occasional Pleasings
A bite-sized blog ...
Just small sharings of things that please me ~ I hope you like them.
Sometimes they will be related to books or poetry ~ but they’ll often be completely random!
Soul Music
Nina Simone: Feeling Good
Our daily bread
A really easy bread recipe
She is Fierce
A feminist anthology
Alan Bennett
A pandemic diary
Creative Women
Interview with Marion Molteno
Inheritance Tracks
Joni Mitchell ~ Blue
A few boats
Messing about in boats
Temple View
Lunch, history, & a good blow!
Big skies
Big skies on Berneray
Pauline Prior-Pitt
The North Uist Poet
Spell Songs
For one month only
On the beach
An evening walk
Our journey
Heading north
Simon Armitage
The Poet Laureate
The Big Walk!
400,000 steps in 2 weeks!
Slightly Foxed
A new literary group
Wanting memories
A tribute to Ysaye Barnwell
Unexpected gift
A surprise snowfall
Inheritance tracks
Summer Holiday
Coffee
A daily pleasure
Poetry Extra
The Spring Equinox
Inheritance Tracks
My introduction to jazz
Yogurt
Home-made yogurt
Getting the steps in
Walking the hills
Easter Sunday
A poem for Easter
Knitting
Birlinn Yarns ~ from Berneray
Brain Tumour Trust
2 weeks | 200,000 steps | 2k!
Risotto
~ with (wine and) music
Friends
… in the garden
Skylark
Skylark
Maggie O’Farrell
Maggie O’Farrell
Gillian Clarke
Roots Home by Gillian Clarke
The Daffodils
Poetry and grand-children
Kenneth Steven
Poet, painter, writer
Hallelujah!
From one chorus to another
Dawn Chorus
The joy of waking early
Start the Week
Start the Week with Clare
Making a curtain
Threading a sewing machine
Derek Mahon
Derek Mahon ~ TRIBUTE
Chiffchaff
Song of the chiffchaff
Kenneth Steven
Kenneth Steven – poet, author
CECILY
CECILY by Annie Garthwaite
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