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Badbury Clump

20 Saturday Oct 2018

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2010-10-16 Marasmius oreades (Bolton) Fr 112276.jpg

Photo by Lord Mayonnaise, 2012 (Bolton) 

Mushroom Observer.  Wiki

 

Ancient boundaries:

Atrebates, the Belgae,

Catuvellauni.

A whiff of Arthur,

as he defended this land

from the foreigners –

those mercenaries

whom Voltigern had welcomed.

Was Mons Badonicus here?

I stumble across

some pushy Marasnius

oreades, which

rejuvenate with raindrops,

blown in from mainland Europe.

Challenged, they go underground.

They know coasts are never clear,

but invasion is a fact.

They are here for the long term.

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Christ Church, Oxford Today

02 Sunday Sep 2018

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Peter Eugene Ball’s Madonna and Child; statue of Henry Liddell

(father of  Alice, as in ‘Wonderland’)

Photos by Candia Dixon-Stuart

Paralytic Goes Through The Roof

14 Tuesday Aug 2018

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Engraving by Bernhard Rode, c 1775

Photo by James Steakley, 2009.  Wiki Commons

 

My friends let me down

and they vandalised the house.

I went through the roof –

deus ex machina (not).

Still, theatrical.

Talk about vertiginous!

I felt suspended,

like those spies in Jericho

whom Rahab rescued.

Well, I was a stretcher case,

until Joshua –

this one – spoke to me.

I do believe that

He could make the sun stand still.

(My friends will repair the roof.)

Fleury (Benoit-sur-Loire)

16 Monday Jul 2018

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                      5 years ago.  Trip for Feast of the  Ascension.  Also a visit to

                      Sully-sur- Loire Chateau.

                     Took part in the service by reading a passage from John

                     Henry Newman.  Breathtaking.  Wonderful Benedictine

                     hospitality.

Photos by Candia Dixon-Stuart