Tag: Christmas
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Haphazard by Starlight – Poems for Advent
The Adoration of the Magi, by Andrea Mantegnadd – celebrate Christmas by reading TS Eliot’s ‘Journey of the Being a bit of a magpie, I look at what people write about books, then steal authors and titles for my own use. Sometimes I require instant gratification, which is where the Kindle comes into its own. Or, if…
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Spellbound by a Sparkling Story!
Happy New Year people! I’m still here – I haven’t gone anywhere, and I certainly haven’t given up blogging. But I cannot believe I haven’t posted anything since the middle of November, and I haven’t really got much of an explanation. I’ve been trying to get ‘social media’ stuff up and running for Oxfam Lichfield,…
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Honey, Prisoners – and a King’s Speech!
During the war honey was popular, because sugar wasrationed. But Vere doesn’t tell us if her sweet gift was madeby a local beekeeper, or was a mass produced jar. Feel much better this week. Very hot. A jar of honey has been given me. Very pleasant to receive. Able to get one whole pound of…
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Celebrating Christmas
No list of Christmas books and readings could be complete without something from the Bible – after all, Christmas is a celebration of the birth of Christ. So here is the opening passage from St Luke’s Gospel, and to go with it here’s a painting, the Adoration of the Magi, by Gerard van Honthorst. And…
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A Grumpy Old Man with an Unusual Job
I have found myself a new role – as a volunteer in a charity bookshop, which is about as perfect as things can get. I was browsing there a couple of weeks ago and suddenly realised the lady behind the counter was an old friend I hadn’t seen for many years, and the next thing…
The Book Trunk 