Five notes that changed the world — by Unknown on

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Rocking Minka to sleep, or trying to at least, I find myself making up silly lullabies. The scale I reach for instinctively is the major pen...

On Troubadours, Sufism and Robert Graves — by Unknown on

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Like many people I know, I never had any idea what I wanted to do when I grew up, but in my teens I nursed a secret wish to be a medieval tr...

Rattle 'n Roll — by Unknown on

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Thanks to Colin and Jane (from Telling the Bees ) for giving us the best, and most apt, baby rattle of all time. Fair trade too. Tim...

Bringing in the New — by Unknown on

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Nine days ago, at the tender age of forty-five, I became a father. Welcome to the world, Minka Rose Letcher. The name is Polish I think, an...

Raising the Dragon — by Unknown on

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The weekend before last we put on a French and Breton folk dance here on Dartmoor with Red Dog Green Dog and Wod (gig photos by Rima Staine...

The Story of Stories — by Unknown on

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Something of a departure for me this time - a story - so I hope you're sitting comfortably. It arrived, as so many of my ideas do, in th...

Courtyard Books — by Unknown on

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Of all the little pleasures in life, browsing in a secondhand bookshop is second to none, especially when the shop is well stocked with esot...