Tag: Snow

• Ducks on the Ice

  Well, here we are, talking about the weather again! It’s only a few weeks since normal life was halted by floods. Now everything is disrupted by snow, which may be no great shakes to those of you living in colder climes, but is the main talking point here in the UK, where we never seem…

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  January 19, 2013

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• A Winter Landscape

  The True Deceiver by Tove Jansson is darker than either ‘The Summer Book’ or ‘A Winter Book’ (although ‘The Squirrel’, one of the short stories in the collection, is a little peculiar). But it is every bit as wonderful. With Jansson, little things mean a lot, and her writing is so deceptively simple it’s almost hypnotic,…

  chrisharding53

  October 26, 2012

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• Snow Fall

  The snow has almost gone, but it looked so pretty while it was here that I couldn’t resist posting Robert Bridges’ poem, ‘London Snow’, because I always think it really captures the silent way snow falls in the night, and the wonder of the morning when you wake and everything is transformed. And, since I’m…

  chrisharding53

  February 5, 2012

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