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Great Coxwell, Oxfordshire

11 Thursday Feb 2021

Posted by Candia in Architecture, Bible, History, Nostalgia, Photography, Poetry, Religion, Social Comment, Writing

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Cistercian, Cotswolds, Great Coxwell, Joseph, monastic wealth, National Trust, Oxfordshire, Pre-Raphaelites, tithe barn, Vale of the White Horse, William Morris

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart. Poem published in October 2017 on this site.

Great Coxwell’s Barn

Off Hollow Way stands this vast, vacant barn:

huge receptacle for Cistercian tithes,

garnered from tenant farmers – a dry store,

where the granger checked accounts; did not trust

his hired servants.  Here Cotswold riches

were protected from thieves and from decay.

Christ had warned disciples about decay

and storing up of surplus in a barn.

Christians were always meant to share riches

and not to extract profit from fat tithes.

The parable’s ‘fool’ was he whose whole trust

was in possessions.  He had wrath in store.

Henry VIII would plunder a marked store

and most abbeys were subject to decay.

Monastic wealth was held in deep distrust.

Though Morris praised this cathedral-like barn,

Pre-Raphaelites would not restore tithes;

they venerated aesthetic riches.

We coveted colonial riches

and viewed the whole world as potential store,

compelling other countries to pay tithes;

forgetting moth and rust would cause decay.

What were the treasures we stored in our barn?

We’ll reap what we sowed: we abused faith, trust.

Joseph, in whom Pharoah had put his trust,

managed underground silos of riches

and, when his brothers came – not to a barn-

but to the pits where corn was kept in store,

did they recall they’d left him to decay

in such a space?  (He who asked no tithes.)

This massive hulk, once packed with peasant tithes,

now supported by The National Trust,

mouldered with neglect; died of decay,

until ‘heritage’ was seen as riches.

What are the values we would like to store?

Should we maintain the past?  Convert the barn?

Some build barns with their family riches,

but tithes benefited community,

as long as mutual trust did not decay.

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Ashdown Park

03 Thursday Sep 2020

Posted by Candia in Architecture, art, Autumn, Environment, gardens, History, Nature, Nostalgia, Photography

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Ashdown Park, copse, Craven, cupola, hazel, lantern tower, National Trust, Oxfordshire, Weathercock Hill, Winter Queen

autumnal scenes by Candia Dixon-Stuart

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Japanese Garden, Cowra NSW

19 Wednesday Feb 2020

Posted by Candia in Environment, gardens, Horticulture, Personal, Photography, Sculpture, Travel

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Cowra, Japanese Garden, National Trust, NSW

cowra entrance

Entrance by Candia Dixon-Stuart

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Lichen

28 Saturday Dec 2019

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

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car park photography, lichen, National Trust, Oxfordshire, White Horse Hill

lichen trees 1

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart

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Sleeping Beauty

10 Sunday Nov 2019

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

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Buscot Weir, cottage, National Trust, Oxfordshire, sleeping beauty

buscot dusk 1 (2)

Photo by Candia Dixon-Stuart.  All Rights Reserved.

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Gingerbread Cottages

08 Sunday Sep 2019

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Charlecote Park, gingerbread house, Midlands, National Trust, Warwickshire

red cottage
pink cottage 2
pink cottage
cottage au naturel

Photos by Candia Dixon-Stuart.  All Rights Reserved.

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Chelsea Lovers

02 Saturday Mar 2019

Posted by Candia in Arts, History, Music, Nostalgia, Personal, Photography, Relationships, Romance, Sculpture

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ceramic sculpture, Chelsea porcelain, National Trust, pastoral, Upton House

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from the collection at Upton House, NT

Photo by Candia

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Shaw’s Corner, Hertfordshire

07 Saturday Jul 2018

Posted by Candia in Celebrities, History, Horticulture, Literature, Nature, Photography, Summer, Theatre

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Ayot St Lawrence, George Bernard Shaw, Hertfordshire, National Trust, Shaw's Corner

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Garden of George Bernard Shaw.  Now NT

Today- photos copyright candiacomesclean.wordpress.com

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Cotehele 2, Cornwall

10 Sunday Jun 2018

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

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Cornwall, Cotehele, National Trust, viaduct

This gallery contains 6 photos.

Cotehele National Trust

09 Saturday Jun 2018

Posted by Candia in Architecture, History, Horticulture, Nature, Nostalgia, Photography, Summer, Travel

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Cornwall, Cotehele, National Trust

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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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