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Time Flies! Away with A Scapeshifter and Beauty Things
‘Time Flies’ is a song by The Lol Cooper Band (LCB). The song was put out on you tube on the 1st December 2025. This was the aim of of band leader Lol Cooper, and the writer of the song John Bradshaw. After receiving a book at the now long gone Normanton school in Buxton Read more
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One Hundred Years Since The Publication of T S Eliot’s Poem ‘The Hollow Men’ and a poem called ‘Beauty Things’ to Celebrate its Anniversary
On the 23rd November 1925, one hundred years ago today; T S Eliot’s poem ‘The Hollow Men’ was published, as an artistic expression that can be taken to be one of the poets finest works, and as a set of cliff notes; but of what?Three years before the ‘Hollow Men’ Eliot had published another poem Read more
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Kallistos Ware: the third anniversary of passing
There were many influential people who died in the year 2022; including my own Father. Today marks three years since the passing of the former Anglican, Kallistos Ware; who became became a monk and eastern orthodox bishop. Read more
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Time and Alan Garner
Today is the 90th birthday of the Cheshire writer Alan Garner. I began a secondary education at a school in Buxton called Normanton, now long since closed down, fifty years ago, and in my first year there; form 1, the teacher Mrs Kelly, daughter of headmaster Mr Hadlee, introduced the class to the work of Read more
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