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Into The Silence, Wade Davis
It is said that George Mallory and Andrew Irvine went missing on the 8th June 1924, and either died on that day, or the day after. If it was the 9th of June; then today would mark the 100th anniversary of the deaths of the two mountaineers, who were last sighted only a few hours,…
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What a Ghost can say; of being The First Signature on the Death Warrant of a King of England
It has been said that the quote “Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God” should be attributed to the man named as me; whose signature was foremost on the death warrant of King Charles 1st of England. After my burial with full honours in Westminster abbey, where there is a memorial in a corner to…
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The 123rd Anniversary of the Birth of James (Jim), from the Cheshire side of a Two County Town, Divided by the Mersey; and as Old as the Years!
“Coast to island narrow sea, three in one and one in three, lock on door and turn of key, one on one in one and free:” 1, 2, 3. Today; 12th June 2023, is the 123rd anniversary of the birth of James (Jim); father of Alan James, grandfather of John James, and great grand father…
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Remembering Adrian Doherty; on the Fiftieth Anniversary of his Birth
There are two Old Trafford’s in Greater Manchester; One where Lancashire County Cricket is played, and the other; home of Manchester United. A cricket thread stitches ‘A Scapeshifter’ together (the poetry this site is about), and though still relevant to the theme; this blog is about an apprentice footballer who suffered a career ending injury…
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Tim Mcgee’s Learnstrong Web Site
It is enjoyable for me when I find an interesting web site or you tube channel; where useful and educational content has been posted, and is freely available to help those who wish to be assisted in their learning. Ostensibly; Tim Mcgee stands in front of a camera, in a school class room type setting,…
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The Mermaid Pool; Kinder Scout
“Or royally step to slake a thirst, under moorland mermaid birch.” These are the lines 358, and 359, from the poem A Scapeshifter, which goes on from, and corresponds to; the lines in T S Elliot’s poem The Wasteland “Drip drop drip drop drop drop drop, But there is no water”. The water in the…
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J. Krishnamurti in Poetry
Today; the 11th of May 2023 is remembered as the putative birthday of Jiddu Krishnamurti, born in 1895. Charles Webster Leadbetter, born in Stockport in 1854, and member of the Theosophical Society, then later; a bishop in the Liberal Catholic Church, identified J Krishnamurti as a future world teacher, claiming that he saw an aura…
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The Wasteland
In October 1922; the British literary magazine The Criterion, and in November, the American magazine The Dial; published T S Elliot’s modernist poem The Wasteland, which is widely acknowledged to be one of the great poetic works of the twentieth century. To mark its centenary, in 2022: and to contrast the present with the past,…
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Adventure awaits
“The Mystic ocean of existence is not to be crossed as something outside ourselves. It is within.” “The movement of this Work is psychologically inwards, at first. Later it is both inwards and outwards.” Above; the two short paragraphs in inverted commas, are quotations by Maurice Nicoll (19th July 1884 to 30th August 1953), a…
A Pebble on the Beach 