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May.24.2011
Oh, do not give me sunrisewith day unbirthed,its head thrusting between poles in conflict,dawning of dismissalfrom a brighter sphereshrunk to oblivionin the womb of night,the sea's bloodbath gilded with promise
And do not give me sunriseon teasing cuspof an epiphany that cannot waxamidst a...
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May.22.2011
I had to smile at J T Ellison's recent post about 'owning your creative past'. For me, this has been the hardest thing in the world to do. It's my guilty secret.
After three decades and several published books, four more in the pipeline and the last volume of the Berkeley Trilogy still to...
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May.17.2011
On this, Edward Jenner's birthday (17 May 1749 – 26 January 1823) a snippet from THE WOLF AND THE LAMB...
That same winter at Berkeley, Fitz fell ill. Initially, it was feared he had contracted smallpox, but the symptoms presently revealed themselves consistent with scarlet...
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May.16.2011
The Supper at Emmaus - Velazquez
Poem from Jericho Rose, Songs from the Wilderness to be published winter/spring, 2012/13)
We had hung around those who followed him, on the fringesof what was going on.Something about him magnetised us -a harnessed energy -His actions were...
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May.07.2011
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A week has passed since Britain's wedding of the decade. Maybe it will prove the most significant nuptials in close to a century. Partying is over. The sound of heavenly choristers still rings in the rafters of the mind, but for those who are not opposed and can afford...
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May.05.2011
"They shall never get the marriage chain around my neck!"
(continued from last episode )
Mr Carrington was taken aside and the plan to marry outlined. The need for reticence was stressed. Berkeley would be obliged for his services as a witness. William Tudor, who had returned from a...
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Apr.30.2011
A cunning plot to fox the powers-that-be
Next day, Berkeley went straight to the offices of the Commissary of Surrey and swore an affidavit concerning his identity and lawful fitness, and that of his intended spouse, to be joined in Holy Matrimony. The Deputy in charge was Thomas Champion...
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Apr.29.2011
Silver Cross Balmoral pram
Whether you're a Prince, post-graduate or pauper, there's nothing surer than that destiny catches up with you.
For weeks, it seems everyone in Britain has been asking: 'Are you ready for the Royal Wedding?' It's spoken in the same throwaway tone we...
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Apr.24.2011
Oh, to be in England, now that April's there... Robert Browning
The oak treesymbol of Englandvies with beech
light drenchinglime-green canopiesof birthed leaves
fan vaultinginspires fancies ofcathedrals
this April'sResurrection sunharps new themes
mean...
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Apr.21.2011
Since Eden,the serpent in the gardenand occult worm coiled in the fruit's corehave been troublesome.
That day, his shadow fell across the door,the man with the softly penetrating gaze.The warped timbers stood ajar so that the shrunken laths, hanging on rust-mottled hinges,allowed a shard of...
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Apr.19.2011
The day spills
the contents of its
compartments
and seeks a
restraining order
that's not spring
Perhaps not
what God intends in
Holy Week
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Apr.17.2011
The death of his father brings William Cooper a change of address and an opportunity to rethink his future.
'I am sending you out like sheep among wolves.' The text fixed itself in William's mind. What the Wesleys had left behind was the solid framework of a sect which...
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Apr.07.2011
A dinner at Uxbridge House where Edward Jenner is discussed and Lord Berkeley is judiciously absent after the failure of the first House of Lords Inquiry into his eldest son's pedigree.
The King prorogued Parliament on the Glorious Twelfth of August and an informal dinner was held at...
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Apr.03.2011
The Anglican and Catholic Churches in Britain insist on calling this Sunday, not Mother's Day, but Mothering Sunday. It harks back to the practice, right up to circa WWII, when daughters of the lower classes commonly went into service in the houses of the better-off. On the fourth Sunday of Lent,...
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Mar.29.2011
Most of the time, butter wouldn't melt!
El Springador 's back at his post after a claw-biting brush with mortality.
I think it's high time I put paw to keyboard, whilst Herself has gone awol, and updated you folks about what's been happ'ning.Spring's sprung and the patch is only half...
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...at the still point, there the dance is.”
—Burnt Norton - T. S. Eliot
About Rosy
Rosy Cole was born and educated in the Shires of England and now lives on the West Sussex coast. A professional writer for thirty years, she has worked as a Press Officer and Publisher's Reader and is a member of the Society of Authors (UK), the Historical...
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Causes Rosy Cole Supports
World Vision, International Prison Outreach, Salvation Army, Emmaus Project, Poor Clares, DogsTrust, BUAV (against animal testing) WWT (Wildfowl &...
Rosy’s Favorite Books
Restoration - Rose Tremain, Rites of Passage - William Golding, The Waves - Virginia Woolf, To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf, Sunset Song - Lewis Grassic...