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Talmont sur Gironde

09 Tuesday Jul 2019

Posted by Candia in Architecture, art, History, Nostalgia, Personal, Photography, Religion, Travel

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Charente Maritime, France, Gironde, pilgrims, St Hilaire, Talmont

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copper talmont
red talmont

                        St Hilaire.  Photos by Candia Dixon-Stuart

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Dreaming of a French Holiday

07 Monday Jan 2019

Posted by Candia in art, Nostalgia, Personal, Photography, Summer, Travel

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Charente, France, French holiday, yearning

This gallery contains 5 photos.

Photos and images by Candia Dixon-Stuart

Winter Chrysanthemums

20 Thursday Dec 2018

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

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Charente, chrysanthemums, florist, France

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Charentaise florist.   Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart

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Bourg -Charente

18 Tuesday Dec 2018

Posted by Candia in art, Nature, Personal

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acrylics, Bourg- Charente, France, Prisma

This gallery contains 3 photos.

Acrylic painting from a photograph by Candia Dixon-Stuart.  Prisma variations.  Giclee prints available

Winter in Marennes (Charente-Maritime)

17 Monday Dec 2018

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

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Charente Maritime, France, Marennes, oyster, Prisma

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charente maritime 1
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Here the world is your oyster!

Images by Candia Dixon-Stuart

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Autumn, Bourg-Charente

21 Wednesday Nov 2018

Posted by Candia in art, Nature, Nostalgia, Personal

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acrylics, Autumn, Bourg- Charente, Charente, France

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Acrylic painting by Candia Dixon-Stuart

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Yearning….

28 Tuesday Aug 2018

Posted by Candia in Horticulture, Nostalgia, Personal, Photography, Summer, Travel

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France, Francophile, yearning

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…to be in France again.

Photo by Candia Dixon- Stuart

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Charentaise Shopping

21 Saturday Jul 2018

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Charente, epicerie, France, French produce

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7 years since I passed by this little gem.  Wish I had gone inside!

 

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart

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Posted by Candia | Filed under Community, Nostalgia, Photography, Travel

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Mists of Time

06 Friday Sep 2013

Posted by Candia in Poetry, Romance, Suttonford, Writing

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Brockenspectre, chromatography, France, hydrangeas, Mist, Port Racine, Proust

You didn’t tell me about your French trip, Brassie.

No.  I’ve just been so frantic sewing all the name tapes into the twins’

clothes.  After the start of term I always feel like another holiday.  In

fact, whenever we are en vacances as a family I realise that I can’t

recreate the dream of those first magical trips across the Channel.

Yes, I responded with feeling.  Do you remember the romantic holidays

with your first boyfriend?  Everything was innocent in those days. There

was a sweetness that kids today will never experience, because of the

restraint, which makes the relationships all the more poignant in the

recherche du temps perdu, to make a Proustian reference.

Oh Candia, you always take a cerebral approach to life.

Not at all, I replied, taking a folded up piece of paper from my designer

vintage handbag- a trophy from Help The Ancient charity shop- before their

prices took a Himalayan hike. Read this.  I found it in my desk drawer

yesterday.

Port-Racine.jpg

MISTS OF TIME

It was the smallest port in France.  Sea mist

stole in, shrouding an ashen harbour, name

forgotten now.  I recollect we kissed,

lay curled in gloom, till dank fog damped our flame

of desire.  All around loomed hydrangeas:

the palest lilac I had ever seen.

And though Time’s chromatography changes

the memory of that dimmed scene,

their hue persists; that tone tinctures my mind.

Sere shadows, like Brockenspectres assume

monumental presence; therefore I find

they remain, though all else has lost its bloom.

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Gallic Gall

27 Monday Aug 2012

Posted by Candia in Humour, Olympic Games, Social Comment, Sport

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France, Olympics, Tom Daley

Monday

It rained all day.  The French are madly jealous of our success and are accusing us of having magic potions or supernatural wheels.  They whine that the judges were favourable to Tom Daley in giving him a second go when he was distracted by overexcited flash photographers. Their Hassan Hirt had been sent home over his hormone levels.  Just get over it.

© Candia Dixon Stuart and Candiacomesclean.wordpress.com, 2012

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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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