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Willow

Posted on October 2, 2012July 13, 2020 by ShiverWriggle

By: everylittlething   Growing up in the northern reaches of England’s fen lands, willow has featured in my life from the very beginning. Now, in the northern highlands of Scotland, I see it growing steadfast at the edges of the flow country. Some willows should be classed as shrubs rather than trees – like the…

Mustelids

Posted on August 29, 2012July 13, 2020 by ShiverWriggle

By: everylittlething   Imagine a park for mustelids.  How much freedom, how many fences, might you allow these relentless killers?  Would the weasel be able to live alongside the pine marten?  The ferret and stoat could make good bedfellows – on the other hand – well – who can say?  They are a villainous crew….

Quartz

Posted on July 31, 2012July 13, 2020 by ShiverWriggle

By: everylittlething   Silica has never been top of the list of most-often-written-about subjects for poets. One might argue that quartz, because of its crystalline property, should inspire heavenly thoughts – but it doesn’t seem to do that in great works of literature generally. Perhaps it is because, after feldspars, it is the most abundant…

Homemade Brunch Beans

Posted on July 24, 2012July 13, 2020 by ShiverWriggle

By: Lash   Serves 2. These beans are inspired by the amazing homemade beans on toast that are served up at The Edinburgh Larder – an amazing Deli and Café, and my favourite place for brunch in Edinburgh! Unfortunately, I live around four-hundred miles away, so I decided to come up with my own version….

Yarrow

Posted on July 4, 2012July 13, 2020 by ShiverWriggle

By: everylittlething   Every so often we meet with a familiar part of our environment which we suppose has some personal attachment for us as individuals. Over the next year I am hoping to share some of my familiars. I can’t say why a flower, for example, rings the same bell as sharing a sentiment…

Buber

Posted on June 26, 2012July 13, 2020 by ShiverWriggle

By: Patrick   I just finished an old biography of the theologican and philosopher Martin Buber (Encounter with Martin Buber by Aubrey Hodes). One of my friends raves about Buber, so I thought I would give this book a go. Buber really was an extraordinary man concerned with love, relationships, dialogue, peace, politics, education and…

A Little Thought

Posted on June 6, 2012July 13, 2020 by ShiverWriggle

By: Patrick   A couple of years ago in a section of this website entitled ’21’, I wrote a list of 21 things that I would like to achieve in life. I would now only put 8 of them on the list were I to re-write it (which is not to say I have actively turned…

A Post

Posted on May 29, 2012July 13, 2020 by ShiverWriggle

By: Patrick   I call the bingo at a local community centre every other Tuesday. Always the same people sat in the same places having the same chats and telling the same jokes. I often wonder what it would be like to break the unspoken rules, to pause for an extra few seconds at one point,…

Yes Man 2?

Posted on May 22, 2012July 13, 2020 by ShiverWriggle

By: Patrick   Having recently found out about the 2008 movie, Yes Man, starring Jim Carrey in which he says ‘yes’ to all propositions that come his way, I started scheming about writing the script for the sequel to this movie with a view to improving upon the original. Having not managed to watch the…

A Little Piece

Posted on May 15, 2012July 13, 2020 by ShiverWriggle

By: Patrick   I rarely feel strong bonds to people I have never met, especially not those who were dead before I had even heard of them. Yet the other night, I got this lovely image in my head of the late comedian Bill Hicks and the late writer David Foster Wallace sat in a…

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