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...
by budedawnadmin | Feb 4, 2020 | article
On Fat Thursday in Krakow, you eat Pączki (filled doughnuts) as people run around with box loads of them. They are of heavy consistency, filled with sickly sweet-scented rose-flavoured jam. Some are better than others, and some of the jam is better than others, too!...
by budedawnadmin | Feb 4, 2020 | article, Uncategorized
As it was recently Holocaust Memorial Day, it seemed pertinent to include my writing from my first visit to Auschwitz. Back in the mid-1980s, I was in Linz when my friend told my partner and me that she was going to take us to a place we would never forget. She was...
by budedawnadmin | Feb 4, 2020 | article
Now we have Brexited, I’m resurrecting a few blog posts set in Europe. Belgium is seriously underrated. With its reputation as a boring country with little to commend it, the question on everyone’s lips if you visit is: why? The question on my lips is why does...
