French Fairground Carousel Decoration

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carousel, fairground rides, French community, La Rochelle, Patrimonie

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart

May have been seen in La Rochelle…

Virginia Woolf Series

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Bloomsbury set, literary figures, Virginia Woolf, women's literature

Own drawing, then variegated. Candia Dixon-Stuart

He Knoweth The Way That I Take

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affirmation, Book of Job, confidence, Divine assistance, expectation, faith, Job 23:10, Old Testament, trials

and when He hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart

Badbury Clump, Oxfordshire

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Badbury Clump, bluebells, Cotswolds, Hill fort, native bluebells, Oxfordshire

Bluebells galore. Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart

Ultimate Neighbour Feud

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Avaris, hippos, Hyksos, neighbour dispute, revanchism, Seqenenre, Thebes

Photo by Diego Delso

Extreme revanchism row with neighbours:

no statutory nuisance laws back then;

no one issued an abatement notice.

He was ‘the Brave’ – at war with the Hyksos.

It’s amazing what lack of sleep can do.

They just snapped over his noisy hippos.

A desire to cull turned to lust to kill.

We’ve all been maddened by a noisy pool.

The disturbance carried on the night air,

travelling from Thebes, up to Avaris.

Then his younger son captured their city,

almost twenty years into his own reign.

A little bit of poolside decorum

may have prevented an execution.

Users of swimming pools should roar quietly,

to avoid the fate of Seqenenre.

Inglesham Church, Oxfordshire

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Cotswolds, Inglesham church, lead thieves, Oxfordshire, St John the Baptist church, The Society for the Preservation of Ancient Monuments, William Morris

The unspoilt church William Morris was inspired by when he founded the Society for the Preservation of Ancient Monuments. A gem, sadly attacked by heartless lead thieves a couple of years ago.

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart. All Rights Reserved.

Pelargonium Profusion

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cup of tea, pelargoniums, silver teapot, still life

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart. Cuppa, anyone?

Pelargoniums

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acrylics, Buscot Park, Fauve, Oxfordshire, pelargoniums, still life

…from the Buscot Park estate. Acrylic painting and photo by Candia

Dixon-Stuart.

Black and White Weekend

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b&w photography, Cotswolds, Gloucestershire, Horcott Lakes, swan, willows

Bach and the Bumble Bee

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Bach, Baroque, clerestory, Sarabande, Scordatura

Male Bumble Bee Photo by Sffubs (Wikimedia Commons)

Scordatura is

an alternative tuning.

In the Sarabande,

Bach’s audience is showered

with Baroque pollen

and hears cello strings vibrate

in harmony with

the frequency of a bee.

The musician’s taut thighs grip;

ground the instrument.

Way up in the clerestory,

there’s a resonance

which might have provoked a hum

from the composer himself.