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Happy Hallowe’en from Pompeii

31 Thursday Oct 2019

Posted by Candia in art, Autumn, History, mythology, Photography, Supernatural

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Ashmolean, hallowe'en, mosaic, Pompeii, skeleton

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@ The Ashmolean, Oxford

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart

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Peaseblossom’s Ghost

24 Saturday Aug 2019

Posted by Candia in art, Arts, mythology, Nostalgia, Personal, Photography, Supernatural, Theatre

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fairy, Midsummer Night's Dream, National Theatre, Peaseblossom, Shakespeare, Stratford-on-Avon

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Stratford-on-Avon, National Theatre.  Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart

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Four Muses of Chavenage

07 Sunday Jul 2019

Posted by Candia in art, Film, Literature, mythology, Photography, television

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Chavenage, Cotswolds, Gloucestershire, Muses, Poldark

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Photos by Candia Dixon-Stuart of the fireplace in Chavenage,

Gloucestershire. (Don’t even want to mention the Poldark

connection!)

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Male Torsos

20 Thursday Jun 2019

Posted by Candia in art, History, mythology, Personal, Photography, Sculpture, Supernatural

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acrylics, Classical sculpture, male torso

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Acrylics- painted 2 hours ago by Candia Dixon-Stuart

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Buscot Wistaria

10 Monday Jun 2019

Posted by Candia in gardens, Horticulture, mythology, Nostalgia, Photography, Summer

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Buscot Park, Cotswolds, fountain, Oxfordshire, wistaria

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Photos by Candia Dixon-Stuart

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Aslan

31 Friday May 2019

Posted by Candia in Animals, Architecture, Arts, gardens, Literature, mythology, Nostalgia, Personal, Photography, Religion, Sculpture

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Aslan, C S Lewis, Lion Witch Wardrobe, Narnia

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Photos by Candia Dixon-Stuart

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Iris – Goddess of the Rainbow

13 Monday May 2019

Posted by Candia in art, Horticulture, mythology, Nature, Personal, Photography

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Buscot Park, Goddess of the Rainbow, iris

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Photo and images copyright by Candia Dixon-Stuart

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Ridgeway

28 Thursday Mar 2019

Posted by Candia in Environment, History, mythology, Nature, Nostalgia, Personal, Photography

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chalk, Faringdon, Oxfordshire, Ridgeway, tracks, Wayland's Smiithy

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… in the footsteps of those who have passed this way before.

Destination: Wayland’s Smithy, near Faringdon, Oxfordshire.

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Approaching The Ides of March

11 Monday Mar 2019

Posted by Candia in Environment, mythology, Nature, Photography

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early Spring, Ides of March, pollarded trees, skyscape

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Photos by Candia Dixon-Stuart

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Koons My Way

10 Sunday Feb 2019

Posted by Candia in art, Humour, mythology, Personal, Photography, Satire, Sculpture

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Ashmolean, Jeff Koons, kitsch

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thought it needed spicing up a little

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My name is Candia. Its initial consonant alliterates with “cow” and there are connotations with the adjective “candid.” I started writing this blog in the summer of 2012 and focused on satire at the start.

Interspersed was ironic news comment, reviews and poetry.

Over the years I have won some international poetry competitions and have published in reputable small presses, as well as reviewing and reading alongside well- established poets. I wrote under my own name then, but Candia has taken me over as an online persona. Having brought out a serious anthology last year called 'Its Own Place' which features poetry of an epiphanal nature, I was able to take part in an Arts and Spirituality series of lectures in Winchester in 2016.

Lately I have been experimenting with boussekusekeika, sestinas, rhyme royale, villanelles and other forms. I am exploring Japanese themes at the moment, my interest having been re-ignited by the recent re-evaluations of Hokusai.

Thank you to all my committed followers whose loyalty has encouraged me to keep writing. It has been exciting to meet some of you in the flesh- in venues as far flung as Melbourne and Sydney!

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