Arlington Mill

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Arlington Mill, Bibury, Cotswolds, nostalgic places, Oxfordshire, sepia photograph

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart

The Old and the New (Two Aspects)

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antithesis, Bourton-on-the Water, Cotswolds, dual aspect, hostelry, inn, plus ca change, public house

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart

Bier at Great Tew Church

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bier, church, community services, Cotswolds, death, funeral carriage, Great Tew church, rites of passage

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart

David Olusoga

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acrylic painting, David Olusoga, historian, media celebrity, portrait, Professor, social justice

An acrylic painting by Candia Dixon-Stuart

More Yarnton Glass (Oxfordshire)

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Apocryphal scenes, Biblical scenes, church windows, medieval glass, Oxfordshire churches, Yarnton

Photos by Candia Dixon-Stuart

Farnborough Hall, Warwickshire 1

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Cedar, Farnborough Hall, follies, gatehouse, National Trust, Warwickshire

Thames Time Capsule

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barge, Britain's nostalgic past, Cotswolds, Lechlade-on-Thames, sepia photography, Thames, time capsule

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart. All Rights Reserved.

A Walk in the Windrush Valley

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Cotswolds, Gloucestershire, hay bales, Sherborne, Windrush valley

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart

Heard the wind rustling or rushing through the leaves. Now I know why the valley has that name.

Homesick on The Ridgeway

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dustceawing, eawl-leet, hill-fort, holloways, Hran-rad, inosculation, invasion, Norsemen, petrichor, The Ridgeway

Who were these invaders?

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart

 

 

Haunting the holloways, harrowed by hooves;

feeling our footfall fragment the flint.

Scanning the canopy’s inosculation,

we glybe through glossamer and squint in the glisk.

Dustsceawung is unavoidable:

dreams flit into smeause, like mice through a crack;

dilemmas dissolve through smoot holes.

Preoccupation is piffling to us.

We head for a hill-fort; spy on a settlement,

among the shadowtracks and shivelights

at the selvedge fray of a sown field.

After a shower, a pungent petrichor

permeates nostrils and a landskein

looms over the horizon, like smoke from their huts.

Soon it will be wolf-light; eawl-leet softens

and Heimweh’s heft hirples our hearts,

so we summon the sun wane

on the suthering tide, where we tied our ships.

May a spanging breeze freeze the salt in our beards!

Helmsmen, we long for the Hran-rad and home.

Hannah More (1745-1833)

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anti-slavery, bas bleu, Belmont, Blagdon, Clapham set, Cowslip Green, Fishponds, Hannah More, Mendip Hills, nervous breakdown, philanthropist, religious tracts, Tyntesfield, Walpole

Hannah More by Pickersgill

A quennet for a woman who made a fortune with her pen:

 

fourth daughter   Gloucestershire born   Mendip Hills

poetic landscape

religious tracts   pastoral plays   Sunday education

nervous collapse

‘strange affair’    Bleeding Rock   jilted female

small annuity

bas bleu

Blagdon cottage

Clapham Sect

petticoat bishop

Cowslip Green

anti-slavery

bold philanthropist

strange plays   female education    pastoral landscape

religious rock.