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Kelmscott Re-Visited

25 Tuesday Jun 2019

Posted by Candia in Architecture, Arts, gardens, History, Horticulture, Nostalgia, Personal, Photography, Summer

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Arts & Crafts, Cotswolds, Kelmscott, Oxfordshire, poppies, William Morris

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Photos by Candia Dixon-Stuart  All Rights Reserved

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Kelmscott Riverbank

09 Thursday May 2019

Posted by Candia in art, Environment, History, Nature, Nostalgia, Personal, Summer

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acrylics, Cotswolds, Kelmscott, Pre-Raphaelites, River Thames, Thames path, William Morris

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Acylic painting by Candia Dixon-Stuart

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Kelmscott Riverbank

21 Thursday Feb 2019

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

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Cotswolds, Kelmscott, William Morris

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Photos by Candia 2018

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Kelmscott Riverbank

21 Thursday Feb 2019

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acrylics, Cotswolds, Kelmscott, William Morris

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Posted by Candia | Filed under art, Environment, Nature, Nostalgia, Personal, Photography

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Kelmscott Willows

06 Wednesday Feb 2019

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

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acrylics, Cotswolds, gold leaf, Kelmscott, William Morris, willows

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Acrylics and gold leaf by Candia

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Final Product!

19 Friday Oct 2018

Posted by Candia in Arts, Home, Nature, Nostalgia, Personal, Photography

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home-made, Kelmscott, preserves, quince, William Morris

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From Kelmscott’s tree to quince preserve- made by me!

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Kelmscott (the Interior)

14 Sunday Oct 2018

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Arts&Crafts, Cotswolds, Kelmscott, Pre-Raphaelites, William Morris

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William Morris’ Quinces

11 Thursday Oct 2018

Posted by Candia in History, Horticulture, Nature, Nostalgia, Personal, Photography

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Today I asked a volunteer at Kelmscott if the quince trees were there in

Morris’ day and he said that they were.

Wonder what that fuzzy stuff is?  William Morris’ beard?

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William Morris’ Medlars

10 Wednesday Oct 2018

Posted by Candia in Arts, History, Horticulture, Nature, Nostalgia, Personal, Photography

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Autumn, Isis ceramics, Kelmscott, medlars, quinces, William Morris

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Straight from his garden at Kelmscott and soon to be preserved.

The quinces will be jelly and the medlars look lovely on my Isis

ceramics blue and white charger on a Morris tablecloth.

 

 

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Great Coxwell’s Barn

10 Tuesday Oct 2017

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

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aesthetic, Cistercian, Cotswold, Genesis, Great Coxwell, Henry VIII, Joseph, Malachi 3, Matthew 6, Pharoah, Pre-Raphaelite, sestina, The National Trust, William Morris

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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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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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