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A summer's day of parasitic protagonism in Bitsy. bitsy.org

Our son was born the year before Queen Elizabeth II died, but to him she is still 'The Queen'.

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The rain falling Scotchly, Scotchly And the hills that did not soar up but in Ian Hamilton Finlay

a glitched satellite image of a british coastline, showing clouds and sea in geometric, squared blocks with different apparent climates

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On New Years Day I long to meet my parents as they were before my birth. The grassy lawn: amid the shimmering heat waves a dog's dream.

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Game Boys and gloaming: Ripon Tor, Pil Tor, Top Tor, Ruddycleave Brook, Buckland Beacon, 2nd November 2025

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The calf was born unacceptable (a long neck like a swan's, testicle-eyed) and so it went into the lake alive. The thing was so young that it hadn't ever known gravity. We didn't recognise it either: it was 1562.

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Where Does the Night Start? - Dark Mountain

Dark Mountain have published an improved version of my essay Where Does The Night Start? - the improvement mostly due to Nick Hunt's thorough editing. You're right, Nick: washing the gravel path in the sink was a bit much. dark-mountain.net/where-does-the-ni…

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Robert Sherman writes about the legal arguments surrounding the right to wild camp on Dartmoor, England, and a victory for the dreamers

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John 'Kyffin' Williams, Y Garn and Foel Goch, 1950

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St. Fagan's National Museum of Welsh History, 2018 museum.wales/stfagans

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Anselm Keifer, "Aus Herzen un Hirnen spriessen die Halme der Nacht (From Hearts and Brains the Stalks of Night Are Sprouting)", 2021

Ramsay Island, on a seabird's birthday, 2017

the old keepers cottage on Ramsay Island

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There's an offer at the cafe, but it pointedly excludes the almond croissant. There's a glint on the information booth, because they think that the public can be trusted with glass. There's the sun, toothlessly gearing itself up. There's a gull unspeakably dead somewhere.

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A summer's day of parasitic protagonism in Bitsy. bitsy.org

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The rain falling Scotchly, Scotchly And the hills that did not soar up but in Ian Hamilton Finlay

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On New Years Day I long to meet my parents as they were before my birth. The grassy lawn: amid the shimmering heat waves a dog's dream.

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Where Does the Night Start? - Dark Mountain

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Robert Sherman writes about the legal arguments surrounding the right to wild camp on Dartmoor, England, and a victory for the dreamers

John 'Kyffin' Williams, Y Garn and Foel Goch, 1950

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St. Fagan's National Museum of Welsh History, 2018 museum.wales/stfagans

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Anselm Keifer, "Aus Herzen un Hirnen spriessen die Halme der Nacht (From Hearts and Brains the Stalks of Night Are Sprouting)", 2021

Ramsay Island, on a seabird's birthday, 2017

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"Suddenly it was very pleasant, sitting by the lochside across the way from Quinag, on a weekday morning, drinking strong coffee in weak sunlight. Kings do not have it better." Andrew Grieg, At The Loch Of The Green Corrie

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There's a silver vortex over the coffee. There's a tangle of sweet pea pods on a plate like calligraphy. There's a triptych of grandparents, living as they once did, on the wall. There's one isoceles of egg-blue sky, between the house and the windowframe.

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In this year that I have been an adult for longer than I ever was a child, I've discovered a novel feature of my body and mind: one weird trick. To perform it, you need to be stood, sat or lying in a place that isn't quite silent.

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Bonfire Dog @bonfiredog.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

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We bought almost all of Avery's work for our interactive storytelling students - masterclasses in writing that fulfils the very best promises of interactive storytelling.

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Bonfire Dog @bonfiredog.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

St. Fagan's National Museum of Welsh History, 2018 museum.wales/stfagans

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Bonfire Dog @bonfiredog.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

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Where Does the Night Start? - Dark Mountain

Robert Sherman writes about the legal arguments surrounding the right to wild camp on Dartmoor, England, and a victory for the dreamers

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Bonfire Dog @bonfiredog.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

John 'Kyffin' Williams, Y Garn and Foel Goch, 1950

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Bonfire Dog @bonfiredog.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

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Bonfire Dog @bonfiredog.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The rain falling Scotchly, Scotchly And the hills that did not soar up but in Ian Hamilton Finlay

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Bonfire Dog @bonfiredog.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

It's a special kind of warmth, walking through the November drizzle while your laptop furiously OCRs railway accident reports from the 1850s in your backpack

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Bonfire Dog @bonfiredog.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Game Boys and gloaming: Ripon Tor, Pil Tor, Top Tor, Ruddycleave Brook, Buckland Beacon, 2nd November 2025

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Bonfire Dog @bonfiredog.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

My employer, the University of Exeter, is proposing to cut 150 jobs across Humanities, Social Sciences and beyond. 500 staff (including myself and my whole department) are at risk. The university has almost 0 debt and £210 million in cash reserves. Please sign: www.change.org/p/stop-redun...

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Bonfire Dog @bonfiredog.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Interested in learning how to produce interactive storytelling with us in Devon, UK? VIdeo games? TTRPGs? Interactive installations? Site-specific weirdness on Dartmoor? Free talk/Q&A online, March 9th, 4.00-5.30pm GMT Sign up: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/english-an... Signal boosts welcome.

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English and Creative Writing - MA Interactive Storytelling Design

Dive into epic tales and design interactive stories in this fun online MA Creative Writing course!

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Bonfire Dog @bonfiredog.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Good King Wencelas looked out, On the Feast of STEPHEN When the snow lay round about Deep and crisp and STEPHEN Brightly shone the moon that night Though the frost was STEPHEN When a poor man came in sight Gath'ring winter STEPHEN

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Bonfire Dog @bonfiredog.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Absolutely no reason for this Mr. Benn book cover to slap as hard as a Vertigo trade paperback from 1998