Book launch 2nd April
Morning,
Just a quick email to let you know/remind you that Farmotherlands is launching on 2nd April at The Holroyd Community Theatre, off Station Road, Weston Rhyn SY10 7SZ.
Doors open 6:15pm and the talk starts at 7pm. Tickets cost £18 from Booka (and include the book as well as the evening’s entertainment). You can … Read more
A study of a blackbird washing
Zen and the art of bricks
I don’t remember much of Zen and the Art of Motor Cycle Maintenance, but once bit that stuck with me is when someone is struggling to write because they don’t know where to start. The mentor guides the would-be writer’s attention to zoom in from the whole view, to … Read more
Enough
Enough
as in ‘that’s enough now stop hitting your brother’
as in ‘you’ve had enough wine/ice-cream/chocolate for today’
as in ‘as much as is required’ (by whom? for what?)
as in ‘sufficient’
as in ‘adequate’
as in ‘ample’
What dull words. No wonder we don’t like ‘enough’. It feels like curtailing, settling, depriving, not … Read more
Book Launch – 2nd April
Join me for an evening of poetry, community, farming, nature and music.
Click here to find out more and book or pop into Booka Bookshop Oswestry
Details of where to buy the book if you’re not coming to the launch to follow soon.
Farmotherlands (Hedgehog Press) is Julie’s debut poetry collection which has already … Read more
Otters, words and buy a share of Babbinswood Farm
Otter
I found a dead otter by the side of the road the other day. It looked peaceful. Its front legs were crossed gently as if relaxing. It had a face like a dog. It didn’t seem crushed or injured so I’m not convinced it had been hit by a car, but they why was … Read more
Rolling Pins – that’s the way to do it
Did you know that rolling pins were first used by the Etruscans in the 9th century BC? I wonder then if rolling was women’s work?
Long. Thin. Hard.
Lacan, a psychoanalyst said that Freud was wrong. That women didn’t envy the penis itself, that we don’t want an actual one dangling between our legs. But … Read more