by budedawnadmin | Apr 12, 2020 | Uncategorized
At Shaw’s Corner … There is something fascinating about seeing exactly where noteworthy writers crafted their works, as if we can absorb some o their creative genius from the ether, so a visit to the home of George Bernard Shaw (GBS), winner of a Nobel...
by budedawnadmin | Mar 24, 2020 | article
Here’s one written when my mother was still alive and which I’ve since updated …the experience I describe here became a distant memory as my mother’s vascular dementia progressed. Dementia is a demon who created a woman I disliked, dreaded seeing, but felt...
by budedawnadmin | Mar 4, 2020 | article, Devon
This info comes from a slender pamphlet called “Farthest From Railways: An Unknown Corner of Devon” by R. Pearse Chope, originally written in 1934. It seems Hartland Parish, despite being one of the largest in Devon, amounting to 17,000 acres in size, is too...
by budedawnadmin | Feb 13, 2020 | article, Uncategorized
Scott’s View Haig’s grave at Dryburgh Library at Abbotsford Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive. 1808. My journey to Abbotsford, home of Sir Walter Scott, was originally more a meeting with old friends than anything especially literary....
by budedawnadmin | Feb 7, 2020 | article, book
It’s a death-bed scene. C.J. Flood’s Infinite Sky, a novel of rural England, is not the stuff of idyll. No, this is ‘gypsies’ setting up home on someone’s land, bored out of their skulls vodka-drunk teenagers, poor communication between parents and their children (in...
