#Horatio Clare

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JOMP BPC - 28th December - This Month's Favourite

I really enjoyed this book. The author's use of language is beautiful, and his descriptions of places and people and also the depression he's experiencing, are so evocative. I was less convinced when he writes about his partner and also his description of starting treatment for the depression didn't quite ring true, but overall, I'm very pleased I read it.

He says this about what depression is like for him: the past is a guilty place, the future a hanging threat, the present a humiliation. Stop it, you want to shout. Just stop it. Let me be.

More cheery is his love for and detailed observation of the natural world: At St Ann's Head a buzzard surveys her planet from a fence post. What minor orders of life are all things under that small imperial gaze!

[bookjotter6865]

DEWITHON ‘24: Llyfrbabble (Bookbabble) #2

A series of short posts highlighting recent cultural and bookish chatter from Wales This is the second post of D24 in which we look at literary and other cultural goings-on (Welsh speakers may prefer sgwrsio llenyddol Cymraeg) from the land of poetry and song. ****************************   Are You a Cwlture Vwlture?   For those of you with an ear for a tune and a liking for underground…

[thehamletdiaries]

Hamlet and Horatio playlist Fire On Fire - Sam Smith Never Look Away - Vienna Teng Iris - Goo Goo Dolls Still Falling For You - Ellie Goulding All of Me - John Legend Longest Night - Howie Day Turning Page - Sleeping At Last Let’s Hurt Tonight - OneRepublic In My Veins - Andrew Belle Heartlines - Florence and the Machine  Sanctuary - Welshly Arms  Your Soul - Felix Jaehn and Rhodes Fade Into You - Sam Palladio and Clare Bowen The Great War - Taylor Swift True Colors - Kesha and Zedd Mountains - Biffy Clyro Middle of the Night - Elley Duhé Light Me Up - Ingrid Michaelson  The Lightning Strike - Snow Patrol Mystery of Love - Sufjan Stevens Run - Snow Patrol  The Light Behind Your Eyes - My Chemical Romance  Crossfire - Brandon Flowers Rainy Zurich - The Fray The Birds Are Singing at Night - Lord Huron

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Inspired by his own breakdown, the author’s generous and deeply researched guide to navigating mental health care in the UK is full of wisdom and hopeOne morning six years ago, Horatio Clare got out of bed and looked at the winter sunrise through a #BioTech #science

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ISBN: 978-960-645-615-2 Συγγραφέας: Benjamin Myers Εκδότης: Κλειδάριθμος Σελίδες: 272 Ημερομηνία Έκδοσης: 2024-06-01 Διαστάσεις: 20.5 x 14 Εξώφυλλο: Χαρτόδετο

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Auroville, a cidade onde é possível viver totalmente sem dinheiro

Auroville, a cidade onde é possível viver totalmente sem dinheiro

A cidade foi fundada a partir dos princípios da ioga integral e é uma comunidade internacional, onde vivem 50 mil pessoas de 50 países, inclusive do Brasil. Horatio Clare – BBC Inauguração de Auroville em 1968: presentes 123 nações. Auroville foi fundada em 1968 como um povoado internacional dedicado à busca de uma vida sustentável e harmoniosa. Oficialmente pertencente ao sul da Índia, desde…

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ICEBREAKER – Horatio Clare

To celebrate Finland’s centenary, Horatio Clare was invited to travel on an Icebreaker ship on a nordic adventure through the ice-packs of the far north.

In this off-beat travelogue, Horatio explores Finland’s little-known history and character. He also comes to understand something of the complexity and fragile beauty of ice, a near-miraculous substance which cools the planet, gives the stars their twinkle and which may hold all our futures in its crystals.

The jacket and endpapers were illustrated by Eoin Ryan

Icebreaker is available now in hardback

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Running for the Hills: A Family Story (Horatio Clare)

Running for the Hills: A Family Story (Horatio Clare)

Running for the Hills: A Family Story (Horatio Clare) lands on the shelves of my shop.

London: John Murray, 2006, Hardback in dust wrapper.

4th impression, first edition 2006.

From the cover: One summers day in the late 1960s two young Londoners fell in love with a hill farm in South Wales. They had almost no money, no idea about sheep, and their marriage was uncertain from the start.

Their new…

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Dance party with Hamlet, Horatio and Laertes, plus Guildenstern and Polonius...

Are they not the cutest cast ever?

From @alphelphs88 instagram story

[saltwaterandstars]

I'm reading The Light in the Dark by Horatio Clare at the moment, and I'm really enjoying it. His descriptions of people and places are so good. Here he's describing the food at the Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool:

The all-you-can-eat buffet is the heart of the hotel. Eight pounds fifty gets you a free run at a mound of food. The cabbage is good. The gravy is familiar. The roast potatoes are a reassuring mush of yellow fat. Then you must choose between battered fish which looks as though you could club a cat with it, beef like black iron turnings, a chicken leg which is too big to come from a terrestrial chicken, and the liver.

I mean, I really don't want to eat there, but I have such a vivid sense of the place and the food - I can practically smell it.

[bookjotter6865]

Winding Up the Week #163

Winding Up the Week #163

An end of week recap “Some are born Welsh. Some achieve Welshness. I am going to thrust myself upon Wales.”– Jasper Rees This is a weekly post in which I summarise books read, reviewed and currently on my TBR shelf. In addition to a variety of literary titbits, I look ahead to forthcoming features, see what’s on the nightstand and keep readers abreast of various book-related…

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@litredcorvette on Twitter: Hamlet and Horatio chilling in the blue room

Have you ever seen something so beautiful?

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I came upon a few hilarious fictitious book titles whilst reading Leave it to Psmith. For example, there’s mention of Psmith reading The Man with the Missing Toe and the highly regarded Songs of Squalor by the Canadian poet Raltson McTodd.

Richard Usborne has in fact provided an excellent list of Wodehouse’s fictitious book titles in his book Plum Sauce. Here are some that may tickle the diaphragm in fond remembrance…

Rosie M. Banks: Only A Factory Girl

Stultitia Bodwin: Offal

Lady Florence Craye: Spindrift

Lady Carnaby: Memories of Eighty Interesting Years

Adela Cream: Blackness At Night

Percy Gorringe: The Case of the Poisoned Doughnut

The Rev. Aubrey Jeringham: Is there A Hell?

Louella Peabody: My Friends the Newts

Alexander Worple: American Birds, More American Birds

Muriel Singer: The Children’s Book of American Birds

Horatio Slingsby: Strychnine in the Soup

Clare Throckmorton Stooge: A Strong Man’s Kiss

In Lord Emsworh’s Library: Pigs And How To Make Them Pay

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        ❛    STARSSPIN   ❜     //  ᴄᴏᴜʀᴀɢᴇ ᴅᴇᴀʀ ʜᴇᴀʀᴛ ; There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio. Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

    AN INDEPENDENT & SELECTIVE  multi muse. ――  featuring muses from starz’s spartacus, tolkien's legendarium, star wars, leverage, bridgerton, grishaverse, original characters & more. ――    est. OCT 2020         //    produced by katie ; 25+ ; she/her.   //     heavily affiliated with: @jedimastre​, @fleetcaptian​​ & @starssung​

┊┊*ੈ✩‧₊˚          CARRD // MUSES // temp rules

blogroll: @wornkindness​, @insufferablygood​, @heartcarried​, @starscrowncd​,

updated muse list under the cut:

muses are organized alphabetically by fandom, then name ** secondary muses

original characters elanoreth of dol amroth - fc. marina moschen mereliss of rohan - fc. clementine nicholson & jodi comer

a song of ice and fire eddard stark** - fc. chris pine

bridgerton edmund bridgerton - fc. jeremy northam & rupert evans violet bridgerton - fc. ruth gemmell

csi vegas: gil grissom - fc. william petersen

grishaverse baghra morozova - fc. synnove karlsen & zoe wanamaker lada garin** - fc. madeleine madden

haunting of hill house hugh crain** - fc. henry thomas & timothy hutton  olivia crain** - fc. carla gugino theodora crain** - fc. kate siegel

inheritance cycle brom holcombsson** - fc. adrian bower garrow cadocsson** - fc. jeffrey thomas marian edithsdottir** - fc. caitriona balfe murtagh morzansson - fc. freddy carter roran garrowsson - fc. mark rowley selena kendrasdottir** - fc. amy manson

leverage harry wilson** - fc. noah wyle james sterling** - fc. mark sheppard maggie collins - fc. kari matchett parker - fc. beth riesgraf tara cole - fc. jeri ryan

night at the museum octavius** - fc: steve coogan

spartacus gannicus - dustin clare ilithyia - fc. viva binaca laeta - fc. anna hutchison mira - fc. katrina law naevia - fc. lesley-ann brandt & cynthia addai-robinson quintus lentulus batiatus - fc. john hannah spartacus - fc. andy whitfield & liam mcintyre saxa - fc. ellen hollman sura - fc. erin cummings

star trek agnes jurati** - fc. alison pill chakotay** - fc. robert beltran guinan** - fc. ito aghayere & whoopi goldberg philippa georgiou (mirror) - fc. michelle yeoh una chin riley - fc. rebecca romijn

star wars bail organa** - fc. jimmy smits captain rex** - fc. temuera morrison commander cody - fc. temuera morrison jaro tapal** plo koon** qui-gon jinn - fc. liam neeson shmi skywalker** - fc. pernilla august

tolkien’s legendarium arondir - fc. ismael cruz córdova amrothos** - fc. mena massoud elboron** - fc. aramis knight elfwine - fc. avan jogia elphir** - fc. dev patel erchirion - fc. gregg chillin faramir - fc. mahesh jadu finduilas** - fc. indira varma imrahil** - fc. naveen andrews ivriniel** - fc. tba rosie cotton** - fc. angel coulby

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Monday, June 6, 2022 | Lampeter, Wales | 11:39 p.m.

Today started with a walk around New Quay, the town where Dylan Thomas set his famous radio play Under Milk Wood. The play is fiction but heavily based on real people and places. Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch, the poet who gave us the tour of the town, grew up there and had family who knew Dylan Thomas. One member of our cohort pointed out that everyone in Wales seems to be on first name basis with Dylan Thomas, no one ever calls him Thomas, it’s always Dylan. In fact, all of Wales feels like one small town where everyone knows everyone. We stopped outside one of the houses referenced in Under Milk Wood and there was a woman working out front who had bought the house from a man who inspired a character in the play.

We had a workshop with Sam in a building overlooking New Quay’s harbor. She had intricate, meaningful, encouraging feedback for everyone who shared. I’m paying close attention to all the workshop leaders on this trip in the hopes that their influence will help me be a better teacher this summer.

Next we had lunch and free time in the coastal town of Abaraeron. I had some very delicious, classic chips with vinegar, as well as one shop’s famous honeycomb ice cream, while sitting and walking along the harbor.

This afternoon we bid goodbye to Mary, our intrepid bus driver. We’ll have other drivers for the rest of the trip, but Mary has become quite an essential and entertaining part of our group.

We returned to Lampeter and our campus home late in the afternoon and had some time to rest. After dinner we had a talk by Horatio Clare, an author who writes memoir, travel writing, journalism, and more! He dispensed wisdom after wisdom, and I think everyone in the audience was really touched by the personal insights he shared about what it means to him to be a writer and write on difficult subjects like immigration, political division, and mental illness.

One of the lovely things about these visiting writer lectures/readings in the evenings is that locals are welcome too. There is a group of Welsh women who come to nearly every one, and Sophie and I have befriended a woman named Sarah. We talk to her before the readings about impressions of American vs Welsh culture, writing (she’s a poet), and life in general. She, like most people I’ve met in Lampeter, is very, very nice.