Apologies for dropping off the internet for the last month or so. Things have been a bit mad even by my work's crazy standards. I'll save you the gory details of the relentless erosion of contracts, terms and conditions, and the casualisation of professional academic staff in UK higher education. Suffice to say, after being reduced to a two month
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There is something for me, always in the sight of branches against the sky. It is like the tail of a dream that I cannot quite catch.
As a kid I had a little blue painted room with peaked ceiling. (You may remember it, I gave it to Horatio.) I had just one window with wobbly blown glass panes. It looked out over trees. On winter mornings I would get up in the cold to milk the goats and feed chickens before school. My view was that, winter lace, oak tree branches against the white winter sky.
It is the visual equivalent to the smell of faraway woodsmoke. A little bit lonesome for something you cannot name.
Funny, you know, the smell of woodsmoke and the sight of trees would have done nothing at all for Archie or Horatio. It would be like us felling nostalgia for cars or soda cans. We don't see the beauty of what is all around.
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I despatched the jolly boat yesterday so it won't be with you until the New Year, but hopefully it'll raise a smile when it arrives ;)
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There will be another child now, sleeping in that little slanted room.
I wonder if there is a kid in Horatio's room too? (After all, Marlowe's house was still inhabited until WWII!
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And thank you so much for sending Scrimgeour's diary. I'll look forward to reading it.
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You have had such a barrage of things to cope with all in a mad scramble
I do hope the season has a few quiet moments somewhere along the line as well as some fun ones .
then the news today must affect you as everyone in Glasgow * so more hugs*
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the news today must affect you as everyone in Glasgow * so more hugs*
Thanks. It's just awful for something like this to happen at this time of year, especially after the Clutha crash last year.
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I hope you and family will have a peaceful quietly happy Christmas.
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