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Category Archives: Stuart France and Sue Vincent
Sun-Day…
* On one side a giant kisses the sky, On the other a fore-finger, its hand buried in clay. Yet should you ask, ‘why?’ There is no one left to say… * Can a sliver of blue heaven Between hard … Continue reading
Posted in Ancient sites, Poetry, Stuart France and Sue Vincent
Tagged avebury, giants, landscape, standing stone, stone circle, talking head
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Little Acorns…
* … A paper flyer blowing in the wind clings to my ankle. I stoop and peel it from my trouser leg, unfurl it and read… ‘…LITTLE ACORNS…’ A Puppet-Play Figured in Three Acts FEATURING THE REDOUBTABLE MR PUNCH THE … Continue reading
Posted in albion, Art, Books, Don and Wen, psychology, Stuart France, Stuart France and Sue Vincent
Tagged consciousness, Folk Tale, magic, story, the mysteries
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Distorted reality
I stood outside my son’s bedroom, bundled up against the cold that was dropping a few meagre snowflakes on the morning. Camera in hand, I was snapping away happily when I caught a glimpse of my reflection in the window. … Continue reading
Posted in imagination, mystery, nature, Photography, Stuart France and Sue Vincent
Tagged assumptions, dimensions, experience, fifth dimension, perception, reality, reflections, senses
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Glimpsing…
* From the corner of my eye… Through a keyhole… half seen unheard Beneath the door… Behind a crack in the curtains A shiver of tree leaf gurgling-silver over brook-stone. Continue reading at France & Vincent
Posted in Photography, Poetry, Stuart France and Sue Vincent
Tagged esoteric, magic, meaning, mystery, psychology, story, symbolism
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‘Cadged’?…
* Did Turpin’s Troupe Drop him Deep in the Soup? * That Devil’s cast of scallywags and wild haired, grinning hags… who still adorn the plastered walls in Glory’s glossy prima-face. There now to tease and please the local populace. … Continue reading
Posted in Photography, Poetry, Stuart France and Sue Vincent
Tagged England, history, mercia, psychology, story
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Flight…
* As the narrow-boat’s snout tickled the under-bridge, Black-Jack cut the engine and peered through the white gloom… A landing-official waved his stray arm in greeting, the lights beyond him intimated warmth and festivity. An Owl screeched! Black-Jack turned to … Continue reading
Posted in Photography, Poetry, Stuart France and Sue Vincent
Tagged landscape, mystery, psychology, story, symbolism
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Alternative archaeology
‘Shadowing’ is the apparent… and disputed… reproduction in the stone of many ancient monuments of prominent features in the landscape. A monolith in a stone circle that aligns with and captures the shape of a nearby peak… the capstone of … Continue reading
Solstice of the Moon: Fragments of History
Outside the porch of the kirk at Fortingall stands an ancient font. Local legend states that Coeddi himself may have used it to baptise some of the first Christians in the area when the monks of Iona founded a sister … Continue reading
Solstice of the Moon: Stories Unknown
We had driven to Fortingall to see the venerable yew, but it just happens to be in the grounds of a church, so it was inevitable that we would take a look around. We do seem to spend a lot … Continue reading
Solstice of the Moon: Older than Time…
Imagine standing in the presence of a living being at whose feet Pontius Pilate played as a child. Local legend says that Pilate was born at Fortingall when his father visited the Roman Legions in the north. Imagine standing in … Continue reading