by Miranda Pender | Mar 9, 2023 | Art
YEOVIL CREATIVES AT THE OCTAGON Art Exhibition open until the end of April The Octagon Theatre in Yeovil, one of South Somerset’s premier arts and entertainment venues, will soon be closing for a complete refurbishment. Yeovil Creatives are honoured to be the...
by Miranda Pender | Feb 8, 2023 | Art
CREATIVE JOURNEY OPEN EXHIBITION Sou’-Sou’-West Gallery, Symondsbury Estate Creative Journey at Sou’-Sou’-West Gallery at Symondsbury near Bridport, Dorset, runs from 4th – 26th February, open daily 10:30 – 15:30 I’m delighted to be part of...
by Miranda Pender | Jan 9, 2023 | Art
NINE BARROW DOWN Polly Pedantic points out that there are in fact eighteen Bronze Age bowl barrows on Nine Barrow Down, plus a Neolithic long barrow, so it really ought to be called Nineteen Barrow Down…….. Whatever. Mark and I were up there in the desiccated days of...
by Miranda Pender | Jan 2, 2023 | news
HAPPY NEW YEAR! When is a quote not a quote? The New Year greeting below is attributed to the German poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 – 1963) but apparently he never said or wrote those exact words. They seem to have originated from a letter written to his wife...
by Miranda Pender | Nov 21, 2022 | Talks
The author Norah C James has pretty much been forgotten now, but in 1929 she was front-page news when her first novel, Sleeveless Errand, was banned under the Obscene Publications Act. Norah was my grandfather’s first cousin – and I don’t know about...
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