Spike Woods
IN BREAKHEART QUARRY.
Mon. 10 Dec 2000. 8.45am. It's very windy on the exposed slopes of Waterley Bottom hill; warmer and sheltered in the quarry but...
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Spike Woods
Nov 9, 2021
PIG LATIN. 9 Nov 2021.
Pig Latin is the use of English words that in some comical way sound like historical Latin. I first came across it at school where I was...
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Spike Woods
Jul 9, 2021
PATRON SAINTS OF . . . . .
A few years ago I amused myself by thinking of comical names for particular patron saints. here are a few - - - - - Lots more to come....
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Spike Woods
Nov 4, 2020
Apple peanut butter!
I think I may have invented a new spread! For the last few days I have been making apple sauce and bottling it. I also made some jars of...
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Spike Woods
Oct 18, 2020
Paddy and the curragh.
You're in for a treat if you've never rowed a curragh! A friend of mine's Dad had one and let me row it in Pwllgwaelod bay in Pembs when...
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Oct 17, 2020
Fragment of a life.(A small extract of a longer narrative).
Along the willow river valley an otter whistled; the evening closed warm over the trees and the sunset flared red among the flickering...
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Oct 15, 2020
WILFORD PIT
Wilford pit is the only coal mine I have been down. Dave Turner, musician and comic, was working as a ganger there ( in charge of the pit...
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Oct 14, 2020
VOYAGE TO ARCTURUS.
One of the most influential books I've read is by David Lindsay. I believe it was published in the thirties, and called Voyage to...
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Spike Woods
Oct 13, 2020
AN IDYLL (script for an animated film 1970s)
creepers slowly climbing the old house's side. like the gnarled fingers of an aged human, wrinkled and sly. The still Grecian...
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Spike Woods
Oct 13, 2020
Touchless streamless voidless windless
The cabbages tremble in the long paradise of gravied stifled truth and are swallowed to the crunched midden of acid dark. Gibbons are...
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Oct 12, 2020
THE GREAT SPECKLED BIRD.
It was New Year's Eve and I was nineteen, and filled with the Bird-God myth. I crossed the river Trent by ferry-boat at Barton ferry and...
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Oct 4, 2020
TOM SCOTT and DEREK MAHON.
If you want to know more about anything, look no further than Tom Scott on youtube. He's put up an incredible amount of informative and...
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Spike Woods
Oct 1, 2020
Fish eggs and Richard Jefferies.
I just heard on the radio the scientific explanation of how fish appear in a landlocked pond. The usual explanation was that birds...
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Spike Woods
Sep 30, 2020
Joe Bussard, Harry Smith and Albert and Les Ward.
I spent an hour or two making horseradish sauce, with weeping eyes and copious sinus activity. What a powerful plant! Nothing quite like...
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Sep 29, 2020
Storkspit, Horseradish and Chutney.
Remembering a morning in late summer many years ago when I went out to the lawn to find scrambled egg strewn all over it! Great gobbets...
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Spike Woods
Sep 28, 2020
Pet nothing and persecute nothing.
The nature writer W.H. Hudson wrote an adage that appeals to me : Pet nothing and persecute nothing. I presume he was mainly referring to...
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Spike Woods
Sep 27, 2020
Fountain pens, song books and pop music. Sept. 27 2020.
There's nothing worse than a fountain pen that works intermittently! There's usually caked ink somewhere in the feed from the barrel to...
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Spike Woods
Sep 26, 2020
EDWARD LOXTON KNIGHT.(Sept.26).
In the middle of last night I woke up thinking about the first Art teacher who taught me (apart from my mother and father). In 1949 I...
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Sep 25, 2020
September 26 2020.
There is a cool wind blowing across the garden from the North-East, scattering carmine Virginia creeper leaves across the grass -...
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Spike Woods
Sep 24, 2020
LOCKDOWN SPOONS etc.
April 2 2020. Corona virus still rampant across the world. I am isolating myself here for the duration. and one of my daughters is...
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