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Callanish Calling: Way-Stone…

Posted on July 28, 2020 by Sue Vincent

* Given that, by all accounts, the Way-Stone was capable of getting us to the morn, we wasted no time in putting the question… * And were met with a road length peal of laughter, quite light and silvery it … Continue reading →

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Which Doctor?… Stuart France

Posted on July 27, 2020 by Sue Vincent

* “Look, it’s Doctor Who!” “That’s not Doctor Who.” “I thought you liked Doctor Who?” “I do, but that’s not him, it’s just an actor!” * The actor in question was John Pertwee, who played The Doctor between January 1970 … Continue reading →

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Callanish Calling: Gnomes…

Posted on July 27, 2020 by Sue Vincent

* …And he is not just horrible to us, even the gnomes, that used to inhabit the Heart of the Isle, fled to the coast to hurl themselves into the sea. * Some of the gnomes though thought better of … Continue reading →

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Callanish Calling: Fingers of Stone…

Posted on July 25, 2020 by Sue Vincent

* Not only is the Old Man of Storr hurling more water at us than we can shake a weather-vane at… * He is also depriving us of food, and drink, and shelter. * Not one of the food waggons … Continue reading →

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Considering Heaven and Earth… ~ Stuart France

Posted on July 24, 2020 by Sue Vincent

* First a formless mass of light, then the firmament of stars, then sun and moon, then sea and land, then reptiles, and birds, then beasts, and man, and then, contemplation… * If the ‘candlestick vision’ which opens the Book … Continue reading →

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Callanish Calling: Threshold…

Posted on July 24, 2020 by Sue Vincent

* Anyway, Wen was wrong… It’s not a ‘reckie’ we’re on, it’s a raid! * But before we can ‘plunder’ Lewis of her treasury of stone, we have to get past the Dweller… * There is some debate over what … Continue reading →

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Callanish Calling: Isle of Skye…

Posted on July 22, 2020 by Sue Vincent

* Somewhat fortuitously we got the last room in practically the last B&B on the mainland. * Pictish art, courtesy of our landlady, Christine, greeted us in the porch. * We had proper coffee in the bedroom, a great view, … Continue reading →

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Callanish Calling: Light of the World…

Posted on July 21, 2020 by Sue Vincent

* What we had thought were the distant hills of Bonny Scortland, so recently traversed, turned out to be the hills of Skye herself yet to be encountered. * This trip was already proving to have more surprises than a … Continue reading →

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Tobias and the Angel: Grateful Dead… Stuart France

Posted on July 20, 2020 by Sue Vincent

William-Adolphe Bouguerea * … “If a story is canonical in one tradition and uncanonical in another it immediately raises two questions.” “What makes it ‘canonical’ for one tradition?” “And what makes it ‘uncanonical’ for the other?” “One might have supposed … Continue reading →

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Glisten ~ Kim Blades #writephoto

Posted on July 18, 2020 by Sue Vincent

The last oozings of a setting sun glisten on still waters freckled with dark shadows – touched by the cold of a dying day Continue reading at Kim Blades

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