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Tag Archives: Blueboy
Blueboy – A Doggy Tale
In the middle of March, 2016, roughly a week after I’d fallen so ill and while I was still struggling badly in hospital, my wonderful dog Blueboy had to be put to sleep. I swore to myself that if it … Continue reading
The Shallows’ Heartfelt Chime
I do not feel as if I have the weight of the world on my shoulders, but I try to take a regular interest in current affairs, so it follows that there should be occasions when the news is not … Continue reading
Posted in Magic & the Supernatural
Tagged Arcadia, Blueboy, Et In Arcadia Ego, Music, Otherworld, Water
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Blueboy, Comes Quondam, Comesque Aeternus
Over the last few months, numerous people have urged me to get another dog and I readily accept that these things have been said to me with the best of intentions. I greatly appreciate these kind thoughts, because despite the … Continue reading
Posted in Current Affairs, Language, Magic & the Supernatural
Tagged A Doggy Tale, Blueboy, Elegy, Recovery
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Et In Arcadia Ego
My bad days are now so few and far between that I had come to believe that they were mercifully at an end. Today, however, was the fifth bad day in a row, more than at any point since I … Continue reading
Blueboy’s Stream
The day will come when I write an elegy for Blueboy, but that will have to be when I’m feeling a lot better and when I’ve returned to something resembling my old, former self. As well as writing a commemorative … Continue reading
Posted in Current Affairs, Magic & the Supernatural
Tagged Arcadia, Blueboy, Healing, Otherworld
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Let Sleeping Dogs Lie
I’ve loved fireworks and Bonfire Night ever since I was a child; the bigger, louder and more protracted the display, the better, while my propensity for these things is undoubtedly a reason why I enjoy Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture, V for … Continue reading
Posted in Dead Poets, Diary
Tagged 1812 Overture, Apocalypse Now, Blueboy, Bonfire Night, Catullus, Doggy dementia, Fireworks, V for Vendetta
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[There is] No Rest [for the Wicked Ones]
For as long as I can remember, I’ve been a prolific writer and correspondent, while I’ve been an equally enthusiastic conversationalist and raconteur who, in the tradition of Samuel Johnson, loves to “have out his talk”. All these aspects of … Continue reading
“We Live as We Dream – Alone”
From 1988 to 1991, I worked on a mediaeval jousting tournament that was based at Breamore, just outside Salisbury. I always worked with the touring unit, so my travels took me around the British Isles, Europe, Scandinavia and Russia in … Continue reading
Posted in Diary, Outer Space, Uncategorized
Tagged Blueboy, Dreams, Edgar Allan Poe, Mediaeval jousting tournament, Nightmares, Shakespeare, Sleep, Stonehenge, The Magic of the Mind
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Living with Doggy Dementia, or “Mad Dogs and Welshmen…”
The photo above shows me and my dog Blueboy, about seven years ago, when we were both in a lot better shape than we are now. I chose Blueboy from a litter at a farm on Salisbury Plain around twelve … Continue reading
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