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Fulling Mill, Hampshire

02 Sunday Aug 2020

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

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acrylics, fulling mill, Hampshire, New Alresford, River Arle, thatched cottage

Fulling Mill, New Alresford by Candia Dixon-Stuart

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Hall House (Rear) Hampshire

27 Saturday Jun 2020

Posted by Candia in Architecture, art, gardens, Horticulture, Nature, Nostalgia, Personal, Summer

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Acanthus, acrylics, hall house, Hampshire, herbaceous borders

Acrylics by Candia Dixon-Stuart

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Thatched Cottage, Wherwell

12 Friday Jun 2020

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Hampshire, staddle stones, thatched cottage, Wherwell

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Posted by Candia | Filed under Architecture, History, Nostalgia, Personal, Photography, Summer

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Fulling Mill, New Alresford

15 Friday May 2020

Posted by Candia in Architecture, Environment, History, Nature, Nostalgia, Personal, Photography, Spring

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black and white cottages, ford, fulling mill, Hampshire, New Alresford, Right of Way, thatched cottage

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How many times have I walked in front of this house, or up the lane?

Now have migrated to pastures new.

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart

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Winchester, The Close

15 Sunday Mar 2020

Posted by Candia in Summer 2012

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cathedral Close, Cheyney Court, Hampshire, Pilgrims School, Winchester

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Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart

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Hampshire Hall House

04 Monday Mar 2019

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

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acrylics, Autumn, foliage, hall house, Hampshire

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Photos and painting by Candia Dixon-Stuart

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War On The Line- June, 2014 (New Alresford)

25 Monday Jun 2018

Posted by Candia in Community, Fashion, History, Nostalgia, Photography, Social Comment

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1940s, Hampshire, New Alresford, Re-Enactment, Retro, Second World War, War on the Line, Watercress Line

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Hampshire Poppies

19 Tuesday Jun 2018

Posted by Candia in Environment, Nature, Personal, Photography, Summer

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Hampshire, Monet, poppies

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New Release

04 Saturday Jun 2016

Posted by Candia in Literature, Poetry, Writing

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Celtic Christianity, churches, forgiveness, Hampshire, miracles, monologues, Music, parables, pilgrimage, Sculpture, sestinas

Its Own Place Cover

Dixon-Stuart books have just made this anthology available on Amazon.

Candia thoroughly recommends this insightful read to all her followers.

The mind is its own place, and in itself

Can make a Heaven of Hell,

A Hell of Heaven…

John Milton: Paradise Lost, Bk 1.

 

 

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All Saints, Steep Good Friday

29 Sunday Mar 2015

Posted by Candia in Arts, History, Literature, Poetry, Religion

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All Saints Steep, Downs, Easter garden, Edward Thomas, Hampshire, kneelers, Laurence Whistler, memento mori, Reveille

All Saints, Steep

Another re-blog as it is the same season…

Brassie and I set out one sunny afternoon last week,

to savour the fresh air and to visit Steep Church with its

memorial windows to Edward Thomas, the poet.

Imagine our shock at finding one of the exquisite little panes

shattered by vandals-apparently some time ago.

It made me return to my online file and I managed to find

a poem written about these works of art several Springs

ago.

Let me share it with you:

ALL SAINTS’ CHURCH, STEEP-GOOD FRIDAY

It is steep, but we find it after all

with memorial tablet on the wall,

listing old choirboys – Cranstone, Applebee,

whose treble piping trills continually

in shrill birdsong. Death’s head kneelers proclaim

memento mori. We don’t forget name,

or words from the believer whose etched glass

invites us to see less darkly, to pass

through the pain, through the pane, beyond the moss

of an Easter garden, with central cross,

till our gaze follows glaze to Downs and sky,

clouded momentarily by the sigh

of some Hampshire widow, for whom the coat

on washing line; the unsmoked pipe denote

an absent man and yet a spirit nigh,

the daffodils bugling in Reveille.

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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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