tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56650688611377610592024-03-13T16:40:43.226+00:00Vintage Script - Editor's blogWriter and Editor Emma Louise Oram's blog.
Find more info on me at www.emmalouiseoram.co.uk,and follow me on Twitter @vintage_script and Instagram @emmalouise_suffolkgal.Emma Louise Oramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08730716658321304187noreply@blogger.comBlogger60125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5665068861137761059.post-34575358888406611602023-04-27T08:45:00.002+01:002023-04-27T11:24:25.246+01:00<p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">The Hand of Fatima: my constant companion</span></b></span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Travel anywhere in the east — from Turkey through to
India — and you’ll be sure to come across the Hand of Fatima.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">This intriguing symbol is an ages-old insignia, an amulet,
protector and reminder for peoples of different faiths and no faith at all.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Its history is fascinating and multi-layered, weaving its
own tale of spirituality and commonality across a diverse geographical and
cultural landscape.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">It’s something I’ve fallen in love with and, like all good
things, want to share with my friends and readers.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">A multicultural symbol</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">This symbol is striking in both its beauty and multiculturalism.
“Fatima” refers to the daughter of the prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him),
the founder of Islam, yet is also linked to Miriam, Moses’ (peace be upon him) sister
and a significant figure in the Jewish faith, and Mary, mother of
Jesus (peace be upon him).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigrzauHXrYIb9UHlO2tMUAr03VTXz4uifXdUx1IweD2yyPFAxEm0iP5Ry6qHvmI8zkn9oRsDhLmEisZeKH1ytP0Gvvs_qMZXPagm8uw_LiAq_VFkjxmoH8MDcq9eXfX6FMn1UF_Xdl-mplPYzTniidc4ye4Hf3TzHYM5-1XsaXaJaxmDmT0lN6c6jo/s967/pexels-skylar-kang-6207387.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="967" data-original-width="640" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigrzauHXrYIb9UHlO2tMUAr03VTXz4uifXdUx1IweD2yyPFAxEm0iP5Ry6qHvmI8zkn9oRsDhLmEisZeKH1ytP0Gvvs_qMZXPagm8uw_LiAq_VFkjxmoH8MDcq9eXfX6FMn1UF_Xdl-mplPYzTniidc4ye4Hf3TzHYM5-1XsaXaJaxmDmT0lN6c6jo/s320/pexels-skylar-kang-6207387.jpg" width="212" /></a></div><i>Photo credit</i>: <a href="https://www.pexels.com/@skylar-kang/">Skylar
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The Hand of Fatima is also known as the Hamsa, a reference
to the number five in Arabic. Here in the Islamic world, the five fingers can represent
the five pillars of Islam: the declaration of faith, prayer, charity, fasting
and pilgrimage.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">And in Buddhism and Hinduism, I understand that the Hamsa
can represent the energy that flows between the chakras and is used as a tool
for meditation.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">But the symbol is believed to pre-date these and other religions and philosophies,
who later adopted it as a sign of their faith and values.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Scholars say the Hamsa originated in Mesopotamia (an area
now found in modern-day Iraq, Kuwait, Turkey and Syria) or in Carthage (in
present-day Tunisia). </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Wherever it originated, it is now known as a universal
symbol of protection — and yes, you do feel a shift in energy when you come
across it on some market stall or when you slip your Hand of Fatima ring upon
your finger.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Indeed, it is sometimes depicted with an eye in the centre
of the design, which is understood to ward off that other eye, the evil one.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">It can also signify good health, good fortune and good luck
— so what’s not to like?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Given its multifaith and multicultural background, I like
to think of the Hand of Fatima as a universal and unifying symbol — an olive
branch that transcends any barriers of faith and geography.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I also love that it’s connected with strong feminine energy
— something to be mindful of and celebrated every day!</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">In my travels in the Middle East, my Hand of Fatima ring
has been my constant companion, a reminder that when life gets challenging,
complicated, clouded by homesickness and grief, one need only return to those
five pillars for a sense of belonging and grounding.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">And in the high-energy, high-maintenance environs I find myself
in, I’m amused by how often my ring, bought for just a few dirhams in a local
market, is admired.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQPCC8s_iefxv24DliE152cVHJlGecUt0jXjNXll0zoD0rXR2ZRQoV5aES4c1ePGsQcBChr3iARobSSRSlJeIIhI1jV_gq_vvIOPhUsZG7yo4wA1TFajlwrTC40vbkv8vA0lWMNsJadP_vsdtadKGLnAvJh7_FYOkSD4V32VfaSfQoauUs8Bb5PZEb/s4608/20230427_104200.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4608" data-original-width="3456" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQPCC8s_iefxv24DliE152cVHJlGecUt0jXjNXll0zoD0rXR2ZRQoV5aES4c1ePGsQcBChr3iARobSSRSlJeIIhI1jV_gq_vvIOPhUsZG7yo4wA1TFajlwrTC40vbkv8vA0lWMNsJadP_vsdtadKGLnAvJh7_FYOkSD4V32VfaSfQoauUs8Bb5PZEb/s320/20230427_104200.jpg" width="240" /></a></div> <p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">What I also love about this symbol is that it translates
right across to the other half of my life in rural East Anglia. Somehow my Hand
of Fatima ring looks just right nestled amongst the roses, resting on a saucer,
shining in the benign Suffolk light.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I wonder sometimes too if my paternal grandparents shared
my love for this beautiful emblem. Would my grandmother Sarah, born and bred in
Kolkata, have worn such a ring? </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">And surely my grandfather Alfred would have been familiar with
the Hand of Fatima, having travelled a long way for a lad from Worcester to India,
Egypt and Mesopotamia in his military and civilian careers.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">A friend and supporter</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">So the Hand of Fatima, adopted and adapted by so many
people from all over the world, brings together past and present, near and far,
representing good vibes only, whichever faith or culture is yours.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">It’s there to embrace as your very own personal symbol, a
friend and supporter to inspire, comfort and guide you in these changing and
sometimes bewildering times.</span></p>
<p></p>Emma Louise Oramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08730716658321304187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5665068861137761059.post-34060639747895114352019-10-31T07:07:00.000+00:002019-10-31T07:07:02.581+00:00We’re going on a ghost hunt…<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">What could be more appropriate on Hallowe’en than a tale of
a haunted house, where the mysterious scent of cigar smoke and the hint of a
disgruntled former resident were said to permeate its corridors?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This was Rokesle, a Georgian rectory just inside Kent,
which my grandparents Ethel and Bill bought in the 1950s when it was a decaying
and gloomy shadow of its former self.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">An experienced builder, the ever-practical Bill set about restoring
it and making it habitable. It became a vibrant family home to Ethel, Bill and
my mother, Pat, and later my dad, my siblings and myself.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">While Bill was the down-to-earth sort, Ethel and Pat were
of a more romantic disposition and were convinced that the former rector was
still an occupant in spirit form. They were certain that they had caught the
strong perfume of his cigar smoke, believing that he was hanging around to
supervise the restoration works.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">His portrait now hangs in my current sitting room, keeping
a disapproving eye on things. Nevertheless, I can’t help but feel he still lends
some kind of protection and guardianship to his adoptive family.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Days at Rokesle were made for relaxing on the lawn...</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The only spooky aspect of Rokesle that I recall was an
incident late one night when I woke to police officers searching our garden
with torches.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">The next morning I overheard my mum tell my grandmother
that she had called them after a young woman had appeared hammering on the door
saying she had been chased down the lane by someone or something, then had run
off in a state of terrorised panic. The police officers did not find her in our
garden that night.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I only remember Rokesle as a warm and peaceful place, full
of the joy and family affection that childhoods should be made of. I know it
was with deep regret that my mother left there in 1979, and if anyone’s spirit
is hanging around there today it will be hers – tending her roses and looking
out for the badgers that would emerge after dark.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">A place of joy and family affection</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So convinced were Ethel and Pat that the house was haunted
that they invited a reporter from the now-defunct Kentish Times to spend a
night. Here is the subsequent report – inconclusive but leaving enough doubt to
entertain the possibility that the supernatural is real.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">“There are more things in heaven…than are dreamt of in our
philosophy.” Repeating this quotation from Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” to myself, I
went off on a ghost hunt this week. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">I was investigating some ghostly rumours about the former
Rectory of Foots Cray. The house in Rectory-lane, renamed Rokesle after
original spelling for Ruxley, is now occupied by Mr. and Mrs. W. Roberts and
their daughter Patricia. They very kindly invited me to stay overnight to see
if I would meet their ethereal visitor.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Although I was sceptical on the whole question of ghosts, I
tried to keep an open mind on this particular spirit. Mrs. Roberts and Patricia
seemed firmly convinced that there is, or was, a ghost attached to the house.
Mrs. Roberts’ private theory on the phenomenon is that the ghost was a former
Rector who had a deep affection for the Rectory. His spirit used to frequent
the house because the building was in a run-down condition and he was unhappy
about it, but now that it has been renovated he comes less often.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Former occupants of the house are reported to have seen the ghost, but I could
get no denial or confirmation from them. Mrs. Roberts and Patricia have both
smelled a strong odour of cigar smoke, not attributable to any earthly source,
in the garden, and one bedroom in a part of the house reputed to be 200 years
old, is for no apparent reason, so cold that Mr. and Mrs. Roberts could not
sleep there and had to move to another bedroom.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">It was against this background that I began my lonely vigil
soon after 11 on Friday night. I settled down in the bedroom, which, although
it had had the sun on it all day, remained cold. I reluctantly switched the
light off, but kept the switch close at hand. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Brilliant moonlight streamed through the windows, making
deep shadows and bright highlights. The passage and stairs through the open
doorway (if the ghost was to appear I did not want to hinder his entrance)
looked black and forbidding.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Up the stairs floated the loud sounds of two antique clocks
in the hall. Suddenly there was a loud knock and some quick scrapings. And with
the first chime of the bewitching hour, I realised, not without relief, that
the noise had been the old striking mechanism going into action.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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So 12 was here. If anything ghostly was going to happen, this was the
traditional time for it. I opened the door a bit wider and fearfully yet
eagerly concentrated on the darkness outside the room. Then, with my heart
palpitating, I heard a measured creaking as if somebody, or something, was
coming up the stairs. It was the second clock’s mechanism preparing to strike a
few minutes after the other.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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out at the extensive garden. Here the moonlight played monstrous tricks and the
whole garden looked peopled with weird beings. The ridiculousness of this acted
like a dose of cold water to my overworked imagination and I reminded myself
that I did not believe in ghosts. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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just after one, I reasoned all supernatural implications away. It was about
1.15 when the bump came again. Not a loud, but still a decisive, sort of bump.
I investigated and found – nothing. Not even something that could logically
have made the noise, which made it a bit eerie.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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the end of room moonlight and the beginning of passage darkness, started to
waver and form the shape of a face. I ignored it and looked away. When I looked
back it was still there. I got up and walked towards it and found it was the
light from a bicycle wobbling up the lane.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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things I could not explain and sometimes by things half explained. Gradually
the light faded as the moon set in a rose-coloured glow and my long vigil came
to an end. I left Rokesle in the morning convinced that I had not seen a ghost,
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<br />Emma Louise Oramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08730716658321304187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5665068861137761059.post-20747517336157922462018-09-24T09:37:00.000+01:002018-09-24T09:37:01.974+01:00Alive at Midday<br />
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spite of the white heat, dozens of finches, some dull, brown bird, parakeets
and squawking myna birds flit about with vigour. It’s midday and they are so
alive.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The scene is gaudy. Hot pink, aquamarine and scarlet.
In a surprise swoop, the dullest birds opens its wings and skims the blue
water, revealing a myriad of turquoise and green tones on its underside. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the base layer for some intricate drawing. Spirals, patterns, dimensions within
dimensions - impossible constructions. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the other-worldly creatures lurk. I daren’t peer behind the thick green leaves.
I’m not one to take fright but it’s the just that these skulking things have a
habit of shifting and shaping just to startle you. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><i>Inspired by the work of <a href="https://www.mcescher.com/">M.C. Escher</a>.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />Emma Louise Oramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08730716658321304187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5665068861137761059.post-26352455699238701342018-07-03T20:04:00.001+01:002018-07-03T20:05:15.761+01:00Greenwich, Me and Time<span style="font-family: "bookman old style", serif; font-size: 12pt;">The Royal Borough of Greenwich is perhaps best-known
for its naval history, its smart Georgian and Victorian architecture and
lending its name to Greenwich Mean Time. It encompasses a number of
lesser-known districts, the names of which are so familiar to me, yet visiting
them feels like something of an adventure, being so different from East Anglia
where I have spent much of my life.</span><br />
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Greenwich area from at least the early nineteenth century, around Woolwich,
Eltham, New Eltham and Lee and neighbouring Lewisham. Research in the censuses
has revealed that my ancestors were simple folk, described as ‘coachman’,
‘groom’, ‘laundry wash’, ‘grocer’ and even ‘prisoner’.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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returned to Greenwich after a long absence. There was a homely feel as we made
our way up Well Hall Road in Eltham. Arts and Crafts style houses lined our
route, with many well-tended, rose-filled gardens. If it weren’t for the South
Circular Road, you could imagine yourself in the depths of some very pretty,
very English village. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Lawrence’s murder in 1993. The spirits of my grandparents were not far as I
couldn’t help but wonder what they would have thought of this sad infamy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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set on the slopes of Shooter’s Hill - one of the highest points in London. Here
we spent a good hour visiting relatives’ graves and exploring the site. I had
forgotten about the parakeets that are peculiar to south-east London, which I
remember from our former garden in Kent. They darted about shrieking to one another,
too quick to be captured on camera.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to see Heroes’ Corner commemorating World War I burials, and to take in the
panoramic view of London. It is a good place for reflection.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style" , serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I wondered what my ancestors would have made of my
life. Having recently sifted through boxes and boxes of family memorabilia and
photos, and through censuses and other records, I feel I can piece together a
little of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">their</i> lives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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great-grandfather Frank starting school in nearby Lewisham in 1883. His parents
must have had high hopes for him. Sadly he died aged only 33, leaving behind a
young family. A poignant note that his wife, Selina, wrote their daughter, my
grandmother Ethel, later in life suggests it was a struggle after Frank’s death:
“…you worked with me all your young days, when you ought to have been playing”.
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Bill stayed close to the area where they both grew up, although World War Two
enforced a separation when Ethel and my mother Pat were evacuated to Wales for
a period. Handwritten letters between Ethel and Bill tell of Bill’s duties as
an air raid warden, and are surprisingly passionate, considering that Bill was known
as a taciturn man. Though I was only six when he died, I have clear memories of
him not saying a lot but pottering about fixing things, ensuring that doors
were locked and padlocks secured, usually with a ciggie at the corner of his
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1950s to Foots Cray, Kent – not far away but something of a step up for them as
they purchased a decaying Georgian rectory which Bill, a builder, restored to
an idyllic home. It makes me happy to think how thrilled they would have been
to bring their new home to life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Tracing their footsteps in South London makes me hyper aware of their history,
but I don’t need to go far to be reminded of them - I’m surrounded by their
knick-knacks stuffed in display cabinets – their bridge trophies, a few defunct
cigarette lighters dotted about here and there, bits of china that are worthless
but too precious to throw or give away. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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who comes to me, making time stand still. Always smiling, telling me to get my
coat on and hurry up and put some lipstick on as well during a difficult house
move or “Don’t worry, it’ll all turn out alright in the end”. And it did. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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while car horns and shouts from the street below are the threads of the tapestry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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ill-equipped but he channels our guardian angels and is more powerful than you
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Emma Louise Oramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08730716658321304187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5665068861137761059.post-36961569655044425422017-11-12T11:55:00.000+00:002017-11-12T15:39:03.043+00:00A photo blog for Remembrance...<div style="background: white; margin-bottom: 4.5pt; margin-left: 0cm; margin-right: 0cm; margin-top: 0cm;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "bookman old style", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Although my father Ronald's military career was brief, it was dazzling. He was enlisted into the Royal Artillery in 1940, aged 22, was commissioned in 1941 and promoted to Major, acting up as Lieutenant-Colonel towards the end of his time. At one time he was the youngest major in the Royal Artillery. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Ronald served in the Western Desert Campaign under Field-Marshall Montgomery, at one point serving as a junior staff officer for him. He sustained a fractured pelvis in September 1943 resulting in lifelong osteoarthritis.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">"The 31st Field Regt. R.A. was in the area [Jerusalem] for mountain warfare training and I was a passenger in a vehicle which overturned causing the fracture of the pelvis, other minor injuries and shock," he wrote. All other occupants of the vehicle were killed. He spent months in military hospitals in Jerusalem and Sarafand. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">He was awarded the 1939-1945 Star, the 1939-1945 George VI Medal, the Africa Star and the Defence Medal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">At the end of the war he went to staff college in Woolwich, and it was his intention to stay in the army after the war. He was going to be posted to India, but his second child was due and he chose to leave the army to be with his wife and children. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "bookman old style" , serif;"><i>Heliopolis, September 1942. Ronald wrote on the back: "It's all the fault of the sandwich in my R. hand!!"</i></span></div>
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high street of our village at dusk, just before the curtains are pulled close,
to catch a glimpse of others’ inside worlds. At this time of year the perfume
of woodsmoke and the nip in the air add to the atmosphere. You feel almost as
if you could step back in time into those timber-framed dwellings, while the
witchy weathervanes and the swirls of pargetting suggest that the past and its
mysteries are merely a step away.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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peer into the pastel-painted snugs of neighbours is deceptive. Not so long ago,
this part of Suffolk was a hotbed of suspicion and persecution, and that witch
atop the weathervane serves as a reminder of dangerous times.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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series of witch trials took place a few miles away in Bury St Edmunds. The most
famous was that of 1645, overseen by Matthew Hopkins, the Witchfinder
General.18 people – 16 women and two men – were executed in one day as a
result. And this was only one of 124 witch trials that took place in Suffolk
that same year… <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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fear of witches can be seen quite clearly today. In one old farmhouse, just
down the road from where I type, marks made from candle flames can still be
seen upstairs, where they were believed to ward off evil or protect against a
possessed member of the household. The ‘possessed’ may simply have been a
sleepwalker, the marks’ proximity to bedrooms suggesting so. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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placed in the walls of newly-built homes centuries ago to ward off evil - are a
regular feature here too – one has been hanging up in the bar of The Nutshell
pub in Bury St Edmunds for years, and you can come face to face with Rameses at
the Guildhall in Lavenham. Bottles and shoes would also be placed strategically
to protect against witches.</span></div>
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though. Our village was once home to a priory of Augustinian canons, founded in
1100. The remains of the priory church and tomb slabs can be seen today, in the
lawn of what is now a private house. It may be spooky to think of the goings-on
900 or more years ago, but I have only ever felt a surge of positive
benevolence in the vicinity of the building.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the Order of the Holy Cross of Welnetham, the Crutched Friars, I was met by a
shimmering mass of energy, almost – but not quite – in human form one dark October
evening when I opened my front door. Again, there was no feeling of
malevolence, it was just like a friend popping round to say hello, or beware,
or may peace be upon you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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village with the imprints of my forebears, even those accused of witchcraft,
the monks, the Roman soldiers who once stood guard on the corner there, and the
Anglo Saxons who left burial urns and a fine gold cross to mark their place in
history. They were friendly folk, I’m sure. What I find more infinitely more chilling
are the witchfinders and the self-proclaimed mark makers and the finger
pointers, who sought persecution and terrorised a peaceful place.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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to start with the tidying away of things? There are still piles of mainly
clothes to be sorted through of people who have moved on or grown too lanky. A
selection of my baby clothes from the seventies in exotic materials such as
bri-nylon, either in faded whites or creams or in startling floral patterns,
purple and blue. These were handed on to my daughter, and now have been washed
and ironed and folded in a particular way and secreted in a box. But it’s not
conclusive, though it’s meant to be a neat tying up of ends, and during the act
I find myself wondering if a granddaughter of mine, God willing, will wear
them, and will they seem ridiculously old-fashioned by then?</span><br />
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wardrobe because I don’t know what to do with them. I have neatly coiled them
and put them in a Christmas cake tin, because that is what seems appropriate
and dignified – don’t ask me why.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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trying to collect my mother’s handwritten notes hidden about the house and in
the pages of books but it’s like trying to capture darting butterflies in an
unwieldy net. A page fell out of a map the other day: ‘There’s a dog sanctuary
at STOWMARKET can can [sic] see if they advertise?’, and my handwritten
directions on the back, bearing right and bearing left all over Suffolk. It is now on display on my chest of drawers,
propped up over a baby picture of my son. There is no logic to these gestures,
other than they spark a small chemical reaction inside the heart – you believe
you are dignifying the memory of a loved one and you feel better and your step
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soul and enable us in part to make sense of what we believe to be too short a
time here. There was a concentration of
thought and emotion and a reverent hush before the service, except in the row
behind me where an animated pair pointed out so-and-so and someone else, and murmured
of the new ‘lady vicar’. It brought a smile to my face. We are all the same –
curious and gossipy but capable of comfort and empathy for those who have lost.
Afterwards the congregation piled out of the church and lined up outside, and
slyly looked to see whether that couple was still going strong and if someone
had aged well, and whether that old flame lived up to the memories.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">And so I continue with my sorting – which I know will never
end – and the processing of the memories and the layers of joy, questioning and
healing that have slipped in between the tissue paper.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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around: from the graves of mighty warriors to the impressions of once solid
human flesh deep in the sandy soil. And, as we walk, more evidence of death and
decay—the torn, spiky remains of a hedgehog and its entrails like grey string
discarded by the path, a skull complete with maggot or caterpillar (which made
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resting place for Anglo-Saxon warriors and kings—and the treasure they took
with them to the grave—is a special place, mystical and full of stories to be
told. But the further you explore, the more you discover that it is not so much
a place of death but a vibrant backdrop to the story of a people considered the
founders of the English nation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The 255-acre estate in east
Suffolk offers peaceful walks among woodland and sandy heath punctuated by pine
trees, with views to the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>River Deben and
Woodbridge…and the discovery of the famous burial mounds that lay unprobed for
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secrets been revealed. They lay undisturbed for almost 1,400 years until Edith
Pretty, the then owner of the estate, instigated an archaeological
investigation of the mounds that she could see as she looked out of her windows
at Tranmer House (at that time Sutton Hoo House). It is said that she was
inspired by supernatural visions of a funeral procession amongst the mounds and
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The 1939 excavation by Harold John Phillips, via Wikimedia Commons</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">As Britain declared war on
Germany in September 1939, the site at Sutton Hoo was covered over, and the
treasures, donated by Edith Pretty to the British Museum, spent the war years
stored in the London Underground.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Later excavations revealed more,
including a warrior buried with his horse and the macabre remains of
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">A mixture of the original and
replica treasures are now on view at Sutton Hoo’s Exhibition Hall, while the
iconic helmet and other items can be seen at the British Museum.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">It turned out to be the richest
burial chamber ever found in Britain, revealing previously unknown details
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">These warrior-farmers were
skilled in many areas – as the quality of the treasure’s craftsmanship testifies.
We also know that they enjoyed entertainment such as dice and board games, lyre
music and storytelling, an essential part of passing on their history and
culture as the Anglo-Saxons were not at this time writing down their history.
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years after the end of the oral tradition, many aspects had been lost. Of
course, one such story that has survived from this era is the famous <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Beowulf</i>, an epic poem written between
the eighth and early eleventh centuries. Perhaps we can draw some parallels
between the treatment of a Danish king after death as described in Seamus
Heaney’s 2000 translation and the discovery at Sutton Hoo: </span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">A ring-whorled prow rode into the harbour,<br />
ice-clad, outbound, a craft for a prince.<br />
They stretched their beloved lord in his boat,<br />
laid out by the mast, amidships,<br />
the great ring-giver. Far-fetched treasures<br />
were piled upon him, and precious gear.<br />
I never heard before of a ship so well furbished<br />
with battle tackle, bladed weapons<br />
and coats of mail. The massed treasure<br />
was loaded on top of him: it would travel far<br />
on out into the ocean’s sway.<br />
They decked his body no less bountifully<br />
with offerings than those first ones did<br />
who cast him away when he was a child<br />
and launched him alone out over the waves.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The treasures themselves tell
their own story: gold buckles, jewelled and enamelled clasps and fittings, a
gold, garnet and enamelled purse lid, the helmet—all crafted to the highest
standards and with exquisite detail. Some of the treasure was found to have
originated from as far afield as France, the eastern Mediterranean and the
Middle East, demonstrating the reach of Anglo-Saxon connections. There’s a
tendency for us modern folk to think of our forebears as less sophisticated
than us, but I wonder if the poetry and the treasures alone say otherwise.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">A visit to this atmospheric site offers
a glimpse into their mysterious world and conveys a sense of the debt we owe to
the Anglo-Saxons for the many aspects of everyday life they established: language and literature, laws and place names, even the names of our days of
the week. And at this time of year, as the dimmer light sets the scene for
contemplation and All Hallows’ Eve draws near, you may even
catch glimpses of those warriors guarding the mounds and the flash of golden
treasure against the pewter sky…</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">See the <a href="http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/sutton-hoo/">National Trust Sutton Hoo website</a> for more information.</span></i></div>
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Emma Louise Oramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08730716658321304187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5665068861137761059.post-72275577204210031032015-08-22T22:11:00.001+01:002015-08-23T11:24:10.445+01:00The Promise<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">Warm, busy days accentuate the longing for the soon-to-come
cool nights. Colours are bright and sharp and contrast with the clear sky
today, and I’m not short of company and affection. But I’ve secretly noted the
discarded nest, the plumping berries and the halo of brown around the edges of
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span>Emma Louise Oramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08730716658321304187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5665068861137761059.post-69115867089905823272015-06-01T22:50:00.000+01:002015-06-01T23:38:08.225+01:00My cousin the Captain and the HMS Thetis tragedy<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<![endif]--><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Today marks the anniversary of the Royal Navy’s worst
peacetime submarine disaster—the sinking of HMS Thetis in Liverpool Bay with the
loss of 99 men at the time of the disaster, and one later.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Thetis was built by Cammell Laird at Birkenhead. During sea
trials on 1 June 1939, she sank suddenly to the seabed on her first dive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">My connection with the disaster is that my father’s cousin,
Captain Harry “Joe” Oram, was one of only four survivors.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <i>Captain Oram</i></span></div>
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recounted how the first sign of trouble was the sounding of the warning bell,
then a terrible shudder was felt, and the submarine’s passengers were thrown
forward into a heap. It was the idea of Commander Bolus, commander of the ship,
for someone to attempt to leave through the escape chamber, carrying directions
to the disaster which would be found even if he drowned, though he warned that
the chances of survival were slim. “Capt. Oram was first to call out, ‘I’ll
go,’” Shaw recalled. Six more men, including Shaw, volunteered. “Captain Oram
insisted on going first,” he continued. “He got through all right. But the next
three men died miserably in the chamber, and I watched while their bodies were
released one after the other.”</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"> </span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; line-height: 115%;"></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The submarine's crowded conditions - she was carrying twice as many men as she was designed for - meant that the air inside would not have lasted long enough to save the passengers, who were poisoned by the carbon dioxide from their own breath.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A memorial marking the tragedy was unveiled a year ago today
at the River Walkway, Birkenhead, and metal plaques, one for each victim of the
disaster, can be seen in the clock tower of Birkenhead Priory, St Mary’s Gate,
Birkenhead. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The submarine was raised and salvaged, and re-commissioned
as HMS Thunderbolt, but sunk off Sicily in 1943…with the loss of another 99
men.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Sadly, I never met my
cousin the Captain, though I recall my father mentioning the Thetis tragedy and
his cousin’s connections with it many years ago. By all accounts, he was a
survivor, who died in his 90s in 1986. His biography <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Rogue’s Yarn. The Sea-Going Life of Captain H. K. ‘Joe’ Oram</i> is
published by Pen and Sword Books.</span><br />
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Emma Louise Oramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08730716658321304187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5665068861137761059.post-91371967611744454922015-05-07T06:49:00.002+01:002015-05-07T06:51:23.253+01:00Read all about it!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">I’ve got a new
website, bringing together information on all my writing projects and <i>Vintage Script </i>magazine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: 115%;">Read it all about it at: <a href="http://www.emmalouiseoram.co.uk/">www.emmalouiseoram.co.uk</a></span>Emma Louise Oramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08730716658321304187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5665068861137761059.post-38241406602197534502015-04-21T23:41:00.000+01:002015-04-21T23:41:24.949+01:00Oh, to be in England...<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Now that April’s there</span></i><br />
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And whoever wakes in England<br />
Sees, some morning, unaware,<br />
That the lowest boughs and the brushwood sheaf<br />
Round the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf,<br />
While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough<br />
In England—now!<br /><br />
</span></i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">From <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Home Thoughts From Abroad</i> by Robert
Browning</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Already the
daffodils are past, and spring is about to peak. The buds are growing fat on
the trees and the uppermost lilacs—the wanton things!—allow a peek of their
first flowers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">It’s now
becoming harder to keep track of the number and variety of birds in the garden.
And hovering above the hedgerows are the sparrowhawks, so poised as they beat
their wings. Nothing epitomises Suffolk more to me than these elegant birds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">The field
opposite has been sown with oilseed rape, now in full, glorious, golden bloom.
I feel like we have entered some kind of gentle paradise.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">This evening, a
last check out of the window reveals a crescent moon low on the north-west
horizon, offset by a dazzling Venus. It’s not so late, but everyone is asleep.
Now is a good time to be alive.</span></div>
Emma Louise Oramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08730716658321304187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5665068861137761059.post-25015429285075825882015-02-24T22:06:00.000+00:002015-02-25T07:36:32.921+00:00Witches, Horses and an Abundance of Barley: A Brief History of Great Barton<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</xml><![endif]--><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Great Barton, a village to the north-east of Bury St
Edmunds, Suffolk, has an understated charm. There are some pretty corners of
arable land, a handful of historic houses, with the rest mainly dating from the
1950s onwards. Less visible are the secrets and little-known facts about the
village, handed down by word-of-mouth or by serendipity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Although I have lived here for almost 30 years, I am certain
there are still more discoveries to make. A walk on a winter’s afternoon with
an agreeable companion is the finest way to renew my acquaintance with the
stories I know, and find new surprises.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The first known settlement here was in the Saxon era, when
Great Barton was known as Bertune, a reference to the abundant production of
barley. Circa 950 AD the monastery at Bury St Edmunds took over the land here,
until the dissolution in 1539 when it passed to the Crown, and later the Audley
family. A Robert Audley was responsible for building Barton Hall in 1572, and
much of the current village stands on the hall’s former parkland. Sadly, the
hall burnt down in January 1914.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">The Bunburys were the last
residents of the hall, which was owned by their family from 1746 until its
demise. Sir Thomas Charles Bunbury was famous for owning the racehorse Diomed,
winner of the first Derby held in 1780, while his nephew, Sir Henry Edward
Bunbury, informed Napoleon of his exile to Corsica following his defeat at
Waterloo. He also added to the estate, providing the cottages in The Street,
almshouses and the pub which still stands, The Bunbury Arms.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">If you’re walking round the village you’ll find it easy to
trace the boundary of the estate, as the four gatehouses survive, while several
road and house names reveal their original purpose. Just a trace of the
original hall remains, tucked away down a private road (The Park), including
the old forge, which, though already derelict, was inhabited some 20 years ago
by an elderly gentleman. I believe his mother used to work at the hall many
years previously.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Carry on down The Park, cross the A143 and walk up Church
Road. About half-way to the church, on the right, you will find a small, deep pond
where many years ago, according to Winifred Mills, late of this parish, a coach
and horses fell in, and they are said to haunt the place ever since,
a-clatterin’ up and down that road of a stormy night. Winifred, grandmother of
one my dearest friends, was born in 1906 in nearby Fornham St Martin, and later
settled in Great Barton. She was a good ol’ Suffolk gal, the daughter and wife
of a gamekeeper, always ready with a spooky tale or two about the village or
about the houses she worked in during her younger years. I can hear her now,
chastising me: ‘You got a ’tater in your stockin’, Emma!’. Bless her Suffolk
heart.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Winifred now rests in the graveyard at the Church of the
Holy Innocents, named after King Herod’s slaughter of babies in Bethlehem. It’s
a peaceful spot, perfect for a contemplative break. You can find <a href="http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/gbarton.htm">an informative review</a> of Holy Innocents and photos by Simon Knott on the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Suffolk Churches</i> website.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The Church of the Holy Innocents</span></i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></i></span></div>
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after the visit to the church, you follow the road to the right, you will see a
track that cuts through a field and crosses the A143 which in olden days was
the main road to and from Norwich. I imagine in days gone by it would be
heaving with traffic going about their business, but it is a tranquil (and
muddy) walk now that takes you all the way through Barton Stud on the other
side of the main road.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The old Norwich Road</span></i></div>
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stud was bought by the Broughton brothers—Huttleston and Henry—in 1925, who
went on to purchase the wonderful <a href="http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/anglesey-abbey/">Anglesey Abbey</a> the following year. After a meandering
walk through the stud, the track comes out onto Fornham Road. Turn right and
you can follow this road along for a half a mile or so back into the village,
and veer right into The Avenue. Here, every year on the eve of Derby Day, just
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">We have covered just a fraction of the village today…our
walk doesn’t cover all of the secrets and stories I have come to learn over the
years. I haven’t yet mentioned that somewhere within this parish there remain
strange hierogylphs to ward off evil in one of the
village’s oldest houses. Timothy Easton’s excellent article <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Candle Powers</i> explains this queer tale
of the effort to deflect sorcery or possession. In the mid-seventeenth century,
not long after the East Anglian witch hunt, strange marks were burned on the
walls and ceiling of this house, and even the name of the subject
of this torment, a Sarah Sugate. Mr Easton explains that she survived this
episode of mischief, for she left the house and married, and one assumes went
on to live a normal life. How strange this practice seemed to me, when I first
heard of it, only to reflect that sentiments change little over the years.
Doesn’t anyone with faith ask for protection against ‘conjuring witches…the
mischief of the night when she spreads her darkness’? I am not so different to
my predecessor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Travelling a little northwards into the outer reaches of
Livermere Road and you will pass a few old farmhouses and cottages until you
reach great stretches of agricultural land. Venture further into the parish of
Great Livermere, and you will be in the territory of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._R._James">M. R. James</a>—the learned
writer of spooky tales, many inspired by the flat, still landscape of his home
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">That’s a journey for another day. Now, we turn the corner to
home, and see the tractor and its trailer pull into the field and the flat-capped
men jump out. They disperse across the field. The spaniels follow them,
sticking to their heels. Before long, calls and shrieks rise up and there’s a
flurry of feathers and a low-flying pheasant streaks past us, and another, and
another. A few shots and a flash of orange flags and we turn away, homewards.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Inside it’s warm and noisy, coats are flung anywhere but
their peg. At sunset I escape upstairs to look out of the window and catch the
last minutes of the day. The remnants of snow have settled in the furrows in
the field opposite. There are the men and the dogs and their sport, not
deterred by the failing light. The long, flat expanse of land is only stopped
by a row of trees, a strip of dusky pink above. It’s a still evening; only the
clouds move across the sky above. Time to draw the curtains now and wait for
darkness, for the show of the moon and the bright stars under the same canopy
that was Sarah’s, 350 years ago.</span></div>
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<![endif]--><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">While rummaging around at work recently, I happened upon a
stack of pages taken from interior design magazines from the mid-1930s, I
believe. Instantly, they made my heart sing. They are both cosy and optimistic,
and I just love the cheerful, clean designs and the feel-good wording
accompanying them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The pages epitomise the buoyance and optimism of the ’30s, once
the economy had recovered from the depression of the early years of the decade.
A boom in housebuilding—3 million houses were built during the 1930s in Britain—was
accompanied by a shift to home-ownership as mortgages became easier to obtain
and afford.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A suburban house built at this time would be modest but a
step-up from living in a city flat. Typically, it would comprise two reception
rooms downstairs, and upstairs two main bedrooms and a box room, as well as a
kitchen and indoor bathroom. Although the designs were pretty uniform, subtle
differences in the half-timbering or gables lent each house its uniqueness. And
while most of the new houses were built on the outskirts of town where land was
available, the styles would be reminiscent of country cottages, inspiring some
of the delightfully chintzy interiors.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As ordinary folk found themselves homeowners for the first
time, so their expectations rose: homebuyers now demanded internal bathrooms and
loos, and embraced new technology and ideas such as the wireless and design
ideas, built-in wardrobes and serving hatches, and thus the need for these
wonderful interior design magazines.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I think my favourite picture from this collection would be
the sitting room/study with the title <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A
COLOURED TELEPHONE Is the Keynote of This Room</i>. Of course, it seems so
quaint to us now to design a room around a telephone, but you can’t help but
adore the bold red of the telephone sitting alongside the glorious, busy
fabric.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The sitting room <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Where
Friendship Would Prosper</i>, I suppose, is a little more traditional, but
charming nonetheless with the matching fabric and its seating arrangement
around the fireplace.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The kitchen I adore for its simplicity and thoughtful
design. It must have seemed pretty cutting-edge for its serving hatch and
well-planned built-in cupboard, and I think its elegance puts it above
modern-day kitchens, in their clichéd fussiness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Built-in cupboards again in the attic bedroom give it an
edge, while the matching fabric and knick-knacks create a welcome cosiness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The bathroom—a far cry from the days of a tin bath in front
of the range and an outside privie—is revealing. It must have seemed the height
of luxury, although I suppose of all the illustrations here, it may seem the
most quaint to modern eyes used to mixer taps and power showers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Even so, there is something so forward-looking about all of
these designs, produced with comfort and a fresh attractiveness at their heart.
Of course, we now know that within just a few years the clouds of war would
threaten these cosy scenes, and that design was soon to be pared down to match
the availability of materials and resources. But I love these designs for what
they are—an expression of hope for a more settled time, and a future where
friendship would indeed prosper.</span></div>
Emma Louise Oramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08730716658321304187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5665068861137761059.post-112792590493394902014-12-09T21:15:00.000+00:002014-12-09T21:15:19.966+00:00One Night In Suffolk<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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crisp air says it is so. It is a time for rest and reflection, for keeping
secrets in: even a night like this, sharp and lit by a full moon, reveals
little. Weird shadows—witches’ fingers—are cast in the garden, the surroundings
noiseless save for the crack of ice underfoot. I know there are eyes watching
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link between two worlds. Pheasants make themselves at home here: they cross
between field and lawn happily, making no distinction between the two. The
flashes of chestnut, red and green are a welcome sight. Hares streak across the
field. Weird, rangy animals, it’s not hard to see why they were feared in times
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">I'm on sabbatical...taking a
break from publishing <em><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Vintage
Script</span></em> for a little while. I plan to resume my blog in the spring,
and will post updates about future editions here and on the main <em><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><a href="http://www.vintagescript.co.uk/">Vintage Script</a></span></em> website. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Emma Louise Oramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08730716658321304187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5665068861137761059.post-50959003725685138402013-11-06T14:36:00.000+00:002013-11-06T21:20:29.480+00:00Autumn Tales of Melancholy and Hope<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Autumn was made for melancholy reflection, with a nod to
hope and the eventual return of spring. What better way, then, to spend a grey
November afternoon than considering the selection of stories and articles on
offer in this season’s edition of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Vintage
Script</i>?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Blue
Hat For A Blue Day<br />
Bernie Deehan<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Bernie
takes us on a trip round 1950s Soho where we meet larger-than-life characters
Holloway Harry, Frida—in her ‘big fur coat and red heels’—and the adored Betsy.
Bernie’s clever touch blends humour with poignancy, as he describes a society
on the cusp between two worlds—the memories of war not so far away, and the
beckoning of the new world of beboppers and skiffle kids. Bernie’s tale is a
proper story that’s also a snapshot in time of a bygone era, and described so
skilfully that you’re breathing in the hot, smoky atmosphere of those Soho jazz
clubs…</span></div>
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From The Crypt<br />
Kirsty Ferry<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Kirsty—mistress
of the Gothic—shows us her dark side in this enthralling account of the
unveiling of the Belzoni Sarcophagus by Sir John Soane in 1825. Not only does
Kirsty set the scene with her description of the flickering light in the Crypt
and the funerary paraphernalia, she also explains Soane’s long-held fascination
with death, against a backdrop of the Romantic movement of the day. Get yourself
down to Whitby, Kirsty!</span></div>
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Robin<br />
Nick Brazil<br />
</span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The Robin</span></i><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"> was
inspired by a letter from D. H. Lawrence published many years after his death
describing the village in Oxfordshire where the story is set—it’s also where
Nick lives. Nick has a photographer’s eye, you can tell, as he sprinkles the
story with sharp visual details—the robin scratching at the ground for food,
the silhouette of a destroyer in flames seen from a window—which entice you to
read more.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">Digging Up The Family: The 1918 Influenza Pandemic<br />
Gill Garrett<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">The effects of the 1918 Spanish ’flu’ pandemic
were shocking and far-reaching. Here Gill adds a very personal touch to the
story, as she imagines how the disease brought devastation to her ancestor,
Mary Garrett. Gill adds a fresh slant to the story interspersing it with scenes
from a modern-day virology seminar, adding another layer to this clever tale.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Point Of Contact<br />
E. A. M. Harris<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Ann, the heroine of E. A. M. Harris’ story, is modest of her literary
talent. The writer captures her spirit beautifully in her understated
descriptions: ‘</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPSMT; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">With her left hand she
grips the back of a dining chair; in her right she holds a dainty milk jug. It
tips dangerously but she pays it no attention…As usual she turns first to her
husband’s report of yesterday’s debates in Parliament. At her touch the pages
rustle importantly’. The reader is effortlessly drawn into Ann’s life</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"> and imagination, and left
wanting to know more.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Alfie<br />
Cathy Mason<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Cathy
not only describes the Kidderminster weavers’ strike of 1828—she brings it to
life with her lively dialogue and vivid description: ‘</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The jagged chimneys of Kidderminster’s
factories cut into the early morning, sea-blue skyline; determining the
landscape just as the work inside imprinted itself on their faces’. This
well-researched piece has it all: a personal connection with the subject
matter, atmosphere and the feeling that the reader is witnessing a remarkable
time in history. More please, Cathy!</span></div>
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Democracy: Whitehall in the Political History of the United Kingdom<br />
Michael Montagu<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Whitehall—synonymous
with power and prestige, and associated with the Remembrance Day parade of this
time of year. It’s only fitting that Michael should take us on a behind-the-scenes
tour for the Autumn edition. Michael’s an expert at packing his articles full
of unexpected details: the lost palace of Whitehall, he tells us, boasted four
tennis courts, a cockpit and a bowling alley, and its hunting grounds survive
today as </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">St James’ Park, Green Park, Regents Park, Hyde Park and
Kensington Gardens. It’s always good to have an insider to take you on a trip
through history, and Michael never disappoints!</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">Our Day Out<br />
Jennifer Foster<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Jennifer gets under the
skin of a group of children who visit Salisbury Cathedral not long after the
Second World War. Their write-ups of the event are both telling and poignant—revealing
their pasts, and their desires and aspirations for the future. The visit has a
profound impact on one girl, prompting her to recall a fateful night some years
previously: ‘</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">We were going to be evacuated the next day, and I was round
the corner at Auntie Mary’s fetching a suitcase when the bomb fell. We dragged
and pushed at the rubble, our hands bled, trying to reach Mother and Annie, but
there was a fire and the wardens pulled us away’. Another elegant tale from
Jennifer.</span></div>
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Look Every Woman Wanted<br />
Roger Harvey<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Roger’s
the master of nostalgia with his informative account of the unveiling of Dior’s
“New Look” in 1947. His descriptions of the swirling skirts and figure-hugging
jackets of Dior’s look make you want to travel back in time and slip them on.
Roger’s got a great eye for detail and it’s gems such as, ‘…there could be more
than 20 yards of material in one of those New Look skirts,’ that we love!</span></div>
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Model Army<br />
Gemma Bristow</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Vintage Script</i> newcomer Gemma sets
the scene beautifully in this Civil War tale, blending description with a tense
narrative: ‘</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The camp began to
break up. Men doused fires and headed for their bedrolls, some in the barn
nearby, others on the grass. Denham looked one last time for James’. </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Short,
bitter-sweet and with a twist at the end…perfect!</span></div>
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of Lapford<br />
James Downs<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">James’ article ticks all the boxes for an autumnal
read: a quirky character, tons of atmosphere and an element of danger. There’s
no doubt that Radford of Lapford is a shadowy character—‘</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As a young man he travelled the county
in the role of a scissors-grinder, entering fighting and wrestling competitions
at rural fairs in places…A well-known drinker, he was often found in Exeter
late on a Saturday night, in a “supremely jolly state”’. </span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">James’ storytelling is tantalising and urges you to
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Burner’s Daughter<br />
Shirley Cook</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
Shirley took inspiration from her own family history for her story, where she beautifully
describes the art of charcoal-burning: ‘I clear the ruined kiln and smooth the
ground. I hammer a wooden stake in the centre and mark the hearth width, then I
start to build the flue…I walk back and forth, collecting the cords of oak’. She
offsets this precision with evocative descriptions—‘Pigeons coo around me and
in the distance a cuckoo calls. May is my favourite month, everything is fresh
and the woods are carpets of blue,’—and throws in a hint of romance for good
measure. Bravo, Shirley! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br />Read more about our writers <a href="http://www.vintagescript.co.uk/our-writers">here</a>.</span>Emma Louise Oramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08730716658321304187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5665068861137761059.post-17229628733181899702013-08-29T22:11:00.000+01:002013-08-29T22:11:25.399+01:00Gateshead Revisited<span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">I had certainly been there before—but only from a distance. We had
passed the coppery guardian many times on our travels around the north east,
but to encounter it close up was to experience a sense of the Angel’s size,
presence and majesty.<br />
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Anthony Gormley’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Angel of the North</i>
sculpture stands 66 feet tall with a wing-span of 177 feet. It’s a much-loved
icon of the north east, and it’s easy to understand why—it embodies pride in
the area’s history of mining, it protects the natives and welcomes travellers.
Arriving at the site at 9am we expected to be the only tourists there, but
within minutes cars and minibuses had arrived and a steady stream of Angel-lovers
were lining up to have their pictures taken at its heavenly feet. 150,000
people a year pay the Angel a visit, and it’s seen by 90,000 drivers a day as
they pass on the A1. The Angel is a constant in the life of every Geordie—it
feels like it’s been there forever and will be forevermore.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #111111; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Elsewhere in the Toon and beyond it was time to catch up with some old
haunts and ponder what changes had been made in our absence. Work is finally
beginning to revitalise Scotswood—13 years after the area was cleared. Formerly
home to Vickers Armstrong workers, the industrial decline led to the area’s
degeneration. Happily, residents who had at first opposed the mass clearance
and demolition are now excited about, and involved in, the area’s future. <br />
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Happy news for Blaydon residents, too, as I understand construction of a new
Morrison’s with multi-storey parking is underway adjacent to the Brutalist
precinct, through which I have pushed a pram on many an occasion! <br />
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Over to Jesmond, known as the posh end of town, and of which I have also been
resident. The curious name is derived from its sobriquet “the hill of Jesus” as
it’s said that in Norman times the Virgin Mary appeared there with her babe. St
Mary’s Chapel—now ruined and enclosed within <a href="http://www.jesmonddene.org.uk/">Jesmond Dene</a>—sprung up in her
honour, and Pilgrim Street in Newcastle city centre was so named in recognition
of the pilgrims who made their way to the chapel. On a cloudless August day a
visit to the Dene is a delight—its shady woodland and banks cool and tranquil
relief. I remember it best on late autumn afternoons, when I would push my baby
boy in the pram along its paths. Quiet, cool and damp, this is the best and
most private time, I think, to enjoy the Dene.<br />
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Aside from the landmarks, what I realised I had missed most was the dour
bonhomie of the Geordie folk. They’re not great smilers, but they’ll talk to
you as if they’ve known you all their lives—and they would hate to admit it,
but they’re as soft as butter. Despite my pallor (no fake tan visible) and
obvious southern tones, I was instantly befriended by another parent in the
playground, “Didna I see you in the Toon a coupla of hours ago, like?” and made
to feel like one of the gang.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I
can’t help smiling as I remember the dad encouraging his scrap of a boy to
perform a series of press-ups and complicated manoeuvres around the climbing
frame. It seemed a bit tough at first—the lad could only have been four or five
years old—but the last requirement of the routine was that the child give his
dad a big kiss and enjoy a moment’s suffocation in his muscly forearms,
tattooed with the boy’s name.<br />
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We had driven down the previous day from a sojourn in East Lothian and
Berwickshire, the trip arranged around the arrival of the newest member of the
clan. In the kind of delightful twist that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Vintage
Script</i> regulars will know I love, my new great-niece bore the same name as
my own great-aunt!<br />
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The landscape couldn’t have been more different from East Anglia—hills that
looked to us like mountains, and rugged undulations, and the curious reddish
mud, coloured by sandstone, that make you feel like you’re walking on Mars. My
son was in disbelief that we had arrived in Scotland—<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">a foreign country!</i> —and befuddled all the more by the sight of his
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encompassed by the Balfour estate, acquired by the family in 1817. Its most
famous resident was the Arthur, the First Earl of Balfour, Prime Minister from
1902 to 1905. As Foreign Secretary in November 1917 he was the author of a
letter to Lord Rothschild declaring Britain’s support for a Jewish homeland in
Palestine, which became known as the Balfour Declaration. The area’s connection
with the Jewish folk continued during the Second World War when Whittingehame
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newcomers (perhaps resident for 20 years or more), and there’s a gentle
affability as you bump into near neighbours (from five or ten miles away) in
the woods. Connections to Edinburgh are good if you fancy a bit of
razzle-dazzle, or there’s Dunbar closer to home, birthplace of St Cuthbert,
famous for his connections with <a href="http://www.lindisfarne.org.uk/">Holy Island</a> further south, and of the
conservationist <a href="http://www.jmbt.org.uk/content/">John Muir</a>, who emigrated to America as a boy.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/nostell-priory/">Nostell Priory</a>, West Yorkshire (eighteenth century splendour on the site of a
medieval priory), <a href="http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/gibside/">Gibside</a>, Tyne and Wear (an estate once owned by the
Bowes-Lyon family) and <a href="http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/belton-house/">Belton House</a>, Lincolnshire (“the perfect English country
house”), as well as <a href="http://www.beamish.org.uk/">Beamish Museum</a> near Durham, presenting life as it would
have been in the area,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>mainly in the
early twentieth century, complete with an early Co-op, a branch of the
Sunderland Daily Echo and a colliery village.</span></div>
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course, returning home, and remarking upon what has changed in the past ten
days (the earlier sunset) and what is still the same (no hills had sprung up in
our absence). A cup of tea, the abandonment of bags till the morrow and the first
night back in one’s own bed were the finishing touches to one of the best
holidays where spirits were refreshed, connections renewed and—essential to
history-lovers—the winged host of memory was brought to life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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here…and so is the latest edition of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Vintage
Script</i>! Take a peek inside with our mini reviews of this issue’s stories
and articles.<br />
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Oliver Hambley<br />
Lucy E. M. Black<br />
</b>We welcome back expert storyteller Lucy this edition, with her tale set in
mid-twentieth century Canada. We meet Oliver Hambley, unsophisticated and
flawed, but with a hidden depth and sensitivity: ‘Oliver listened to the
magnificent organ intently for a moment, and then he began to sing also: his
voice soaring in the cavernous space…Dulcie edged toward him and saw that his
face was wet with tears. Oliver felt her move close to his side and he looked
at her tenderly. Still singing, he reached for her hand and pressed it tightly
against his heart’.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Happy and Glorious<br />
Roger Harvey</b><br />
It’s 60 years since the Royal Yacht Britannia first set sail, and Roger
celebrates the landmark in his lively article. Roger paints a picture not only of
a majestic yacht, but also a cosy, much-loved home, replete with its original
1950s furniture and fittings…sounds like heaven to me!<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">China’s Sorrow<br />
Clare Reddaway</b><br />
Another thoughtful and masterful tale from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Vintage
Script</i> favourite Clare. This time she takes us far away to China, to the banks
of the Yellow River, and powerfully describes a strategy that became a tragedy:
‘An old lady, white hair cropped below her ears, wide black trousers flapping
around her spindly legs, hobbled through the water on her tiny feet. She was
trying to get home…The water rose over the village and took the roofs and the
trees and the crops and covered the land with yellow brown water and corpses’.</span><br />
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up the Family: Victorian Juvenile Justice<br />
Gill Garrett<br />
</span></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Gill
finds inspiration in research done into her family tree, and here she uses her
grandfather’s detention in Little Mill Reformatory to explain the fate of young
criminals in Victorian times. The details Gill includes tell their own stories:
the names of Little Mill boys carved into the pews in the local church, and the
brass tablet bearing the names of nine young men, former residents of the
reformatory, who fell in the Great War. ‘One hundred and thirty “old boys”,
branded as criminals as children, served the colours; many received honours and
decorations, including the Distinguished Conduct Medal.’<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Baret’s Voyage<br />
Jerry Saville</b><br />
Jerry’s fictionalised account of a true—and remarkable—story is enticing,
intriguing and inspiring. We learn of a well-kept secret that is revealed at
last, and delight in Jerry creates a thirst for adventure: ‘The easterly breeze
stretched the creaking canvas of the square-rigger…The helmsman had set a
steady course and the weather-beaten wooden helm groaned against its lashings
on the deck behind me,’ and peppers the narrative with delightful details that
make us want to read on: ‘We sat side by side on the beach gazing across the
lagoon where the two ships were being readied for departure. At our feet lay a
bag of roughly sewn sail canvas from which bright orange and red flowers
overflowed’.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Expecting<br />
Pippa Brush<br />
</b>Hope and disappointment go hand-in-hand in Pippa’s exceptional tale,
inspired by Matthew Arnold’s poem <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dover
Beach</i>. Her observations on human nature are acutely drawn, and expressed
poignantly through fine detail: ‘The room darkened around her, all light
pooling on the page in her lap…She felt the tightness of her dress around her
waist, the pull of her collar at her throat…She raised her head enough, just
enough, that the hot salt tears did not fall upon his proffered devotion, but
slid down her face where she could hide them on her tongue’.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Mary, Queen of Scots: Conspiracy,
Intrigue and Murder<br />
Stephen Davis<br />
</b>Stephen takes through the ups and downs of the life of one of the most
controversial—and fascinating—Scottish monarchs. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As Stephen’s title suggests, the Queen’s life
was a turbulent one, coming to an abrupt halt in the winter of 1587, found
guilty of conspiring against Elizabeth I. Stephen’s narrative draws together
the strands of Mary’s dramatic life, and leaves us wondering what if she had
succeeded in establishing her historic claim to the English throne?<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Hollow <br />
Bruce Harris<br />
</b>Bruce was inspired to write this story by the impending two hundredth
anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Robert
waits anxiously for news of his soldier brother. A dip in the cool waters of
the Hollow offers relief, and Bruce’s magical words give the Hollow a life of
its own: ‘I knew the Hollow like the back of my hand, quite literally, every
nook and cranny, all the depths and obstructions, and the contrasting worlds of
the surface and the dimmer, hypnotically quiet underwater realm’. Time is
suspended as Robert experiences something supernatural, unexplained while in
its waters. It may be a hot summer’s day, but Bruce’s story leaves a chill in
the air.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Against the Grain<br />
Maria Watson</b><br />
Maria reconstructs her ancestor, James Cooter’s youth, here, imagining his
various occupations. Her story is lively and full of detail and drama—after an
unfortunate tumble into a bin of grain at the mill (‘The grain inside is like
quicksand…keeps shifting under his feet and he is screaming by the time the
kernels move up his chest, past his chin and over his face’), he reinvents
himself as a beetroot farmer, then an ostler. The reader can only admire his
versatility and optimism.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Story of Catherine of Braganza,
Neglected Wife of Charles II<br />
Michael Montagu<br />
</b>Michael describes Catherine as, ‘…a good woman, plain, pious and virtuous,’
but explains that ‘…this did not make her the ideal wife for the outgoing and
uxorious Charles’. It’s a sad story, ending with Catherine’s return to her
native Portugal, but told with the zest and attention to detail that we have
come to expect from <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Vintage Script</i>
regular Michael.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Trafalgar Dusk<br />
Rebecca Stonehill<br />
</b>We end with this thought-provoking vignette from Rebecca, packed with revealing
detail (‘Iris’ dark hair is loose around her shoulders and the placard she is
holding momentarily rests at her side as she kicks away the army of pigeons
that peck furiously at our feet’) and a sense of the shifting sands of history
(‘…as she takes me in her arms…I gaze happily upwards as the pigeons fly scared
and crazed by the commotion into the darkening sky’). <br />
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<!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--></span><br />Emma Louise Oramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08730716658321304187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5665068861137761059.post-34790173379499567412013-06-17T02:58:00.000+01:002013-06-17T02:58:19.327+01:00Postcard from Karachi (via Suffolk)
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">It’s not long since our visitors departed and the flag was hauled
in. The house resonates still with the energy generated by the extra bodies and
souls, and the delight of sharing historical and familial connections. Now is
time to reflect on the news brought back from Karachi, 4,000 miles and a whole world
away from our corner of Suffolk.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">I have to thank the lush
Suffolk countryside for its part in the visit’s success—anyone coming from the
40+ degree heat of early Karachi summer would think they had arrived at the
epicentre of an oasis such as ours. Karachi stands in what was desert in the
Sindh province of Pakistan, right on the coast of the Arabian Sea, and the
climate veers between arid (winter) and tropical (summer). Respite from the
summer heat is hard to find—and while the sea breezes cool a little they also sting
with salt, oxidise and corrode.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">During
<a href="http://www.vintagescript.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/ronald-and-richard.html">my father’s childhood</a> there, Karachi was reinventing itself from a humble
fishing town to a centre of trade and industry with the construction of oil
refineries and its development as a major port by the British. Add to this the
influx of refugees during Partition, then other refugees in more recent times, and
Karachi has exploded to become the most populous city in Pakistan
today—currently accommodating 21.2 million inhabitants. And while the city’s
area is vast—1,360 square miles—it’s not big enough for the population crammed
into it. A snapshot of the city at rush hour—residents hanging off the sides
and onto the roofs of buses, the mass of cars and highly-decorated trucks on
the potholed roads, each working to their own interpretation of the Highway
Code, the people on donkeys, the people everywhere—tells you that the place is
big and bustling and full of life.<br />
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Compare this to the population of Suffolk of 728,000, the whole county
inhabiting an area comparable to the city of Karachi—1,480 square miles—and you
get a shock, rather than a sense of comparison. <br />
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There are oases in the city, though. The mausoleum of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the
founder of Pakistan, is a focal point, and a refuge from the relentless hustle
and bustle. It sits atop a hill, and gives you a sense of spiritual elevation
as you transcend noisy, messy, chaotic everyday life. Visiting just before dusk
is a magical experience: the marble is supernaturally cool under bare feet and
the changing of the guard ceremony is bewitching in its elegant reverence.</span></span></div>
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vision for a Muslim state, and the subsequent complex (and brutal) birth of the
separate countries of India and Pakistan, clearly played a part in Karachi’s
population explosion. At the time of Partition in 1947 the city’s population
stood at around 400,000. Around half—Hindus—migrated to India. But only four
years later, it had soared to over one million.<br />
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For this, and many other reasons, Karachi is a melting pot ethnically—and like
so many aspects of the sub-continent, it’s impossible to extricate the layer
upon layer of history, ethnicity, and linguistic and tribal divisions from one
another. The indigenous folk are the Sindhis, known for their warmth,
hospitality and beautiful, erect posture, a result of binding their babies to
boards when newborn. (You can spot a mile off anyone who was cared for by a
local ayah, their noble posture giving them away instantly.) You will also find
representatives of many ethnic groups from the sub-continent, a result of
migration during Partition.<br />
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From further afield, and according to official sources, migrants from 64
different countries have chosen Karachi as their new home, with most coming
from Bangladesh. Karachi has long provided a home for Afghan refugees, from
those fleeing the Soviet War in the 1980s to others escaping more recent
conflict. There are significant communities of Burmese and Ethiopian people
migrants. The vibrant Ethiopians are famed for their love of donkey racing,
mainly in the old part of town, Lyari, where the faded elegance of the colonial
buildings provide the backdrop to the clattering across the pebbles, the
braying of the donkeys and the whooping of the crowds, Balochi music blaring
out encouragement.</span></span></span></div>
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heat, the dust, the weather, the people are all talking points, so too is last
month’s election in Pakistan, important historically as it represented the
first time the government had changed over democratically rather than by the
habitual military coup. Change, and a desire for change, could be felt.<br />
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Sadly, democracy has not quite won through—eyewitnesses say that while polling
stations were open early in the morning in some areas, voters were made to wait
hours in the searing heat before they were allowed to vote. But many remained
undeterred—those only just old enough to cast their vote waited, the elderly,
patients on stretchers, the terminally impatient. ‘The spirit is there,’ they
said, defiant in the face of the most bloody campaigns in the country’s
history, with 130 people fallen victim to violence in the lead-up to the
election.<br />
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In the end—or even before all votes had been counted—the Punjabi Nawaz Sherif
of the Pakistan Muslim League won the day. No coincidence, some say, that the
candidate hailed from the most populous area of Pakistan and that local
loyalties often supersede careful examination of policy and political
conviction.</span></span></span></span></div>
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news confirms what we already know: life in Karachi, the “City of Lights” is hot,
vibrant, intense. A world away from sleepy Suffolk, where the sun set this
evening in a quiet hush over the countryside, it’s a universe within a universe—and
like the interminable Asian soaps, in a single episode contains enough
storytelling, drama and life-or-death scenarios to last you a lifetime.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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catch up with the stories and articles in our latest edition…read on for a hint
of more…<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">It’ll All Be Gone Tomorrow</b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Amanda Block</b><br />
Amanda’s story explores the periods before and after the First World War through
a triumphant female’s eyes. Amanda’s prose is intensely visual (‘For so long,
his palette held only shades of mud and blood. He can hardly bear it, seeing
the world now, shimmering so’) and her storytelling striking. The reversal of
fortunes presented in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">It’ll All Be Gone
Tomorrow</i> is thought-provoking and leaves you wondering about the characters
and as much about what has been left unsaid…<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">A Time in the City<br />
Edward Clark<br />
</b>Edward is a natural-born writer, with an incomparable style and skill, and
he certainly lives up to our expectations in this vignette of Sixties London.
His prose makes you feel like you are really there: ‘…the Underground’s essence
of swirling air currents freighted with the pungency of smoke and sparking
electricity; the rhythmic swaying clatter of the red trains…the broken tempo of
people now stationary, now suddenly mobile’. Edward weaves in important
milestones—Martin Luther King’s famous speech, the Kennedy assassination—and
lets us live history through his eyes.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Vernon Inheritance<br />
Bruce Harris<br />
</b>Bruce—a skilled storyteller—charts the rise of Luke Astle, a humble stable lad,
during the English Civil War to become Sir Luke Vernon, whose line has survived
to this day. And it’s not just a feel-good story, but a beautifully detailed
one: ‘The late spring afternoon is warm and disturbed by a breeze enough only
to wave the leaves gently in the trees…Luke trots his horse Thunders…into the
trees behind the river bank…He steps to the edge of the water, strips off, and
spends half an hour swimming luxuriantly up and down the Hollow, enjoying the
cool caress of water and a rare sensation of cleanliness in the remorseless
daily military life’.</span></div>
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David Dobson<br />
</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">David’s enthusiasm for all things Henry V is infectious. His account of
the Battle of Agincourt brings history to life with its vibrant description and
narrative: ‘The archers stood ready for the battle…There was a pious hum of men
reciting anxious prayers…Bright pennants and flags fluttered from countless
tents and bugles, pipes and drums thundered across the fields’. David
brilliantly tells the story of how Henry V, the soldier and the strategist, won
the day, and leaves us intrigued with his consideration of “what if?”.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Yellow House</b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Lucy E. M. Black<br />
</b>Lucy weaves her tale set in rural nineteenth century Ontario with a
delicate and expert skill. It’s a poignant story, beautifully illustrated by
her sensitive description and realism. So hard to pick a highlight, as they
come in every paragraph, I particularly loved her understated description of
the home her new husband has set up for his bride: ‘Inside all was orderly and
quiet and tidy. William, and his mother, had thought of everything…There was a
new rocker by the fireplace with a woven hickory bark seat. A small bedroom had
been sectioned off from the open living space, and a heart was carved on the
pine headboard’.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">The Georgian Development of Dublin</b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Michael Montagu<br />
</b>The growth of Dublin in the eighteenth century is a fascinating tale
expertly told by <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Vintage Script</i>
favourite Michael. ‘Then, as now,’ says Michael, ‘the answer was location,
location, location!’ and he explains how the south side of the city became the place
to be, how the Georgian style fell out of favour after independence came in 1922,
and how redevelopment in the Sixties cut a swathe through some of the city’s
finest Georgian architecture. ‘Fortunately enough has survived to give us the
idea of how it used to be,’ says Michael.</span></div>
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Clare Reddaway<br />
</strong></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">You know you’re set for high drama on the seas as Clare opens her story
with the words: ‘The chapel cowered only yards from the beach, defenceless as
the storm lashed its grey granite walls. Inside the roar and crash of the waves
drowned out the voice of the preacher. The oil lamps stuttered, throwing
shifting, elongated shadows onto the damp-stained pulpit’. Clare’s writing
continues to work its dark and enticing magic as the drama unfolds on a stormy
autumn night. Inspired by St Agnes, the smallest of the Isles of Scilly, Clare’s
story leaves you with real emotions, and a tantalizing feeling of wanting to
know more…</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Digging up the Family: Lessons in Social
History<br />
Gill Garrett</b><br />
Inspired by the discovery of her grandmother’s mourning brooch stuffed with a
lock of her mother’s hair, Gill takes us on an intimate tour of unearthing her
own family history, and of the fascinating history behind mourning jewellery.
She reveals that hair, so often used in such items, has long been employed to
symbolise remembrance and affection—from Ancient Egyptian times onwards. While
Gill has not been able to reveal much detail about her great-grandmother, she
says, ‘…I have that lock of hair, a tangible, incredibly personal link to her’.
Gill brings the personal touch to “digging up the family”. <br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">An Unwelcome Chill<br />
Lucy Charles (Penny Alexander)<br />
</b>We’re back to the Civil War with Penny’s tale, as she interprets the “I See
The Birds Have Flown” story from 1642—the point at which Charles I lost control
of London, and from where the country slid into Civil War. It’s a dramatic
turning point in history, and Penny’s storytelling instantly transports us to
this crossroads in history. And it’s not just the drama but the chill
atmosphere that Penny conjures up so vividly: ‘It was dark, and still. The
candle flames rose in the chill air, illuminating with quite golden light the
narrow table where my friend worked.’<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">No Business Like Showbusiness<br />
Roger Harvey<br />
</b>Roger’s lively style is perfect for his account of his parents’ days
managing the Comedy Cinema in North Shields. When his father took on the role
of manager, war was in full swing, and it’s easy to see from Roger’s vibrant
descriptions how the cinema became an oasis of escapism for the local population.
His mother, ‘the golden-haired girl in the pay box’ and his father, ‘the well-spoken,
dapper manager in his evening dress’ represented another world, that of big
screen glamour, to their patrons, and they were rewarded ‘by many acts of
generosity wrenched from a life of real hardship: one cigarette, a kipper, an
egg’. Funny and poignant, Roger’s article is a heartwarming and uplifting read.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Living Statues<br />
Jennifer Falkner<br />
</b>Jennifer writes about Herculaneum and Pompeii—and more than brings them to
life with her easy style and natural storytelling. She’s an expert too on
subtle detailing which adds a depth to her tale: ‘Like so many tourists, he
lingered over one cast in particular. A young girl…The detail on the cast had
come out so clearly, the small curls like gentle waves framing her face, her
fine jawline, her delicate nostrils and open lips, the small ring on one finger’.
We see the humanity preserved in the cast of the girl, the inhumanity of her “admirers”
and the perhaps misguided heroism of her saviour…<br />
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<!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--></span><br />Emma Louise Oramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08730716658321304187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5665068861137761059.post-71236451740483679612013-05-02T15:46:00.000+01:002013-05-02T15:46:27.065+01:00First Night in May<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">May—the most beautiful month—is a time of new beginnings, of expectation
and hope. The beauty of the first couple of May days has been dazzling: light
reflecting off every leaf, petal, blade of grass, and after so many long, dark
days, it’s as if someone just flicked the switch. It’s intense and inescapable:
the dazzling light illuminating every corner of your soul.</span><br />
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into the mix, and the late sunset becomes a relief. The cool, dark night represents
an escape.</span><br />
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past four seasons, some of this time so far away now. Temporal and geographical
closeness may be comforting but is only half-real: the essence of those you
love is forever imprinted on your soul. The realisation that this is so
liberates.<br />
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The second half is spent chasing sleep, which alternates between shallow and
deep unconsciousness. Its fractured dreams of a magical place of spires and low
hills, and a story of deep-seated love hidden like the ancient figures beneath
the chalky soil, negate the need to turn back time.<br />
<br />
The night has been long and I envy the oblivion-sleep of the children, the
cats, the rest of the world. I have company now: the birds are starting to
chirrup, a deer coughs and a pearly luminescence tinges the horizon. I have
been welcomed into a new day.</span>Emma Louise Oramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08730716658321304187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5665068861137761059.post-6068754392791214642013-04-18T22:20:00.000+01:002013-04-18T22:22:59.038+01:00A Wedding, Two Funerals And A Box Of Brite-Lites<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">Yesterday
morning I awoke in the best way: slowly from a deep reverie, mist dispersed
in the mild air wafting in through the window…and then a niggling feeling overtook
me: something important had been overlooked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Of course, the loft needed clearing quickly in readiness for the laying
of insulation (my timing’s atrocious, I know). <br />
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I stacked up the half dozen or so boxes on my son’s bed, and with the men
due any time, I couldn’t resist a quick peek inside. The first thing I pulled
out was a sheaf of newspapers from January 1965 reporting Winston Churchill’s
death and detailing plans for his funeral. The synchronicity delighted me, but
the thought of getting through the day till the children’s bedtime when I could
enjoy my box of delights was a torment…</span><br />
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there was the funeral of another former prime minister to attend. Some of the event’s
absurd details stuck in my mind as much as the pomp and ceremony: Samantha
Cameron’s distracting pussybow, the endless background chatter, Prince
Phillip…and still wallowing in my own loss, I felt a pang of resentment that my
own mother hadn’t been accorded full military honours, a troop of jet black
horses, the closure of roads and commentary by David Dimbleby. <br />
<br />
The children slept in the afternoon, prolonging the day by another hour or so
and increasing my impatience, but finally the house fell quiet and I dug
further into the dusty boxes so hastily retrieved that morning. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Evening News and Star</i> from 26
January 1965 described the rehearsal for Churchill’s funeral:<br />
<br />
‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A bass drum shrouded in black sounded
through empty London streets to-day as soldiers, sailors and airmen prepared
for the funeral of Sir Winston Churchill.<br />
<br />
‘Step by step the drum beat out the pace of the 140-strong Royal Navy crew and
the escort of Guardsmen and RAF men as they moved out of Parliament Square up
to Whitehall, through Trafalgar Square to the Strand, and on to St. Paul’s in a
practice procession.<br />
<br />
‘With the gun team was the black gun carriage—last used for the State funeral
of Queen Mary—which will bear the body of Sir Winston on Saturday.<br />
<br />
‘Streets were closed and police diverted traffic.<br />
<br />
‘The only witnesses were cleaners in offices along the route and handfuls of
early morning workers.<br />
<br />
‘Officers with stop watches timed each movement’.<br />
<br />
</i>The next day’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Evening Standard</i>
reported that four thousand people an hour were filing past Churchill’s coffin
in Westminster Hall, and at one time the queue was more than a mile long. <br />
<br />
‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A number of women and a few men wiped
away a tear as they gazed upon the coffin, illuminated by arc lights. One
policeman standing on duty held a small spray of flowers behind his back. It
had been left there by a passing mourner.</i><br />
<br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘Mr. Arthur Jones, a carpet maker,
travelled overnight from his home in Southport. He was a gunner in the Eighth
Army and remembers Sir Winston visiting the troops in the Western Desert. </i>“I
wanted to pay my last respects to the old warrior,” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">he said.’</i><br />
<br />
Not everyone was in mourning. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Evening
Standard</i> reported that the parish council of Selston in Nottinghamshire had
decided not to pay tribute to the late leader:<br />
<br />
‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Mr. D. Flynn suggested there should be a
tribute, Mr. J. T. Simons replied:</i> “I considered him public enemy No. 1 to
the miners. He was the deadliest enemy the miners ever had.” <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Commented Mr. R. Timms:</i> “Not just of
miners, but all working people in the country.”’<br />
<br />
Anne Scargill, former wife of miners’ leader Arthur Scargill, commented on Margaret
Thatcher’s death: ‘She called us the enemy within. There were only one enemy
within, and that was her’. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Plus ça change</i>…</span><br />
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and magazines with reports of other events my mother considered important were
uncovered – most of the royal weddings from the latter half of the twentieth
century and the mission to the moon in July 1969:<br />
<br />
‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The spacecraft had touched down on the
moon at exactly 9.18 last night. Armstrong called the earth:</i> “The Eagle has
landed”. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">First reports to Mission Control
in Houston said it was a perfect landing.<br />
<br />
‘Armstrong, the mission commander, said:</i> “We are in a crater the size of a
football pitch. It looks beautiful from here…the Sea of Tranquility base”.<br />
<br />
‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Then Aldrin came through with a report
of what they saw on the moon as they looked from the spacecraft’s windows:</i> “It
looks like a collection of every variety of shape, angularity, granularity…a
collection of just about every kind of rock.<br />
<br />
‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Armstrong said he could see a hill about
a mile ahead…</i>“and literally thousands of little craters”.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">A large cardboard box, carefully stencilled with my
grandparents’ former address in New Eltham, South London, was to be opened
next. It was stuffed full of Christmas decorations dating at least from the
194os and beyond that I remember from my childhood (the decorations already
vintage then!)— crêpe paper streamers, Chinese lanterns, fraying tinsel, a box
of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Brite-Lite</i> fairy lights…but it was
the combined smell of ageing paper and plastic that really took me back to Christmasses
spent at my grandparents’ house in Kent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Then the multiple copies of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Times</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Daily Telegraph</i>
from 3 December 1968. These proved a mystery at first. Which world event had
made my mother pack so many copies away so carefully? The first few pages reported
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Banks attack squeeze on private loans</i>,
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Half-crowns phase-out next year</i>, a
fugitive gang spotted on Watford High Street in a gold-coloured Ford Zodiac. Of
course, the announcements pages solved the mystery:<br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘Forthcoming Marriages <br />
‘Major R. A. Oram and Miss P. S. M. Roberts<br />
‘The engagement is announced between Ronald Ashwood Oram , of Farnborough,
Kent, elder son of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mrs. A. G. Oram and
the late Alfred G. Oram of Edgbaston, Birmingham, and Patricia, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. W. Roberts of Foots Cray, Kent’</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">My parents were
married 23 days later, the horsedrawn carriage trotting along the frost-covered
lane, I imagine, and hope, bringing a sense of optimism and joy to my
half-brothers and sister who had lost their own mother a few years previously.<br />
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‘The power of trivia is not to be dismissed,’ remarked a friend on hearing of my
finds. As thrilled as I was to happen upon the Churchill reports on the day of
the Thatcher funeral, it’s the personal mementoes that anyone would cherish
most. And it’s true, they are powerful and life-affirming, buffering the vacuum
of grief and re-colouring memories. They were held in loved-ones’ hands, thus
their energy must be passed on; they symbolise life, hope and laughter and
everything in-between. </span></div>
</span></span></span><br />Emma Louise Oramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08730716658321304187noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5665068861137761059.post-1889567675049299992013-04-07T22:43:00.001+01:002013-04-07T23:14:50.178+01:00The Joy of Text<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">There
may still be deposits of snow deep in the ditches at the side of the road, but
today the warmth was shimmering gently off the flat, brown fields, and there
was promise in the air. Quiet heat has been gathering momentum all day, soaking
into the wood of the parquet and the floorboards, and now, as evening settles in,
the warmth is released back into the house. The sun sets in its languorous arc
over the house, its last rays highlighting the newly-furrowed lines in the field
opposite.</span><br />
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the children succumb to sleep, and their gentle snoring provides the backdrop
for the sounds of evening: the pad of the cats as they emerge from their hiding
places, the hum of the ancient boiler, a radio turned-down low somewhere, a skirmish
on the stairs. This is the best time of day—the perfect time to retrieve the
editing project and escape into the rhythm and shape of the words on the page.<br />
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The collection recalls growing up in a town in rural Suffolk during the ’40s
and ’50s, adventures in faraway lands while in the army, working as a young man
in London, and coming full circle back to East Anglia, where the writer now
lives. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Luckily for me, the writer is talented, his words and images
evocative, sensual, poignant. Seductive. Stationed in Libya, he dreams of ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">soft-skinned British girls with roses in
their cheeks, cool breasts and thighs; hot mouths’. </i>Back home, two beauties
catch the writer’s eye at the open-air swimming pool. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">‘One is in repose, her relaxed, dreamy state reminiscent of Ingres’
odalisques in his painting </i>Le Bain Turc<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">;
the other is feline, body turning in </i>contraposto<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">, eager to engage the camera’s eye, dark hair tousled, eyes and mouth
sensuously aware</i>’.<br />
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I read for the hundredth time my favourite passage, a description of the Carlton
Hotel which stood in Newmarket, recalled amid the heat and homesickness of stints
in Libya and Cyprus: ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">…a clean coolness
in the marble-floored foyer freighted with the smells of fresh beer and wax
polish from the bars and the Winter Garden’s airy brightness contrasting with
the deep shadows and filtered light of the wood-panelled billiard room, the
snooker balls set resplendent on the brushed green cloth of the two tables</i>’.<br />
<br />
Then the writing takes you by surprise, changing from sinuous to staccato in a
scene describing soldiers waiting at Benghazi Docks in 1958: ‘Daubs of khaki on
the sunwhite quayside…Flies buzz. The sun blazes. The sea glitters. The
soldiers wait’.<br />
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The skill is not just in the manipulation of the writing but in the
presentation of a vignette, a snapshot in time. Recalling his time working in
London in the early ’60s, the writer says, ‘<em>In
November the Kennedy assassination halts trading in the city, the news striking like a blunt instrument. The next day, the 23rd, a man on the tube attempts to articulate and communicate his disbelief and sorrow: <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">“</span>They killed him...shot him...he<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">’</span>s dead...did you see it?<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">” </span> There is no response. All strangers, we are embarrassed, our eyes averting to newspapers or the advertisements, or gaze fixedly into space</em><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">’.</span></span><br />
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The ability to transliterate historic, dramatic events into the everyday is an
impressive feat. Shared stories unite, reactions help explain our puzzling
humanity. Maybe we are not so alone.<br />
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The description of atmosphere is precise and resonates deep inside. The writer
describes his father’s regular dawn walks through awakening Indian villages while
serving as a soldier: ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">…the sounds of
barking dogs, birdsong, the cries of children, the smells of charcoal fires and
the earth and vegetation; the new day’s sky a pale lavender shot with apricot
and peach</i>’. I am there.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">It’s not just the weight
and the pace of the words that make up this physical, sensual experience but
the scent of the ink-and-paper, and the feel of the neatly-typed sheaf as I
stack the pages back together, and bind them with rubber bands, hiding the work
away for another night.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">It’s
late now and quiet and I remember that I’m here in this room, my bare feet cold
as they press against the floorboards. I’m for bed now. There’s no winding-down
time for me: words are my love and my life and this evening they’ve soothed me
and will sustain a night of dreams. </span><br />
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<em>Edward Clark</em></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I’ve been editing a collection of writing
by </i>Vintage Script<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> writer Edward
Clark, from Newmarket in Suffolk. I hope to be able to announce continued
success with his writing career soon!</i></span></span><br />Emma Louise Oramhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08730716658321304187noreply@blogger.com4