Michael Peverett

  1930s pressmen .] >   "But Britten," asked one of the men, "why did the old man want > this Erlone released?"  >   "Figure it out for yourself," Britten sa...

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Favourite pitches #1: halfway across this footbridge leading from the carpark to the shops and cafés. Lots of passers-by, not much road noise. Also used by other musicians, homeless beggars,...

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  Dewberry > Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more > agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon > tea. There are c...

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In spare online moments over the last few months I've been reading poetry (and interviews etc) by Catherine Wagner. I'm not sure what started it, her name just popped into my head. I've known...

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I've been in Torrevieja, near Alicante, for a week at the beginning of March, and of course I've taken a few snaps of the common early flowers.  I don't promise to identify them all. My gu...

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Don Diego (Pablo Sanz) . ] La escena es en una posada de Alcalá de Henares. The scene is a guest-house in Alcalá de Henares. El teatro representa una sala de paso con cuatro puertas ...

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  The Interview between Effie Deans and her Sister in Prison, 1873 engraving by James Faed from a painting by Robert Herdman. .] A strangely powerful title, The Heart of Midlothian. (O...

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  A very early flush of cherry blossom... three small trees on the Mount estate in Frome. These photos are from 22 February 2024, the blossom already slightly past its best. (It's been an...

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  A bit of Swedish grammar... Forms of the relatively few neuter nouns ending in -o (I have just realized), follow the model of neuter nouns ending in -e. äpple, meddelande : apple, mes...

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  Silver coin, E. Danubian Celts (Carpathian mountain region), 2nd century BCE. In Britain in 55 BCE (Julius Caesar reported) the Celts used ring money. But on the European mainland they h...

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Daisy. Frome, 23 January 2024. Michael Peverett's Year-round Wildflower Solitaire is a game I invented a few years ago. (It could do with a snappier name; actually it never had a name until t...

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Sandy Denny's remarkable song, said to be only the second one she ever wrote.  Like Lee Harwood's "Question of Geography" , a defining 1960s document, portrait of a new society.  Time i...

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Arrangement in Yellow and Gray: Effie Deans, painting by James McNeill Whistler, painted c. 1876-c. 1878. .] "such delicate points of chronology" (The Heart of Midlothian, Ch 23). This ...

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> COLD FRONT  >  > this shivering caravan  >  >                             reeks of rum,  >  > shadows smear an atlas  >  >         �...

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All Saints' Church, Spofforth (near Harrogate, North Yorkshire) . This is where Laurence Eusden was baptised in 1688. His father was the rector.] > The Transformation of the THEBAN Matr...

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While staying at Kyli's for a couple of days, I managed to record a singalong album of well known Swedish songs. All except one are in the 1944 edition of Sjung Svenska Folk! They're a mixtur...

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As regular readers will know I usually try to mix it up (a bit). So it's with apologies that I immediately follow one post about a popular Swedish song with another one. But hey, Christmas i...

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Midsummer Dance (Midsommardans), 1897 painting by Anders Zorn  . This is the version in the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm.] Å JÄNTA Å JA Traditional Värmland polska with words by Fred...

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Respon moy, meschant Loir, (me rens-tu ce loyer,    Pour avoir tant chanté ta gloire et ta louange)    As-tu osé barbare, au milieu de ta fange    Renversant mon bateau, sous tes flots m�...

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  Original French text of Madeleine Férat from La Bibliothèque électronique du Québec (PDF): https://beq.ebooksgratuits.com/vents/zola-madeleine.pdf The jacket is based on a sce...

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 Dear readers  Today I'm handing over to a friend of mine who is highly opinionated and observant and always seems to have plenty to say about everything and who I've probably stolen many ide...

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Two trees I noticed at places we stopped when driving home through France. Even if you get no further than the aires, as we largely didn't,  there's always plenty to look at. (The previous d...

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I've read somewhere that a century ago almost every male adult could ride a horse; now, hardly any can. It was one of the least remarked of social revolutions.  (The author must have meant i...

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There is so much that doesn't matter, you taught me, But of course we would both misapply this lesson sometimes, we both knew that, And yet as we climbed the hill, paths diving away to left...

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Olivarda (Dittrichia viscosa).  A perennial, woody at the base. At a time of year when there are very few other wild plants in flower, this very common plant is reassuringly blooming. "Oli...

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