by Marg Roberts | Mar 19, 2021 | Uncategorized
Review of Seventy Percent Water by Jeanette Sheppard This debut collection of 31 flash fiction stories is beautifully bound by publisher EllipsisZine, its cover designed by Jeanette herself. It well illustrates the water of the title story, that human beings are...
by Marg Roberts | Dec 31, 2020 | Uncategorized
In this darkest of winters, one of the pleasures has been discovering local walks. One of my favourites has been to Ashow, along the lanes to Chesterton Grange, and through the woods below Hill Wootton. It takes a long time for all the leaves to fall, and the woods...
by Marg Roberts | Sep 16, 2020 | Uncategorized
Marram Grass, Ammophilia arenaia Marram describes the journey on Highland ponies through the Outer Isles, by Leonie Charlton and her friend. They ride from the tip of Barra up South and North Uist, the islands of Harris and Lewis, to the ancient stone circle of...
by Marg Roberts | Jul 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
The impact of the coronavirus on my life was sudden. I remember worrying about it during January and February because of news of deaths in Wuhan, China. In March the virus was clearly moving through Europe and my anxiety increased. It became personal on 4th...
by Marg Roberts | Apr 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
Book Review: John Alcock futura ventura ISBN 978-0-9538900-2-6 While neither art nor science finds A limit to our human minds. So ends, futura ventura, the title poem of this collection, by the late John Alcock. This impressive Pushkin...
by Marg Roberts | Dec 17, 2019 | Uncategorized
In December 2018, I began an online course, Tongues in Trees, provided by Roselle Angwin. I was looking to re-acquaint myself with the names and nature of trees I had thought little about since childhood. The course followed the Celtic moon calendar and 13 specific...
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