Ted Davison's Blog

• A Star in my Eye

  January 20, 2010

  •                                        A STAR IN MY EYE                                             by Duane Preimsberger Hardly anybody has a real small Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Star in their eye unless they happen to be a little bit nuts and so I can claim that status! It wasn’t anything that happens easily it took some ...
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• Favourite Poem

  January 13, 2010

  • Oh dear... what a question. My favourite at any given moment depends on my mood:patriotic = Kipling ('Arithmetic on the Frontier')scientific = Chaucer ('Canon's Yeoman's Prologue')romantic = Dowson ('Cynara') depressed at Cretans' ill-treatment of animals =  Marvel ('The Nymph Complaining for the Death of her Fawn')melancholic = Dunbar ('Lament for the Makaris')comical = Edgar ('The Lion and ...
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• The largest used book shop in the world?

  November 4, 2009

  • It is my first visit to Richard Brooks' Second-Hand Bookshop in Hay-on-Wye (for the geographically challenged that’s in Wales). Within five minutes I am lost in a nether world. A lifetime's browsing from Sydney via Singapore to Southampton has not prepared me for this... Picture a substantial, three-storied house containing only two things - a very small number of people and a very large ...
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