Personal diary of John Barnabas (aka Barney) Leith
From the monthly archives:
Growth is all around – a young mother (my daughter, Hari) with her baby (Jake), walking in the spring woods in the wonderfully named Robbery Bottom in Welwyn, Hertfordshire.
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower
Drives my green age…
Dylan Thomas
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in Just-
spring when the world is mud-
luscious the little
lame balloonman
whistles far and wee
and eddieandbill come
running from marbles and
piracies and it’s
spring
when the world is puddle-wonderful
the queer
old balloonman whistles
far and [...]
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Aah, the wonderful signs of Spring.
Come, gentle Spring! ethereal Mildness! come.
James Thomson
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.
Shakespeare, Sonnet 18
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What is it about blogs? How come I feel I have a responsibility to write? I’ve been too busy since I last wrote to launch my blog application and put a few words in the window – it’s all serious, grown-up, work-related busy-ness, I hasten to add – and yet this darned blog lurks, the [...]
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I always get a bit nervous when I do a live interview on radio, and I certainly got nervous in the run-up to appearing as a guest on London-based Premier Christian Radio’s Unbelievable show earlier today. It’s a discussion and phone-in show and I was in the studio with another (Christian) guest from 12.15 to [...]
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I’ve just returned home from the UK Bah?’? National Convention in Llandudno, North Wales. Llandudno is a Victorian seaside resort, with some charming areas, especially the road that runs along the sea front and the streets that climb up the Great Orme, the headland that overlooks Llandudno and that was a site of some very [...]
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