our legs, we finally arrived late in the afternoon. This morning the weather has arrived […] …
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Writing Inspiration… Cornwall — anitadawesauthor.com
This magical photograph is of an actual place in Cornwall, called St. Nectan’s Glen. I know it well because I have been there. I have stood beneath it, getting soaked to the skin, and I have climbed up the rocks and stood looking down at the majesty of the thundering water. The sight and sound of […] …
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An Evening with Alfred Lord Tennyson — Lady Budd
Lady Godiva (1892) by Edmund Leighton (Public Domain) How do we experience poetry? This is the question I have been considering for several years. A poem can be read from a page while sitting on a comfy chair in front of a roaring fire, on a sandy beach, in a library or on public transit. […] …
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Thai-mat/food — Yolanda – “Det här är mitt privata krig”
An Inspector Calls
Of all of JB Priestleys work, and there is a lot of it, the most well known is this play. I myself have been drawn back to it repeatedly since I studied it in school. It deals with an intrusion by a mysterious Inspector to the family life of the Birlings who are having a …
Happy Founders Day
As you all know I am a graduate of the University of Lampeter otherwise known as St. Davids University College. I spent five happy years in West Wales where you are only half an hour from the sea, half an hour from the mountains where buzzards fly and people have lived for time immemorial. Today …
Day of Rememberance
Today marks the end of the First World War. No other even in modern history has had the same impact of this four year conflict and I believe we are still affected to this day. The war started in 1914 and by the end of it men, women, children and even nations and empires were …
Lighting up the Canal — Coventry Society News
A spectacular one Kilometre trail of lights, projection, music and reflection is planned for the Coventry Canal in November. Random String is Ludic Rooms’ biennial festival of arts and technology. This year they are bringing light, sound and projections to a stretch of the Coventry Canal, following a 1km trail that ends in the Canal […] …
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A Bitter reflection on the closing of The Big Comfy Bookshop at Fargo.
Enjoying culture in Coventry is like being poor in hospital before the NHS. You’ve got loads of experts poking at you and have no say except that you must be grateful.
Jack Russell 