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The Secret Garden

09 Monday Dec 2019

Posted by Candia in art, gardens, Horticulture, Nature, Nostalgia, Personal, Photography

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garden shed, The Secret Garden, topiary

south lawn by night

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart

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Dawn

08 Sunday Dec 2019

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Cotswolds, dawn, December, moon

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Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart

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Charentaise Stubble

07 Saturday Dec 2019

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Charente, Juillac-leCoq, stubble

juillac harvest 4
juillac harvest 3
juillac harvest 2
juillac harvest 1

Photos by Candia Dixon-Stuart

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Golden Hour

06 Friday Dec 2019

Posted by Candia in art, Environment, gardens, Nature, Personal, Photography, Summer 2012

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Golden Hour, leaf fall, winter

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Winter Afternoon

05 Thursday Dec 2019

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Cotswolds, Oxfordshire, winter, Vale of White Horse

copper trees

Oxfordshire

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Watson’s Bay, Sydney

03 Tuesday Dec 2019

Posted by Candia in Architecture, Personal, Photography, Summer, Travel

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Australia, bushfire smoke, NSW, Sydney, Watson's Bay

watson's bay oz

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About 3 years ago, when there was no bushfire smoke.

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Uffington Church, Cotswolds

01 Sunday Dec 2019

Posted by Candia in Architecture, art, Environment, History, Nostalgia, Personal, Photography

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Cotswolds, Mist, octagonal tower, Oxfordshire, Uffington Church

uffington church dusk
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Its octagonal tower in the mist yesterday

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Dolls’ House, Window Display

29 Friday Nov 2019

Posted by Candia in Architecture, art, Nostalgia, Personal, Photography

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dolls' house, Oxford, window dispaly

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Dolls’ House Window Display, Oxford. Photos by Candia Dixon-Stuart

Red House

28 Thursday Nov 2019

Posted by Candia in Architecture, art, gardens, Personal, Photography

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courtyard garden, hornbeam topiary, red house

red house
red house 2

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Time Marches On

26 Tuesday Nov 2019

Posted by Candia in History, Literature, Nature, Personal, Poetry, Psychology, Social Comment

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Graves, Japanese poetry, memento mori

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Photo of kanji by Jmettlen on Wikimedia Commons

 

Even our friends’ graves

will one day be ploughed over.

Grief diminishes

through time and we smile once more.

Calligraphy on

headstones will be eroded.

The deceased’s peers die;

his name is then forgotten.

The pines which are deemed to live

for a thousand years

are, in actual fact, chopped down –

disrespectfully,

or just pragmatically,

according to how life’s viewed.

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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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