Blog of Susannah Quinsee about life, work, parenthood and play
Another well known poem for today and one that I remember studying at school. I think I must have been given this for either my GCSEs or A-levels as I remember this being one of the first poems I studied Continue reading The Road Not Taken, Robert Frost
I have to confess that I do not really know the poetry of Mary Oliver. However, in her newsletter today, Adriene Mishler (from Yoga with Adriene) quoted one of her poems, ‘The Messenger‘, to reflect on belonging and taking time Continue reading Fall Song, Mary Oliver
This was the week that England went into Lockdown II: The Return, as I am lovingly call it. It started on Thursday – no Guy Fawkes parties around here, although plenty of fireworks. To be honest, thus far it does Continue reading Monday round-up: 9th November
Ah, well it is a bit of a cliche this poem, at least the first line, and feels amiss not to include this particularly given how wonderful and gorgeous autumn has been this week. Frosty and misty mornings of course Continue reading To Autumn, John Keats
Decided that doing a Friday round-up is confusing me as I keep missing out weekends and given that I seem now to always blog on a Monday that actually doing a Monday round-up would be much better, so that is Continue reading Monday round-up: 26th October
The week started with Mike’s birthday which ended up not quite being the celebration we had hoped due to a rather unfortunate blockage in our drains. Suffice to say that although we hadn’t planned much for Mike’s actual day, dealing Continue reading Friday round-up: 16th October