I'm off to Flanders next weekend for a night away with a good friend and am currently day dreaming about watching dawn break at the Menin Gate and night fall in the Silent Cities. These pilgrimages have become more and more important to me over the years and I'm reminded of a poem by one … Continue reading The King’s Pilgrimage
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‘How long is forever? Sometimes, just one second.’
Few may have heard of the village of Lyndhurst in Hampshire; and perhaps fewer still will have heard of one of its residents, Miss Alice Liddell. But many will surely know the book she was supposedly immortalised in - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. On a summers day in 1862, whilst accompanying Alice and her two … Continue reading ‘How long is forever? Sometimes, just one second.’