Monthly Archives: November 2012

November Daily Blog 10: trees, storm clouds, autumn colours.

Posted on November 10, 2012 by BarryH

Saturday was a day with the family.  After grey skies and morning rain the sun came out and so did we, taking the grandchildren to Bailey Park in Abergavenny.  The older two, aged 6 and 4, each had cameras and … Continue reading →

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November Daily Blog 9: reminiscences of gorges, waterfalls and footpaths.

Posted on November 9, 2012 by BarryH

My visit yesterday to the Brecon Beacons ‘Waterfall Country’ reminded me of the Viros Gorge running from the Taygetos Mountains to Kardamili on the west coast of the Mani Peninsula in the far south of the Peloponnese.  The two weeks … Continue reading →

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November Daily Blog 8: waterfalls and footpaths.

Posted on November 8, 2012 by BarryH

The sky was mostly blue when I got up on Thursday.  The sun was showing red through a narrow slit between the hill on the opposite side of the Valley and a band of cloud.  The forecast was for a … Continue reading →

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November Daily Blog 7: inactivity and verbal rambling.

Posted on November 7, 2012 by BarryH

I have to ‘fess up.  When I started the November Daily Blog as part of the NaBloPoMo (National Blog Posting Month) challenge I had the intention of using it as an incentive to do something different and interesting every day. … Continue reading →

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November Daily Blog 6: the role of the loo in creative writing.

Posted on November 6, 2012 by BarryH

Archimedes is reputed to have had his ‘Eureka!’ moment in the bath, though anecdote has it that he then ran out into the street naked shouting «εύρηκα!»  – “I’ve found it!”.  Presumably his slaves filled the bath with hot water, … Continue reading →

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November Daily Blog 5: clichés, truth and poetic cobblers.

Posted on November 5, 2012 by BarryH

Mention ‘Autumn’ and like-as-not someone will think of and, if they don’t have a filter between their mind and their mouth, trot out the line “season of mists and mellow fruitfulness”.  It has become so much a cliché that I … Continue reading →

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November Daily Blog 4: back to gloomy grey and the problems of weather forecasting.

Posted on November 4, 2012 by BarryH

The weather in Britain is highly unpredictable.  Low pressure systems coming in from the Atlantic at some point run up against the high pressure systems over Europe and where and how they do is subject to a whole host of … Continue reading →

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November Daily Blog 3: trees and autumn.

Posted on November 3, 2012 by BarryH

Not since the introduction of a virulent strain of Dutch Elm disease from North America in 1967 have trees been a main news item in the UK but, thanks to the Chalara fraxinea fungus affecting native ash, trees are now … Continue reading →

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November Daily Blog: towards a philosophy of enjoyment.

Posted on November 2, 2012 by BarryH

With the challenge to find something worth blogging about every day it was disconcerting to see Friday begin very grey, very wet and with a mountain of clearing up after having friends over for a meal on Thursday evening.  I’m … Continue reading →

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New challenge: A blog a day during November.

Posted on November 2, 2012 by BarryH

When I’m in Greece, which has been most of the summer for the last 3 years, I post a blog every day.  Similarly when I was in the Canadian Rockies for a month 2010-2011 I would come back from the … Continue reading →

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