A few brief notes about tea, conversations, books and sometimes cats
It’s that time of year again: the university and school year has ended, Parliament has risen, and offices are half empty. Paris, we are told, is like a ghost town, as just about everything closes for the month whilst Monsieur and Madame bundle their enfants and chien into the voiture and head off to somewhere […] …
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I had such a decadent day, friends. It has been one of the most soothing and reinvigorating afternoons ever. There’s nothing quite like taking an afternoon off and trying something new… Especially if that something new happens to be a spa. My friend and I decided to sync up our diaries and treat ourselves to… Trying …
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The Belgrade Theatre, Coventry – the UK City of Culture for 2021 – today announces that its doors will fully reopen to the public on 17 May – the first day that the government’s roadmap allows – with socially distanced audiences able to enjoy Joe Pasquale and Sarah Earnshaw in John Godber’s April in Paris, […] …
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Further to our report in February the new visitor information centre at Coventry Railway station is now open and ready to welcome visitors to the City of Culture. A striking new visitor information centre has been opened outside Coventry Railway Station to help The futuristic pod on Station Square will provide help with information about […] …
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Tonight is the New Moon of August. Its name is with the Lynx moon or the Grain moon. The grain moon is obvious. With harvest underway the workers will work late under the light of the moon. Lynx is a little less obvious and could relate to Anglo-Saxons seeing the kits of the Lynx out …
Tonight the moon Thunder moon is in her last quarter and is moving towards the new moon of August. The end of anything is sad and July is an exciting and dynamic month. Somehow the year is growing older and despite being hot and lazy my thoughts are moving to the coming winter and the …
Tonight the moon will be full and glorious. It will disturb sleep, aid wreckers and smugglers and gaze down on a world turned to silver by her light. If we are lucky the sky will be wrent by lightning and our morning walks refreshed by a rainstorm the night before. If we are very lucky …
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Tonights Moon is the First Quarter of the Thunder Moon. Look out for those Thunderstorms. It is also known as the Buck Moon so look out for stag antlers. Enjoy
Julys moon is called either the Buck moon because this is the season when male deer lose their antlers. Later on this month I will be looking out for antlers on my walks. It is also called the Thunder moon for the summer storms we can expect over the coming month. As I write this …
The Coventry Society are partners in the Sherbourne Valley Project – bringing back the source of our city – for people, for wildlife, for the future. Led by the Warwickshire Wildlife Trust, the project is working with partner organisations and local communities to re-write the future of Coventry’s River Sherbourne by establishing an urban living […] …
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Jack Russell