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**Book, Podcast, Film, and Blog Reviews**

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John Stevens 26/07/2023 John Stevens 26/07/2023

Film Review - Indiana Jones, Dial of Destiny

Oppenheimer…not this evening. Mission Impossible…later. Indiana Jones & Dial of Destiny…YES!

John Stevens 21/07/2023 John Stevens 21/07/2023

Rant: very annoying words & phrases

A rant: I am half-American, however, I shake my head in despair at how easily we English allow our language to be infected with American buzzwords and corporate nonsense. Sign here to resist!

John Stevens 21/07/2023 John Stevens 21/07/2023

I broke a mug

This morning I swept a mug off the draining board and it broke into a few pieces on the floor. The poem will tell its own story.

John Stevens 19/07/2023 John Stevens 19/07/2023

Book Review: Act of Oblivion, Robert Harris

When Charles II authorised State sponsored executions…of the ’regicides’, the men who had signed the death warrant of his father Charles I…Harris’ book traces the chase between escaping regicides and their would be assassin. A page-turner.

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Podcast Review: How to Fail with All Black Dan Carter

All Black World Cup winning Dan Carter talks about his failures and setbacks - the man behind the image of an invincible number 10 for the all-conquering All Blacks -to Elizabeth Day on her excellent podcast How to Fail

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Three Things in the background, easily missed

We miss things that are definitely there…the ticking clock we cannot hear…the obvious drowned in the familiar

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The Moon

Can anything more be said about the Moon?

Maybe not! True originality is hard to come by.

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Paris ’24 – 11th July. It’s not just professional sportsmen and women…

Paris-24 essential back-up

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The Pendeen Ashes 2013

A mustard pot filled with the ashes of a jigsaw?

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Book Review: Hannah Coulter by Wendell Berry

Set in small town Kentucky Wendell Berry’s novel immerses his readers in a way of life and how it has changed over the decades since 1940 through the eyes of Hannah Coulter from her youth into her late seventies. An excellent read.

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Follow Me

The call of God can sound so mysterious and unknowable but no more so than a woman carrying an unborn child, or farmer sniffing the rain on a day without clouds, or a surfer waiting for the wave…when these things happen, you know.

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Joey Mitchell…live performance…on Hope

Joey Mitchell…live…

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Book Review: Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

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Steam on the Windowpane

A fictional piece that slid into place after the phrase ‘steam on the windowpane’ lodged itself on a post-it. It’s the reader who ascribes meaning, the author just starts the ball rolling.

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We Shall Rise

About to leave for the beach…

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Lost & Found

Stereotyping isn’t particularly clever but I hope you don’t balk at its use here and can enjoy the point of the poem…even if you are a Lost & Found Officer and feel aggrieved at my description!

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Growing Towards the Light

Growing Towards the Light was inspired by the mundane act of turning a geranium around so a different side could get the light

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Paris ’24 – 4th June 2023

Paris ‘24…it’s back on

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Two Toothbrushes

Staying with friends…things to notice in the bathroom