Tag Archives: meaning

Guest author – Robbie Cheadle: Two nursery rhymes with an interesting history

Posted on April 19, 2017 by Sue Vincent

 Aiken Drum When my son Gregory was a small lad, we had a CD for the car which included a folk song/nursery rhyme called Aiken Drum. I had never heard this nursery rhyme before but we both enjoyed it a … Continue reading →

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Field of Sheaves II… Stuart France

Posted on April 16, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* …But first to the finding, which was not easy and which though I am utterly loathe to admit it, was down to Wen. I should have known then. Turning up on my patch and finding things! Still I suppose … Continue reading →

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Music that means something – Day 5 – Joni Mitchell

Posted on April 12, 2017 by Sue Vincent

Joni Mitchell wasn’t at Woodstock and neither was I. She missed it because of a TV appearance, I missed it by being born about a decade too late and on the wrong continent. But I remember vividly watching it on … Continue reading →

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Music that means something – Day 3 – Led Zeppelin

Posted on April 10, 2017 by Sue Vincent

Yes, I know. It is the rock song that everyone loves to hate apparently. It is almost as if it is so popular no-one wants to admit to liking it any more. I love it…I always did and these days, … Continue reading →

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Considering White-Skunk III… Stuart France

Posted on April 1, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* That White-Skunk possess power is not in doubt. Bald-Eagle himself is wary of it. The point at issue is the uses to which that power is put. White-Skunk uses his power as a weapon to serve his own ends … Continue reading →

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Considering White-Skunk II… Stuart France

Posted on March 30, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* Winged creatures are almost universally regarded as symbols of spirituality. Is there any evidence to regard them as such in this tale? Bald-Eagle has fire. Meadow-Lark has far sight. Rice-Bird can play dead. Not a bad ‘trawl’. * * … Continue reading →

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Considering White-Skunk… Stuart France

Posted on March 28, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* The Opening dynamic resembles the ‘Edenic’ in so far as a prohibition is transgressed… ‘Do not eat from that tree, for you shall surely die.’ ‘Do not cross the lodge, for you shall leave a stench.’ * …And there … Continue reading →

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The Broken Fortress… Stuart France

Posted on March 1, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* PC 963 Kraas turned and walked head-long into the sea breeze. Her hair flicked in the wind like rampant flames. “You know, I can’t help feeling we’ve missed a trick with this one.” “It’s mentioned in the book,” replied … Continue reading →

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Bent-Red-Sun-Day… Stuart France

Posted on February 27, 2017 by Sue Vincent

*  … “Oh, that’s good!” “Even though I don’t have a clue to what you’re referring.” “Ah, well I expect that particular quotation may have more to do with spring than autumn anyway.” “Or it may simply have something to … Continue reading →

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Keys to the House of Don III… Stuart France

Posted on February 25, 2017 by Sue Vincent

* ‘…Such a situation invites the approach of treating the various versions  as at least theoretically, the garbled remnants of an episodic whole. While such a method can never lead us to the definitive story but merely and at every … Continue reading →

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