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The old agriculture
on Dec 1, 2005Languishing at home with bronchitis, I've been reading George Ewart Evans Ask the Fellows who Cut the Hay, of 1956 (the year I was born :-)). He doesn't gloss over the hardships of the old agricultural life, but he does have a great sympathy for it.
Protective tabus
on Nov 24, 2005I'm a bit torn today between support for James Randi, who does a terrific job debunking quackery and unreason, and my affection for folk tradition. He has an item A strong fairies' union? on his online newsletter, Swift, about the people of St. Fill...
Hello Britain, you can stop beating yourselves up now
on Nov 22, 2005What a sweetie Dr John Sentamu is. The new Archbishop of York. Normally wouldn't care what goes on in the Church of England, but this man has given England a message, as reported in The Times that must go for Scotland too. More or less: "Okay, you...
The Lady and the Highwayman
on Nov 22, 2005Well, I'll be dipped in dogshit - as Fat Freddy always used to say in the cartoons - Tesco has got The Lady and the Highwayman on DVD for97p. They have a load of old rubbish in minimal packaging, mainly children's cartoons, and one or two grown-up fi...
Long live backlists
on Nov 20, 2005What wonderful times these are for film-lovers. There are so many old films coming out on DVD. It must be twenty years ago that Channel 4 had a season of Mae West and Rudolph Valentino, and I've been waiting years to see them again. The Mae West box...
Heimat
on Nov 16, 2005I had occasion today to look for background on the word Heimat, the German word for ‘home, one’s native place’, with untranslatable connotations of the countryside, village life, childhood and community. I suspect that for younger people the m...