Curious-Authentic Ink

Stinging Sixties

Post author:Eryl
Post published:15/04/2021
Post category:Ageing Writer's Life
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Thanks to my parents not being able to keep their hands off each other for, preferably, another twenty years, a week ago I became sixty. I've known it was going…

Early Spring Walk

Lockdown, One Year On.

Post author:Eryl
Post published:26/03/2021
Post category:Lockdown Writer's Life
Post comments:4 Comments

Tuesday was the anniversary of lockdown, here, and I meant to write this post then. But I had my first jag on Monday and looking at the computer screen gave…

Bloody Marvellous!

Post author:Eryl
Post published:07/03/2021
Post category:Lockdown
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https://youtu.be/sJmc78h3EFsSunday Music* I've been a fan of Erik Satie ever since I read that he always wore one of (I think it was) fourteen (but feel free to put me…

Apple Lane

The Dig

Post author:Eryl
Post published:05/03/2021
Post category:Allotment Writer's Life
Post comments:3 Comments

Me, digging – pulling silly faces for the camera is easier than trying to look not-hideous these days. Saturday 27 February 2021The rain has abated and, although you wouldn't call…

Embracing the Strange

Post author:Eryl
Post published:20/02/2021
Post category:Lockdown Writer's Life
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It struck me, as I lambasted myself for having watched three You Tubes in a row on how to get the most out of Big Sur, that instead of fighting…

In the Liminal

Post author:Eryl
Post published:14/02/2021
Post category:Weekend Post Writer's Life
Post comments:6 Comments

Lost in the In-Between I seem to have fallen between the cracks again. The cracks in democracy – I knew the Republicans wouldn't have the guts, but all the same,…

Cook Your Own Stories

Post author:Eryl
Post published:31/01/2021
Post category:How Fiction Works Literature Ambassador Writer Opps Writing
Post comments:6 Comments

Literary Diet, the final dayTomorrow it won't be January any more, which feels rather abrupt. But there are still a few hours left of the month in which The Guardian…

Literary Cleanse: days 23 to 30.

Post author:Eryl
Post published:28/01/2021
Post category:Literature Ambassador Reading Writer's Life
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I'm so behind with posting about The Guardian's Literary Diet that I'm reduced to just giving highlights. Day 23 was Roger Robinson (right) reading from his TS Eliot Prize winning…

Snacking on Literature: Days 20, 21 & 22

Post author:Eryl
Post published:26/01/2021
Post category:Literature Ambassador Reading Writer's Life
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Day 20: Amanda Gorman Reads 'The Hill We ClimbThe Guardian suggests watching Under the Volcano for day 20 of its Literary Diet, but who had time to watch a film…

A Diet of Literature: 17, 18, & 19

Post author:Eryl
Post published:22/01/2021
Post category:Literature Ambassador Reading Writer's Life
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https://youtu.be/JNeN7Sf-Jd4Day 17: Longplayer dialoguesThe Guardian's Literary Diet continues with video chats between interesting thinkers. I sat and listened to this one while embroidering an ensō and, while most of what…