Siri and Selma recently read in Amy Sackville’s quietly written novel “Orkney“:
Siri und Selma lasen letztlich in Amy Sackvilles ruhigem Roman “Orkney”:
“looking out to the North nothing but the birds scattered, crashing ocean, and beyond to where it meets the sky, a line called the hilder, they say in these parts; a line sometimes luminous, sometimes obscure.“
Far North midnight sun in Norway
As brave Bookfayries they immediately got the idea to find out what might be to be found behind the horizon. A bold task. For centuries there was this conception shared by old and young mariners that behind the horizon , behind the line where the sky rest on the sea, you fall into a horrible abyss. So we strictly forbade our beloved Bookfayries to sail behind the horizon under the menace of getting no pocket money any more.
Als kühne Buchfeen bekamen sie sogleich die Idee herauszufinden, was hinter dem Horizont wohl liegen mag. Ein mutiges Unternehmen. Gab es da nicht jene Vorstellung der Seefahrer, dass hinter der Linie, wo der Horizont auf der See ruht, ein fürchterlicher Abgrund droht, der Abyssos, in dem der Neugierige hineinfällt, der hinter dem Horizont fahren möchte. Also untersagten wir streng unter Androhung von Taschengeldentzug, unseren beiden Buchfeen, dort mit ihrem Boot Blublub hinzusegeln.
The horizon or “soulka”, how it’s called on the Faerør Islands, is something very dodgy, it’s an illusion. It’s similar to the rainbow on which ends you find a pot filled with gold, as everyone knows. But, oh dear, rainbow’s cheeky ends as well as the horizon are moving away from the seekers with the same speed as being approached. Therefore no person reached the end of the horizon until today. “But“, Siri and Selma object, “we are Fayries who can do a lot what is impossible for men.” And as swift as lightning they disappeared into their red observation-tent.
Der Horizont oder Soulka, wie er in der Sprache der Bewohner der Faerør Inseln genannt wird, ist schon etwas Vertracktes, eine Illusion. Es ist wie beim Regenbogen, an dessen Ende bekanntlich ein Topf Gold liegt, aber oh weh, sein Ende bewegt sich im gleichen Maße von uns weg, wie wir uns ihn nähern. So ist bislang kein Mensch zum Ende des Horizonts oder gar dahinter gelangt. “Aber“, so wenden Siri und Selma ein, “wir sind doch Feen, denen so manches Menschenunmögliches gelingt!” Und schwuppidiwupp sind sie wieder in ihrem roten Horizont-Beobachtungszelt verschwunden.
Is there more than wind farms behind the horizon?
Siri and Selma’s red horizon-observation-tent.
We remember Tibetan mandalas in which behind the circle symbolising our horizon the world of Gods starts, whose entrance is guarded by scary keepers. The English alchimist Thomas Norton called this world “Mundus Archetypus“. The world of archetypes, which is full of danger if you identify with it, as C.G. Jung saw it. As we said: “Stay away!“
Wir denken an tibetische Mandalas, in denen hinter dem Kreis, der unseren Horizont verdeutlicht, die Welt der Götter zu finden ist, deren Zugang allerdings von den angsteinflößenden wilden Wächtern bewacht wird. Der Alchemist Thomas Norton nennt diese Welt “Mundus Archetypus“. Jene Welt der Archetypen, die nach C.G. Jung große Gefahren in sich birgt, falls man sich mit ihr identifiziert. Also wegbleiben! Das sagen wir doch.
For the German poet Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff the horizon is that place where the sky silently kisses the earth:
Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff sieht den Horizont als den Ort an, wo der Himmel die Erde still geküßt hat:
Es war, als hätt’ der Himmel
Die Erde still geküßt,
Daß sie im Blütenschimmer
Von ihm nun träumen müßt’.
Wells next the Sea – a good take off point for going beyond the horizon
Our two Bookfayries love this poem, do you too?
In a way Siri and Selma are right. We have to go behind our horizon to overcome our limited thinking. After all should we allow Siri and Selma to explore the worlds beyond their horizon hoping that it will become no odyssey?
Das gefällt unseren beiden romantischen Buchfeen. Ihnen auch?
Eigentlich haben Siri und Selma doch recht. Müssen wir nicht alle hinter unserem Horizont gehen, um nicht im Scheuklappendenken zu erstarren? Sollten wir den beiden doch erlauben, die Welt jenseits ihres Horizonts zu erkunden, in der Hoffnung, dass es keine Odyssee wird?
With lots of love
Mit lieben Grüßen
Dina 🙂 and 🙂 Klausbernd – and greetings from Siri and Selma beyond the horizon or are they hiding in their red horizon-observation-tent?
© Text and illustrations, Hanne Siebers and Klausbernd Vollmar, Cley next the Sea, 2016
I cannot image the horizon without the word beyond before it. Nice way to describe it.
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Dear Roberto,
actually we never thought about it, we agree horizon more or less needs the word “beyond” before it.
Thanks for commenting and wishing you a great weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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Hi Roberto,
GREAT that you write this! 🙂
We hope, Dina and our dear Master will allow us to go beyond now …
With our best fayrie-dust
Siri 🙂 and 🙂 Selma
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Lovely images, Dina – I especially love the horizon observation tent!
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We really love our red tent, which was a present from our dear Dina and our Master gave us the two telescopes. So we are busy watching, watch, watch …
Golden fayrie dust
from Siri 🙂 and 🙂 Selma
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Well, I hope you find what you are seeking, Siri and Selma!
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We are sure that we do! 🙂 🙂 But we are not so sure if we can share it here. It seems to be something HIGHLY secret.
With lots of fayrie-love
Selma 🙂 and 🙂 Siri
P.S.
We have the feeling that you know, dear Sue.
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Well, that would be telling, wouldn’t it, dear fayries!!
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Good afternoon, dear Sue,
thanks a lot 🙂
Our beloved Bookfayries love their red tent very much. We hardly see them nowadays because they are always busy looking what’s behind the and their horizon.
Wishing you a HAPPY weekend
Dina 🙂 and 🙂 Klausbernd
Siri and Selma send their warm greeting from their red observation tent
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Good afternoon, Klausbernd! Thank you, and here’s wishing you Fab Four a lovely weekend!
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It just started raining and we will vanish in our sauna all together and then having a big meal afterwards.
So it will be GREAT
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
We hope you’ll have a GREAT weekend too
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Excellent! I’ve just eaten some delicious calves liver, using one of Simon Hopkinson’s recipes- add a dash of best Balsamic vinegar at the end ((I had a few drops left to use), and off to friends for lunch tomorrow, so GREAT!!
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That sounds GREAT 🙂
Have fun!
Lots of love
The Fab Four of Cley
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I’ve had a lovely day today, delicious barbecue and fun and games chasing little children around the garden!
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WOW, that sounds GREAT 🙂
xx
The Fab Four of Cley
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It was!
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Beautiful photos. The second one draws me in—I want to be on that beach, searching the horizon with everyone else.
Ω
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Dear Allan,
we’ll wait for you there and invite you into our observation tent.
Fayrie dust from Siri 🙂 and 🙂 Selma
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Good afternoon, dear Allan,
thank you very much for visiting and commenting 🙂
As Siri and Selma already invited you there is not much more left to say for us.
With warm greetings from the little village next the big sea
Dina 🙂 and me
Klausbernd 🙂
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Beautiful
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THANK YOU 🙂
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🙂 🙂
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Awesome photos and lovely narrative. Observation and being observant is a very fine educator in all respects. I’d love to have a tent like this for my studies. 🙂
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Hi, dear Pete,
we are very happy that you like our post :- )
Siri and Selma just told us that you could come for observing with them the horizon’s end next week.
Thanks for your kind commentary 🙂
All the best
The Fab Four of Cley
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Yes, just come around …
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Terrific post. I think photography is an art of observation as well. Go out an observe, observe, observe and you’ll see and find new things in the ordinary. It has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.
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We fully agree: What matters is the way of seeing. And from their red tent Siri and Selma seem to see differently, at least they can observe what’s behind the horizon.
Thanks for your kind words 🙂
With best wished from the North Norfolk coast
The Fab Four of Cley
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We always see things in a new way – that’s how Fayries do it …
Love from
Siri & Selma
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Thank you so much for that kind invitation! 🙂
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You are very welcome!
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When you grow up by the sea, like our Siri and Selma, you spend a good deal of time looking at the horizon, wondering what the waves might bring – and where the sea might set you free. Yesterday Siri wrote in her little notebook: “It’s like being between two worlds, a scene of arrival and the point of departure.”
What a splendid observation, dear Siri! 🙂
Dina ❤
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Dear Dina ❤
wasn’t there a famous picture – maybe an alchimist one – where the seeker crosses the horizon and stands with one leg in the one world and with the other in the other world. I tried to find it thinking I saw it last time in an astrology book – but in vain.
Anyway Siri and Selma are able of being in both worlds at the same time – fayrie magic, unfortunately not possible for people 😦
Lots of love
Klausbernd xxxx
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Aaaah, this sounds so familiar! Unfortunately, I can’t find it or even think where to find it, I have looked and looked. Maybe a deck of tarot cards, a borderliner, a … ??
I hope it gets to me in the sauna later on, sauna is always good for new ideas. 🙂
See you! ❤
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I suppose it’s Baroque – a bit like the Emblemata – and I am pretty sure that the seeker had a stick and took a step so that his one leg was on the one the other was on the other side. The horizon was drawn like a rainbow. Maybe it was cut in wood.
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Sorry, I did my best, can’t find it. 😦
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Thank you
xxxx
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I was allowed to have a look at Selma’s entry for today in her little notebook:
“I almost did it! But once again I found myself on the threshold .The horizon is always far away. There must be a way to get behind it. Yet I am discovering the world once more. North Norfolk has widened my horizon!! It’s raining heavily. Time to fly home to Dina and Masterchen for apple sponge and cranberry juice.”
Thanks for making that lovely apple sponge, Selma!
Dina ❤
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Dear Selma xx
you have to try and try and try … and one day you are beyond the horizon, you will see!
Good luck – and now let’s eat your delicious cake before going in the sauna.
Thanks for showing your diary and for the cake.
We love you xxx
Dina, your Master, and Siri
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When I was young, I yearned for our planet Earth to be flat. Imagine the excitement of sailing close to the edge, in danger of falling off?
Sadly, photos from space confirmed that it was indeed round, so I would never get my wish.
As always, thoughtful and challenging words, accompanied by photos so rich, you can imagine yourself as part of them.
Rain in Beetley too. Ollie and I got very wet on our walk today.
Love as always, Pete and Ollie. X
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Good afternoon, dear Pete,
isn’t it much easier to imagine a flat earth than a round one? On a flat earth one can fall off the edges but on a round earth one can fall off from every point where ever you are. So it’s much easier and more comfortable to imagine living on a flat world and becoming member of the Flat Earth Society http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/home/index.php
But I suppose that Siri and Selma are quite modern Bookfayries knowing that our world is kind of a round ball. Their problem is where the sky begins. If they flutter up in the sky are they are then already beyond the horizon or not. Well, they are at least not behind their own horizon. But lately they asked us these clever questions:
“Where does the horizon begin?”
“Where does the sky rests on the earth or sea?”
Actually no idea. Does the sky starts somewhere around our heads?
Anyway we are sooo happy, that our two Bookfayries ask questions 🙂 To find answers, well … that’s maybe not that important. It’s all about searching rather than finding.
We will disappear in our sauna now (clearly under the horizon).
Wishing you and Ollie a GREAT weekend and don’t fall off the edge!
The Fab Four of Cley
P.S.
Didn’t Asterix and Obelix were always afraid that the sky could fall on their heads?
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Dear Hanne and Klausbernd, How lovely it is to now recognise the locations of these photos thanks to your very generous hospitality. Having just spent a week with you all observing the horizon I am none the wiser. I remember very distinctly from childhood the idea that at the horizon, you would fall off the edge of the world. I believe the horizon to be about 25 miles away but of course as you mention, it’s always 25 miles away. Beyond the horizon has a lovely ring to it. There is the saying of course, one must try and expand one’s horizons. To not be limited, to push further. I think this is something we should all strive to do. These pictures are superb Hanne and as ever, the text is so engaging and thought provoking! Enjoy the rest of your weekend. At least Siri and Selma will not be getting wet, sitting in their little red tent contemplating the horizon and thinking fairy thoughts.
Thank you once again for being such special friends.
Lots of love 🙂 x
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Good morning, dear Chillbrook,
thank you very, very much for your kind commentary 🙂 we are very happy about 🙂
The sun is shining, the sky is blue, and the horizon is 25 miles away like always. Siri and Selma are still thinking about a method to fly behind the horizon. They got an idea, but don’t tell us about it now, they might write about it in their next post.
It’s a pity that you had to leave, but we hope that you’ll come soon again.
Enjoy this sunny Sunday our dear friends and all the best for the coming week
The Fab Four of Cley
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Excellent post today. The photos and narrative were balanced and both contributed to the theme. The theme itself provokes the reader to consider what beyond the horizon means, we all love the comfortable but are drawn to the unknown. 🌅
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Thank you very much for your comment 🙂
Great that you like our post.
All the best
The Fab Four of Cley
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Love the second picture. The people and birds add interest an I like the dark sky.
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Dear Sherry
thanks a lot 🙂
People and animals always bring life into a picture, don’t they …
You find there Siri and Selma as well – but we don’t tell where they are.
Have a happy day
The Fab Four of Cley
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That is a lovely poem and the photos are spectacular. I can see how sailors of old were fearful of sailing into “Chaos” if they sailed over the horizon, the edge of the world. After all, why would anyone believe the earth is round? All that water would run away, over the side.
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Hi, dear Anneli,
we love Eichendorff very much, especially his feeling for the rhythm of the language. All his poems have such an easy flow.
Dina and I failed to explain Siri and Selma that our world is round. They immediately argued that all that water would flow away. Well, they didn’t like to listen to the idea of gravitation …
With lots of love
The Fab Four of Cley
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And at a young age it’s easier to believe in Santa Claus.
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🙂 🙂
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Amazing pictures and good information.
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Thank you very much
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
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My Fab Four of Cley,
Ah yes, I do agree with Roberto as well; Beyond the blue horizon …. That image in our mind’s eye can instill the wildest of imaginary and fantasy worlds just waiting to be discovered.
Hope you all enjoy the remainder of your weekend.
GP Cox
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Good afternoon, dear GP Cox
Siri and Selma are still busy watching the horizon from their red tent and finding a way getting behind it. The horizon-watching enlarged their phantasy quite a lot – maybe a bit too much?
We are enjoying another sunny Sunday and wishing you an easy coming week.
Thanks and cheers
The Fab Four of Cley
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Thank you, Klaubernd. Please tell those lovely Bookfaryies that there can never be too much fantasy. Enjoy them while you have them.
A great week in the wishes for all 4 of you!
GP Cox
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Thank you.
We will tell them, we promise!
Love
Klausbernd 🙂 and 🙂 Dina
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The photos you share here are as magical as your words…chasing the soulka, I like that idea to always go out to seek what’s beyond the horizon and taking in all the adventures along the way, but only if we understand the illusion. I think the Book Fayries desire “to find out what might be to be found behind the horizon” is exciting, and with the right frame of mind the impossible becomes possible. Friends who can brings such great inspiration to others ~ what a special gift. Thank you for this post to continue chasing dreams 🙂
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Good afternoon, dear Dalo,
LATEST NEWS: Siri and Selma have been behind the horizon and just arrived savely back in their red tent. They are proud being the first beings having been beyond their horizon 🙂 🙂
Well, actually they know that all this going beyond one’s horizon is an illusion – but a productive one! It took us – Dina and me – some
time to tell them but in the end they understood that there are unreal realities and real unrealities.
We wish you GREAT week to come.
Thanks and Cheers
The Fab Four of Cley
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Fabulous images of horizon!
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Thank you, dear Amy 🙂
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Beyond the horizon has been a lure for mankind for centuries. now that we know the world is not flat it is safe to see what’s out there. Great post, Thank you.
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Dear John
thanks a lot!
Wishing you a happy week to come
The Fab Four of Cley
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Thank you. The same wish to you. 🙂
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Amazing, so inspiring… 🙂
Horizons can be very subjective, where some can’t see the forest because of the trees… 😀
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Dear Drake
well, well, behind Siri’s and Selma’s horizon there is another horizon – there is no end of the beyond …
Have a great coming week
The Fab Four of Cley
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Magical post. Thank you, Fab Four.
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Dear Tish
you are VERY welcome.
All the best
The Fab Four of Cley
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Stunning shots in this one, especially the opener. And I love the way you tied expansion beyond our own horizons at the end. Beautiful post!!
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Dear Tina,
thanks a lot 🙂
With warm greetings from the tiny village next the big sea
The Fab Four of Cley
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Ich bin für erlauben. Die beiden Feen finden den Weg schon zurück zu euch. Allerdings müsst ihr vielleicht damit rechnen, dass sie nicht verraten werden, was sie hinter dem Horizont gesehen haben. – Was für tolle Bilder! Da möchte ich auch gleich das nächste Boot entern…
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Liebe Maren,
unsere beiden Buchfeen sind ja keinesfalls nur lieb. Auch wenn wir es ihnen nicht erlauben, fliegen sie dennoch los, huschhusch, ganz schnell, wenn wir nicht gucken. Mit dem Erzählen, da hast du wohl recht, sie sind zwar Kicher- aber keine Quatschtanten.
Na, du wohnst doch auch am Zugang zum Meer, die Elbe runter, an Helgoland vorbei und dann gibt’s nicht voraus als Horizont.
Mit lieben Grüßen vom sonnigen Meer und den besten Wünschen für eine glückliche Woche
The Fab Four of Cley
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wonderful post; and gorgeouse images. I can almost smell the sea air. Thanks fab four 🙂
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Dear Maren
GREAT that you like our post 🙂
With warm greetings from the little village next the big sea
The Fab Four of Cley
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Wow!!! A midnight sun – what a shot! When sitting on a beach and staring off into the horizon I sometimes feel like at the point where sky meets the sea is where we go poof into another world or dimension 🙂
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Beyond the horizon there is Otherland and if you look long enough, like Siri and Selma from their red tent, you find yourself in this singularity.
Lots of love from the sunny sea
The Fab Four of Cley
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beautiful ❤
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🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
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Beautiful horizons, esp. the midnight sun -wow, what a shot!
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Dear Eliza
THANK YOU
Danke
takk
Hav a happy week
The Fab Four of Cley
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I can spend hours looking towards the horizon down the beach. There’s always something magical about the idea, that without land to hinder the view, one can see Forever.
That supported by the sound of waves lapping (or crashing) makes time stand still – even for a short while.
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Dear Vicki
watching the horizon over the sea, Siri and Selma told us, makes you fly beyond this horizon where you find a new horizons.
Have a happy week to come
The Fab Four of Cley
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Quite very spiritual your post, ich liebe die Gedichte von Eichendorff, I had to recite them as a child back than in school
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Dear Cornelia,
Siri and Selma learned quite some of Eichendorff’s poems by heart. We all four love his flowing language 🙂
Wishing you all the best
Thanks and Cheers
The Fab Four of Cley
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Yes it is all by heart,deeply meant in its essence
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I love this post for several reasons. First of all for the great images and the bookfayriewisdom, secondly because of the opening quote. Amy Sackville is one of my favourite writers and what makes “Orkney” truly impressive is the descriptions of nature and weather. Sackville puts the landscape on the map with astonishing precision, breathing life into the island’s topography, climate and wildlife. I almost feel like I have to go there and now I want to!
Keep up the good observations, girl! The hilder is magic and so are you. 🙂
Hjerter ❤
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Hi, dear Hjerter
oh we love it what you wrote about Amy Sackville. Do you know her other novel “The Stillpoint”? It’s equally well written.
Wishing you an easy Sunday 🙂
With lots of love
The Fab Four of Cley
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Dear Hjerter,
it was nice talking to you this morning. 🙂 I wonder what happened to your nice, old gravatar? First I thought you were using a new e-mailadress, but since it’s the old one, there must be new changes within WordPress again. I sometimes find it hard to keep up with all the changes.
Ha en fin söndag!
Klem, Dina x
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@ KlausberndI haven’t read the Still Point, but now I have ordered it. 🙂 Thanks for the tipp.
Wishing you a great weekend,
Hjerter
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@ Dina
I have no idea why my gravatar has changed, nothing else has. I actually grew quite fond of the old one …
Ha en god helg, vennen min, du og alle dine,
Hjerter x
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God helg til deg og dine, også!
Klem, Dina x
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I am sure, you will like it.
xxx
Klausbernd 🙂
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Eine gekonnt geschriebene Geschichte mit einer träfen (exakten) Schlussfolgerung. Wäre die Welt wie vor langer Zeit vermutet eine Scheibe, müssten Siri und Selma aufpassen, um am deren Rande bei Anblick der Millionen Gestirne die Balance nicht zu verlieren. 😉
Liebe Grüsse Ernst
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Danke, lieber Ernst, für deinen Kommentar 🙂
Schön, dass dir unsere Post gefällt. Uns hat es Spaß gemacht, über Siris und Selmas Spinnereien in ihrem roten Zelt zu schreiben.
Wir wünschen dir eine tolle kommende Woche
The Fab Four of Cley
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Ich ringe mit meinem Wortschatz und meiner Gedankenflut um diesen genialen Bildern und den dazu passenden Klausberndulierungen die angebrachte Würdigung zu erweisen, das klappt grad noch net…
Was auch daran liegt, dass Oggersheim pleite ist und der Umzug in diesem Jahr ausfällt, deshalb findet gerade eine Art “Trotzveranstaltung” auf dem Platz statt, Hellau, Ahoi und Musik, die lassen sich das Feiern nicht verderben…
Das Zelt braucht man jedenfalls nur, wenn der Wind zu heftig weht…(könnte man sein eigenes Klohäuschen darin einrichten, wenn das Wasser zu kalt ist)
Man muss schon lange genug übers Wasser schauen, finde ich…
So, mal schauen, wann die Hoidois da draußen genug haben!
Visite moi tent heißt auf Pfälzisch: Fisimatenten…..sagen Müttern zu ihren Töchtern, wissen beide in der Regel nicht, was das eigentlich bedeuten soll: Mach mir keine Fisimatenten!
Schönen Sonntag euch und wie gesagt, sorry…das ist so großartig, was ihr hier geschaffen habt, tolles Team: Die fab4!!!(!)
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Hallihallo, liebe Pia,
der Ausdruck Fisimatenten stammt von der Zeit als die französischen Truppen auf den Rheinwiesen bei Köln z.B. lagerten. “Das Zelt besuchen” war ein Ausdruck für Sex haben. Später wandelte sich die Bedeutung dieses Ausdrucks, der auch heute noch in Köln ganz geläufig ist.
Toll, dass dir unsere Post so gut gefällt, besonders Siri und Selma sind ganz stolz darauf 🙂 🙂 Sie haben einen drauf in ihrem roten Zelt getrunken, puh, diese Racker, eine halbe Flasche Sekt klauten sie aus unserem Kühlschrank. Echt …
Also dann mach’s mal gut.
Habe eine feine kommende Woche
The Fab Four of Cley
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Siri und Selma sind doch keine Diebe! Sie wollten bestimmt nur mal kosten….
Vielleicht waren es auch die Blumenfeen, die sich heimlich in die Küche schlichen….
Wenn man diese Strände entlang läuft, so weit bis die Menschen verschwunden sind und man dann Pipi muss und es aber gerade Ebbe ist und dadurch zu gefährlich ins Wasser zu gehen:
Methode 1: Nur wenig weit ins Wasser…(Ersatzhose!)
Methode 2: Tasche aufstellen….zuscharren….
Jedenfalls, was ich euch erzählen will, man fragt sich dann: Wer könnte mich jetzt noch beobachten?!
Beim Tanzen habe ich das die ganze Zeit, es geht einfach nicht, mein Prinzessinnenfüßchen außer Takt aufzusetzen, das schaffe ich nicht, der Erschaffer der Musik würde sonst leiden, denke ich mir. Gibt es dagegen Tropfen?
Außerdem kenne ich einen, der hat wahrscheinlich ganz viel über den Horizont geschaut und dann so komische Sachen gesehen und jetzt hat ihn der Dalai Lama heilig gesprochen, ich meine, gebt euch das mal, vom Dalai Lama!!!
Außerdem brauche ich vielleicht einen englischen Anwalt, weil mir die Autovermietung einen Glasschaden unterjubeln möchte..weil ich an das Gute im Menschen glaube und doof bin, aber man sollte sich wehren oder?
Siri, Selma, vorher fragen, wenn ihr an den Kühlschrank geht, bitte!
Liebdrücker von Pia
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Das ist so gemein! Bist du mit der Autogeschichte weitergekommen, liebe Pia? Welche Autofirma war das? Nicht etwa Enterprise, oder?
Die sollten sich schämen, so etwas unterzujubeln. Kannst du beweisen, dass niemand da vor Ort und Stelle waren um das Auto entgegenzunehmen?
Ich hoffe, es geht gut aus.
wir drücken dir alle vier die Däumchen und Flügelchen,
Dina xo
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Ich sage dir, liebe Pia, alles was mit Ryan-Air zu tun hat, muss man unbedingt meiden. Ich nehme meistens die Fähre zum Kontinent oder fliege KLM, was letztlich nicht teurer ist als Ryan-Air. Ryan-Air ist letztlich immer teurer und dafür weitaus unbequemer.
Ich halte fest die Daumen, dass alles gut ausgeht.
Mit lieben Grüße vom hochsommerlichen Meer
Kausbernd
und Siri & Selma aus ihrem roten Zelt 🙂 🙂
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Hi, liebe Pia,
unsere beiden kleinen Racker stiebitzen bisweilen Kleinigkeiten. Nee, nee, die Sektflasche ist für die Blumenfeen viel zu schwer, aber Siri und Selma sind stark genug, die zu entführen. Das ist okay und außerdem wurden wir dadurch darauf aufmerksam, dass unser Kühlschrank abgetaut werden muss, was wir gerade machen und dabei die halbe Küche unter Wasser setzen.
Mit der Autovermietung ist das ja voll blöd. Da gilt es, sich RADIKAL zu wehren. Wenn du es benötigst, können wir dir einen Anwalt in Holt empfehlen.
Huch, jetzt müssen wir wieder zur Tiefkühle und zum Kühlschrank … husch husch husch. Dazwischen gab ich gerade ein Life-Interview für RBB Radio Fritz über einen mörderischen Traum. Oh dear, hier ist heute etwas los …
Liebe Grüße aus dem hochsommerlichen Cley
The Fab Four
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Was lese ich hier, Probleme mit Autoverleihern und Fluggesellschaften, who cares…hörte gerade “Healing Flow” von Sacred Fire Music, schaute ein dutzendmal das schöne Video meiner Freunde aus Vancouver, das schöne goldene Wasser….es gibt gar keine Sorgen und Probleme…..
Ich habe eine Kampf-Mail verfasst, die bösen englischen Drohwörter musste ich natürlich erst googeln. Kreditkarte ist gesperrt, abbuchen können die Drecksäcke also nicht.
Außerdem machen wir das dann so: Der Anwalt aus Holt ist bestimmt der nette Mann, den ich am Blakeney Point traf und dann geht die Story direkt zu Rosamunde Pilcher….
Ein wunderschönes Wochenende wünscht Pia und ganz viel Golden Flow, Danke für eure Unterstützung!
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Hallihallo, liebe Pia,
zum ersten Mal seit ewig regnet es 🙂 Es ist sooo gemütlich.
Ja, heitze dem Autovermieter richtig ein oder wie unsere liebe Dina zu sagen pflegt: “Zeig denen, wo der Frosch die Locke sitzen hat.”
Wir sind heute voll faul, lesen ein wenig, hängen herum und gehen in die Sauna.
Auch dir ein gemütliches Wochenende
The Fab Four of Cley
“All shall be well” (Mother Julian of Norwich)
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……wisst ihr Siri und Selma, ich habe jetzt dieses Buch der Juliana bestellt….amazon hat eben alles….
Las ich nicht gerade wieder über das Jul-Fest, die Göttin Iris und die Judenverfolgung in Barbara G. Walkers Buch….klingelt das Telefon: Ja Hallo hier ist Münch, der Papa von Sophie…wir hätten gerne 6 Karten (nicht 3) für die Aufführung und meine Frau würde auch gerne hinter der Bühne helfen..
Seine Frau heißt Beatrice, ihre Oma hatte diesen großen Laden in Mannheim am Marktplatz, sie verkaufte dort Rosenkränze, Bibeln, Kommunionkleider und Kruzifixe…..sie kommen aus Sizilien….
Ich bin gespannt die 16 Offenbarungen der Julianna zu lesen, glaubt mir!
Sonnige Grüße vom Schillerplatz von Tante Pia
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Hallihallo, liebe Tante Pia,
jetzt haben wir uns schnell an Masterchens Rechner geschlichen, er ist nämlich damit beschäftigt unsere leckeren Tomaten zu gießen.
Wir wollten dir doch unbedingt noch eine tolle neue Woche wünschen, bevor wir zum Essen gerufen werden.
Hab’s fein!
Gaaanz viel Feenhauch von
Siri 🙂 und 🙂 Selma, Buchfeen
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A very lovely enjoyable post, dear friends with many cool photos too! Captivating!
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Good morning, dear Sophie,
thanks for your kind comment 🙂
We wish you a GREAT week
The Fab Four of Cley
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Lieber Klausbernd,
Du hast ja so Recht: wir alle müssen über unseren Horizont hinausgehen, unseren Horizont erweitern, ganz besonders in unserer jetzigen Zeit, wo die Engstirnigkeit ihre dümmlich-hässliche Fratze zeigt. Ich denke da an einen ganz bestimmten Menschen hierzulande, der sich z.B. rühmt, kein Buch zu lesen. Das hat er übrigens wohl mit 28 Millionen!!! Amerikanern gemein, die im vergangenen Jahr kein Buch gelesen haben. Für mich war das eine ganz erschreckende Nachricht.
Habt’s fein, Ihr Fab Four, im kleinen Dorf mit dem weiten Horizont,
Pit
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Guten Morgen, lieber Pit,
28 Mio. lesen keine Bücher, völlig erstaunlich für uns, die wir in einer buchgeprägten Kultur leben. Wir können uns ein buchfreies Leben gar nicht vorstellen. Das erinnert uns an Bradburys “Fahrenheit 451”. Aber wie dem auch sei, Bücher sind für uns die großen Horizonterweiterer, die Einladung in andere Welten und andere Arten zu denken.
Wir haben immer noch Wetter vom Feinsten, und so werden wir, bevor der Herbst kommt, noch einige Ausflüge unternehmen und den weiten Horizont genießen, das blaue Ruhen des Himmels auf dem Meer …
Dir und Mary ganz, ganz liebe Grüße von uns
The Fab Four of Cley
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Hallo Klausbernd,
ja, es ist wirklich unfassbar für uns “Leseratten”. Ich frage mich immer wieder, was aus mir ohne all das Lesen geworden wäre, und ich bin immer noch meinen Eltern unendlich dankbar, dass sie mich ans Lesen herangeführt haben.
Hier hatten/haben wir einen eigentlich wunderbaren Sommer. Etwas unüblich ist er schon, aber gerade deswegen genießen wir ihn, denn es ist nicht so heiß und schwül wie normalerweise. Über 35 Grad ist es kaum einmal gegangen. Und im August hatten wir sogar eine ganze Woche mit “gutem” [will sagen, nicht zu starkem] Regen. So ist denn hier Alles in der Natur wunderbar grün, und eben nicht braun, wie es sonst zu dieser Jahreszeit aussieht.
Habt’s fein, Ihr “Leseratten”, 😉
Pit
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Lieber Pit,
ich bin auch umgeben von Büchern aufgewachsen. Meine ersten Abenteuer waren Leseabenteuer. Eines der ersten dieser Abenteuer waren die des Däumlings, die ich durch das gleichnamige Zaubermärchen kennenlernte, und mit dem ich auf dem Blatt im Fluss schwamm.
Einen Tag ohne zu lesen, kann ich mir gar nicht vorstellen. Und Dina, Siri und Selma sind ebensolche Leseratten.
Wir haben dieses Jahr auch einen richtig feinen Sommer die meiste Zeit: oft um 25 Grad, sehr sonnig, und wenn es regnete, dann nachts. Die kommende Woche soll es noch hochsommerlich sein und dann kann von uns aus ruhig der Herbst beginnen. Wir alle hier lieben den Herbst. Ganz am Ende des Herbstes fahren wir dann für kurze Zeit nur nach Deutschland, wo ich einen Vortrag halten soll. Naja und dann kommen wir in Weihnachtsstimmung heim.
Mit lieben Grüße von den Fab Four
Klausbernd 🙂
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Hallo Klausbernd,
so langsam scheint sich hier der Wechsel der Jahreszeiten auch anzudeuten. Aber richtig herbsten tut es noch nicht. Das wird noch dauern. So wie jetzt, sonning aber nicht zu heiß und schwül, mit einer leichten Brise, so kann es von mir aus noch lange bleiben.
Wir haben hier [das hatte ich Dina schon zu einem ihrer Kommentare in meinem Bilderbuchblog geschrieben] ab Mitte Oktober fuer zweieinhalb Wochen zu einer Autoreise [Räder aber dabei] in ein paar nördlichere Bundesstaaten aufbrechen, bis hinauf ins südliche Nebraska. Unterwegs wollen wir, vom Sightseeing mal abgesehen, auch radeln, und zwar auf “rail trails”. Das sind alte aufgelassene und zu Radwegebn umngewidmete Eisenbahntrassen. Die sind größtenteils wunderschön und haben, als ehemalige Eisenbahnstrecken, den Vorteil ganz geringer Steigungen. Für uns “Alte” ein nicht zu unterschätzender Vorteil. 😉
Macht’s gut, und liebe Grüße, auch an Dina und die beiden Buchfeen,
Pit & Mary
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Guten Morgen, lieber Pit,
im Großen und Ganzen haben wir hier auch noch feines Sommerwetter, allerdings früh morgens steigen weiße Nebel wunderbar vom Meer auf und Schwärme von Wildgänsen fliegen über unser Buchfeen-Haus. Alle Felder sind schon seit einiger Zeit abgeerntet, was den weiten Horizont noch betont.
Euch wünschen wir eine feine Radeltour 🙂
Wir werden im Spätherbst nach Deutschland fahren, wo wir in Weinbergen wandern wollen und den Rheinjungfrauen guten Tag sagen. Masterchen wird einen Vortrag im Bergischen halten, hmmm, er hat sich dazu überreden lassen, und sonst werden wir goods made in Germany einkaufen inklusive feinste Weihnachtsgeschenke.
Hier, denken wir uns, wird demnächst der gestaltwandelnde Herbst Einzug halten. Wir lieben den Herbst, wenn alle Bäume so fein bunt werden.
Dann genießt das feine Wetter! Wir wünschen Mary und dir fröhliche Tage
The Fab Four of Cley
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Hallo Klausbernd,
“früh morgens steigen weiße Nebel wunderbar vom Meer auf und Schwärme von Wildgänsen …”: da werde ich doch glatt neidisch. Morgennebel haben wir natürlich auch schon einmal, aber Schwärme von Wildgänsen nicnt. Die müssen andere Zugrouten haben als gerade über Fredericksburg. Hier kreisen eher die Geier über uns. 😉
Für Eure Deutschlandtour wünschen wir Euch schon jetzt viel Freude, am Rhein und im Bergischen Land.
Liebe Grüße aus dem “Bergischen Land von Texas”,
Pit & Mary
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Lieber Pit,
liebe Grüße zurück ins “bergische Land von Texas” – wir lieben diese Wendung. Übrigens der höchste Berg des Bergischen ist nur knapp über 500 Meter hoch – und Masterchen ist auf 365 Meter geboren worden.
Dank für die guten Wünsche, aber bis wir reisen, dauert es noch etwas.
Also mach’s gut
take care
und wir lassen mal Siri und Selma zaubern, dass auch Schwärme von Wildgänsen den Kurs über Texas nehmen.
Kennst du das im Faschismus beliebte Lied
“Wildgänse rauschen durch die Nacht
Mit schrillem Schrei nach Norden …”
Es wurde in der katholischen Jugendbewegung und Hitlerjugend gesunken. Wir dagegen denken bei den Wildgänsen stets an Selma Lagerlöf, die übrigens die Patentante unserer lieben Selma ist, und Nils Holgersons wundersame Reise mit den Wildgänsen.
Alles Liebe
The Fab Four of Cley
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Hallo Klausbernd,
als ehemaliges Mitglied [waehrend meiner Gymnasialzeit] im “Bund Neudeutschland” ist mir das Lied wohlbekannt. Wir haben es mit Inbrunst gesungen [allerdings mit “wir fahr’n in Kaisers Namen”], ohne uns des nationalsozialistischen Hintergrunds bewusst zu sein. Den habe ich erst sehr viel spaeter kennengelernt. Und manchmal haben wir die erste Zeile verballhornt in “Wildschweine grunzen in der Nacht”. 😉
Alles Liebe an Euch Alle,
Pit
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Wildschweine grunzen durch die Nacht … SUPER!
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Was ist oder war denn der Bund Neudeutschland?
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It is so frustrating that one can never get closer to the horizon or indeed the end of the rainbow. I know. I have chased the end of a rainbow, but it disappeared before I reached the end. The horizon at sunrise or sunset, viewed from a plane, is captivating as you can see the actual curvature of the earth. As a child I always wondered why we didn’t just ‘fall off’ this globe we live on, not understanding gravity. Of course fayries can fly so maybe they do have a chance of reaching the horizon. if they close their eyes and wish hard enough. As for the photos. The first one made me wide-eyed with envy. The second is just so gorgeous, it has to be printed out and framed. Finally
is perfect.
Jude xx
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Good morning, dear Jude,
indeed, Siri and Selma found out that they can fly beyond the horizon. But behind this horizon they found another one and behind this again another one and so on … without an end. They try it now with awareness exercises and meditation and experience vast horizons, Otherland and endless possibilities. They are sooo excited.
We wish you a very happy week
lots of love xxxx
The Fab Four of Cley
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🙂 ❤ ❤ 🙂
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Wonderful shots, Dina! I think the observation tent is a wise choice for Siri and Selma – everyone needs pocket money 🙂
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Dear Tiny,
“everyone needs pocket money” – Siri and Selma love you for this sentence and are quoting you from morning to night. But now they are sitting in their red observation tent as the weather is very clear today. They send you lots of love and their special fayrie dust.
With lots of love from us as well
thanks and cheers
Dina 🙂 and 🙂 Klausbernd
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I’m sitting in the Toronto airport waiting for the plane heading back to Vancouver! I have been watching to horizon for several hours mesmerized by the way sky touches earth. Your thoughts resonate for the human longing to understand horizons seem to be imbedded within our DNA. When I graduated from high school many years ago I took this poem that speaks about horizons with me…
“Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough
Gleams that untraveled world whose margin fades
Forever and forever when I move.
How dull it is to pause, to make an end,
To rust unburnished, not to shine in use!
As though to breathe were life!
Alfred Tennyson
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Good morning, dear Clanmother,
thanks a lot for Tennyson’s poem 🙂 What a great idea that the horizon is imbedded within our our DNA!
The inner and the outer horizon – it’s all the same, it’s this feeling of freedom without limitations. The feeling of the “untraveled world” …
Wishing you a happy week and sending a big hug and fayrie dust from the red tent
The Fab Four of Cley
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Thank you, my dear friends, for adding joy to my days!!! The fairy dust is very much appreciated!! Hugs coming your way…
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🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
xxxx
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Greetings to you all. I was in Norfolk last week for just a few precious hours and spent as much of that time as I could gazing at the horizon! I never even thought about what was beyond it, just the beauty of the sky, the sea and the marshes in front! 😉
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Good morning, dear Cathy,
then you have been probably quite near where we live and maybe you saw Siri’s and Selma’s red tent at the beach.
You made the point: Why not concentrate on the beauty in front of the horizon? One could call the reflections about what’s behind the horizon a kind of escapism. So we agree: Let’s concentrate on the beauty in front of the horizon!
All the best, thanks and cheers
The Fab Four of Cley
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The heavens kiss the Earth; while she is caught in her own flowers’ lustre. Beautiful poem. As is your post. The horizon is so many things here: an objective, a warning, a mystery. And on. Maybe scientists use the term “event horizon” to indicate a fixed line beyond which something happens (say, the actions of a black hole). To me, earth and sky meet in such a way as to blend their boundaries. I rarely believe I see a sharp delineation. Maybe this is because I think of a horizon as something we’re always heading toward yet not leaving behind. Or maybe it’s because I live in a hazier southern part of the world. Thank you for your delightfully provocative thoughts and insights!
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Thank you very much for your commentary 🙂
Here at the North Norfolk coast we quite often see a clear line of the horizon, a clear line seperating the blue of the sea from the other shade of blue of the sky. But nevertheless we have the concept of a changing and therefore unclear horizon as well, because it changes all the time with our movements. And the sematic field of the world “horizon” is huge. In the Germanic languages the word “horizon/horizont” were used not before the 17th c and it meant “borderline” in the beginning.
Anyway horizon is a concept that quite often was wrongly seen as reality. It’s in a way a romantic concept of longing: you want to reach something that you never will reach.
With warm greetings from the tiny village next the huge sea
The Fab Four of Cley
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So true – the horizon symbolizes limitations in life – always unsettling to take the step into the unknown, whether it be beyond the horizon or the unwritten next chapter in life.
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Hi Kat,
the horizon – always changing, always luring us beyond …
Thanks for commenting and have a happy week
The Fab Four of Cley
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So klasse! Habe seit gestern über die Implikationen von Horizont gegrummelt. Jo…….., er beunruhigt mich doch hin und wieder. Besonders wenn er so illuminiert ist wie auf dem ersten Bild. Das mir sooo gut gefällt. In Natura flüchtete ich diese Bilder auch schon. Vielleicht weil ich unseren Horizont – den, den wir mit unseren Augen sehen, nicht über-winden kann? Wir können nur mit den Winden tanzen – sagte mir der, der die Wüste kannte. Kram, hugg u/o seid umarmt – allen FF einen feinen Wochenstart in die neue Woche. Vi ses vi hörs Ruth
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Hallihallo, liebe Ruth,
der Horizont, wie und wo er immer auch erscheint, ist nicht nur gestaltwandlerisch, sondern auch ein großer Verführer, der einen anzieht und sich doch nicht berühren lässt, auch wenn er uns noch so berührt. In dem Sinne gehört er zu den großen Sehnsuchtssymbolen, welche die Romantiker so ausgiebig zelebrierten. Wir leben hier in einer Gegend mit viel Horizont, da die Landschaft eher flach ist und dann Strand und Meer den Blick dominieren. Bisweilen könnte man hier das Gefühl wie Asterix und Obelix haben, dass einem der weite Himmel auf dem Kopf fällt.
Heute Morgen färbte sich der Horizont beim Sonnenaufgang blutrot, was schon etwas gruselig war. Aber jetzt scheint heiter die Sonne, als ob nichts gewesen sei.
Mit lieben Grüßen nach Schweden
The Fab Four of Cley
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I’m a huge fan of the photography you publish on this blog, but those first two photos are particularly lovely.
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Thank very, very much for liking our posts 🙂
You made Dina’s day!
All the best from the sunny sea
The Fab Four of Cley
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How nice 🙂 All the best to you as well.
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Is not that horizon the same one that also recurs at the edge where dream meets consciousness, the place of neither dream nor consciousness–a line–two dimensional, unseen but real…and…and…if I might add…never found. Except when one is there, magically. So why not loose the Fayries?
If you let the Fayries loose on this, please report back to your faithful readers. 🙂
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Well, Siri and Selma made it beyond the horizon. The trick was flying and meditating, they told us, altough at the same time they had to admit that they couldn’t really understand how they did it. Yes, you are right it’s similar to this border of dreaming. Anyway now they are sitting in their red tent and trying out awareness exercises and meditation on the horizon.
For us it’s very interesting what they found behind the horizon. They said, there’s just another horizon …
With lots of love
The Fab Four of Cley
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There be dragons.
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oh dear, Siri and Selma are (a little bit) afraid of dragons.
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As they should be. Aren’t we all afraid of the unknown, even the unknown we can see?
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You know, Siri and Selma on one hand fear the dragon but on the other hand they want to be heroines slaying the dragon. They don’t like him eating virgins. Well, that’s what they are saying, but I reckon they want to get the dragon’s treasure – not only the gold and precious stones but especially the magic hood. Dina and I think that’s much too dangerous. They should stay in their red tent and keep away from dragons. To identify with Siegfried (Sigfroðr) is an inflation, very unhealthy for our beloved little Bookfayries! They have to learn that Bookfayries have their adventures in books!
All the best
Klausbernd
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Perhaps you have a tale to tell. 🙂
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Dear Brenda
it seems to me that we are afraid much more of something we cannot see than of something we can see.
Therefore Siri and Selma want to get the magic cap from the dragon because without it the dragon cannot make himself unseen.
Love
Kb
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I don’t know the story of the dragon and the magic cap. Sounds intriguing.
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Dear Brenda
that’s from the old Germanic Siegfried saga and was used by Wagner as well. A part of the dragon’s treasure is the magic cap that makes you invisible. If we remember it right, the dragon stole it from the king of the dwarfs.
You find that all in the medieval “Nibelungenlied” (about 13th c) which goes back to old Iceladic sources.
Have a happy day
The Fab Four of Cley
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Very cool. Just in time for a story I was thinking of writing. 🙂
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Good luck!
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Thanks!
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Dear Brenda
just the background:
This Saga, the Niebelungenlied, goes back to the Thidrekssaga, Edda of Snorri Sturluson, Völsunga-Saga and Nornagests þáttr.
Fafnir is the name of this dragon that Siegfried slays.
Happy writing 🙂
Kb
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Thanks, KB. Always happy to imagine dragons.
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most beautiful
expression
of observation 🙂
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Thank you very much 🙂
Smile on and be happy
The Fab Four of Cley liking your lion
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Magnificent horizon images, Klaus. Now I’ll have that Bob Dylan song in my head for the rest of the day. 🙂 Love the red tent.
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Lots of love back from the red tent and from us at home as well.
Thanks & cheers
Dina and Klausbernd
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A beautiful post in every way. The photography is excellent, providing both atmosphere and sense of place as well as illustrating the quite poetic text.
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Dear Louis,
GREAT 🙂 that you like our post!
Wishing you a happy rest of the week
The Fab Four of Cley, where we have a clear and sunny horizon today
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I think I should love to take a turn in the red observation tent! Astounding images that transport me to your beautiful land. Sending very best wishes to the Fab Four. It is feeling quite chilly here in Canada with the fall wind whipping up hints of what is soon to come. How about there?
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Dear Sue,
we have summer still. Siri and Selma feel quite hot in their red tent and decided to sit outside. It’s sunny, nearly no wind and we have 26 degrees C. But we suppose that’s nevertheless the beautiful end of this summer. But we don’t mind, we like autumn and winter as well.
Siri and Selma are quite happy because they can observe a clear horizon above the sea.
With very warm greetings from the sunny sea
The Fab Four of Cley
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I just want to bathe in that golden glow and never even think what lies beyond! 🙂 🙂 Or maybe I’ll head for Cromer. Either way, I know joy awaits. Wishing you all a wealth of happy days 🙂
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Good morning, dear Jo,
thank you so much for commenting 🙂
Well, Cromer and Sheringham are nice but quite touristy. You find the real great beaches in the little villages between Hunstanton and Overstrand.
We wish you very happy days as well
with lots of love
The Fab Four of Cley
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I like Hunstanton but I feel a little more exploring is called for. Next time the family beckon 🙂 🙂
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Please bring the whole lot, I’ll put the kettle on and Selma will make us an apple sponge. 🙂
Have a great weekend,
Dina x
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Thanks, sweetheart 🙂 I’ve just spent the last hour peeling a glut of apples from next door’s tree. A crumble today, I think 🙂
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Dear Jo,
we just ate a yummy a kind of apple crumble in our conservatory after a whole day’s gardening.
Enjoy your crumble! 🙂
The Fab Four of Cley
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Good luck!
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
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What stunning horizons – where anything is possible!
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Our dear Lady Fi,
exactly this is what Siri and Selma found out: behind the horizon everything is possible.
Have a happy rest of the week
The Fab Four of Cley
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Beautiful prose and breathtaking photography! I am in awe of the liquid gold in the first photo! 🙂
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Hi Linda,
we are very happy that you like our post 🙂 Thank you!
This liquid gold produced by the midnight sun is to be seen north of the polar circle nearly every night. The polar regions are famous for their light effects like midnight sun, northern lights, arctic halos etc.
With lots of love from Cley
The Fab Four
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Post Scriptum:
Here you find some pictures of the special Arctic light (all taken in northern Greenland):
https://kbvollmarblog.wordpress.com/2013/07/19/ultima-thule/
https://kbvollmarblog.wordpress.com/2013/08/09/the-hollow-earth/
und ein bes. schöner Artic Halo: https://kbvollmarblog.wordpress.com/2012/08/29/reise-in-eis-teil-2/
Have fun!
All the best
Klausbernd 🙂
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I love the minimalistic feel to your images, Klaus. The contrast and colors are so appealing.
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Thank you very much, dear Jane.
All the pictures are taken by Dina – and of course with the help of our dear Selma Fayrie. We all four like minimalism and especially nordic minimalism.
With lots of love
The Fab Four of Cley
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I loved our trip to Scandinavia in June. Wonderful cities and our trip from Oslo to the fjords was magnificent. Great photography moments.
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Dear Jane,
Dina is Norwegian and our Master used to live in Scandinavia for quite a while. We all love the North very much, the Canadian and Russian North too.
We want to drive up from Oslo exactly as you did next year and looking very much forward to it.
With lots of love from the North Norfolk coast
The Fab Four of Cley
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Thanks for letting me know. I hope you have a wonderful trip up north!
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The horizon has always been an abstraction, the bonderline between reality and dreams, between this world and others. It’s indeed like the rainbow, impossible to catch, but still for us to cross if we only dare. I love the red observation tent. Appropriate for the task. 🙂
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Good afternoon, dear Otto,
Siri and Selma love their red observation tent. Actually they moved out here and into their tent.
They dare to cross because they are brave Bookfayries finding behind the horizon the stuff that not only dreams but also literature is made of.
Greetings from the warm and sunny coast of North Norfolk
Dina 🙂 and 🙂 me
And warm greetings from Siri and Selma in their red observation tent
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Every historian discloses a new horizon andd so do you, our very observant fairy girls! 🙂
Love, Sarah xx
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Thank you very much, dear Sarah!
A new horizon is a new story we tell each other and we find such a lot of new stories there. It’s addictive.
Thanks and fayrie-dust from
Siri 🙂 and 🙂 Selma, Bookfayries
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Actually Siri and Selma are always telling stories about stories – well, every narrative is simulation, it’s representation and stands for something it is not, that’s reality. And behind the horizon Siri and Selma find fictionised fiction. I suppose …
Lots of love xx
Klausbernd 🙂
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How very interesting, I never thought about a narrative being a simulation because it stand for something it is not. A narrative, like Siri and Selma’s are always true, aren’t they? … or not?
I am very curious to learn more the fictionised fiction behind the horizon. 🙂
Sarah x
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Dear Sarah
our beloved Bookfayries are telling stories, you could call those stories “true stories”. These are stories based on their perceptions and thinking, so the stories are true in a subjective way, what I would call fiction. And then they are telling stories of what they experienced behind the horizon. Behind the horizon you find the matrix of all stories, therefore the alchemists called it the land of archetypes. If you talk about this, like Siri and Selma do, you tell a story about stories. This is what I would call “fictionising fiction”. One could say it’s an imitation of the imitations of something the perceiver would call “reality”.
Jean Baudrillard wrote about this in “Simulacra and Simulation”, Paul Virilio reflected this as well. These are all French neo-structuralist philosophers.
Ok, everything clear now?
With LOVE
Klausbernd 🙂
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You got me thinking again now. Let’s see if I got you right;
reality is always a kind of story (my reality too??)
the horizon is the horizon of all possible stories?
So to speak about what’s beyond the horizon, It’s a story about stories. Are Siri and Selma that clever that they found out -or did they possibly get some help from Dina and their beloved Master? 😉
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Dear Sarah,
oh dear, you are challenging me as well.
Indeed, you got it right 🙂 And, of course, your reality (whatever that is) is a story you are telling yourself and which is told to you from people around you.
Well, Siri and Selma are very, very clever. They only pretend to be naiv, but they are well read Bookfayries and are discussing those questions with Dina and me in the evenings. Much more exciting and entertaining than TV. We learnd quite a bit from them. But now we miss them, because tonight they are staying in their red tent exploring what’s behind the and their horizon (which is the same, I suppose).
With Lots of love
Klausbernd 🙂
Greetings from Dina also xx
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🙂 🙂 Such clever girls. You’ve got to love them.
So nice talking to you, Fab Four.
Sarah x
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Yes, we very much do!
Wishing you a happy weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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Good afternoon, dear Sarah,
I thought a lot about your questions and as it’s raining today I have time to add something to my answers concerning stories or fiction.
Claude Levi-Strauss had the idea that all stories are following one basic structure. There is one basic formula, which Siri and Selma found behind the horizon. The same idea was also expressed by the famous Vladimir Propp, who studied the structure of Russian folk tales. So f.e. in many stories the hero is told not to do something what he or she does. Joseph Campbell, influenced by Jung’s idea of archetypes, repeats the same idea again a bit later.
Let’s see the general formula generating all stories as a rational number. Then the question arises if other stories are possible f.e. example following a formula which can be seen as a irrational number. Following Jung one could speak of a male and a female formula. If I write my novels, more or less everything is logical and can be explained. But real life isn’t like this. There is change and irrationalities. Those, I would think, are all going back to the other, the irrational formula.
The non-plus-ultra of the rational formula is the criminal story where the inspector/detective finds out everything by reasoning. The inspector/detectiv personalising the mind which gets its power from the rational formula.
Okay, that are just some reflection about the meta-structure behind the horizon.
I wish a relaxing weekend
Klausbernd 🙂
And thank you very much for getting me thinking again about one of my favourite subjects!
Now you understand why Siri and Selma want to look beyond the horizon. Who understands the beyond increases his or her power enormously.
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First of all, I have to tell you, you can be very, very proud of Siri and Selma. Secondly, I congratulate them on finding the female formula!!
You clever girls made my day. 🙂
Sarah xx
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Hallihallo, liebe Sarah
hier schreiben Siri und Selma auf ihren FayriePad aus dem roten Zelt: Toll, dass dir so gut gefällt, was wir über das herausfanden, was hinter dem Horizont liegt. Und auch Masterchen vielen Dank, der echt gut widergab, was wir herausgefunden haben.
Ganz viel Feenhauch von uns im roten Zelt
Siri 🙂 und 🙂 Selma
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Na, da bin ich aber froh 🙂
Ganz liebe Grüße
Masterchen 🙂
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Sehr überzeugend, das sind wunderschöne Aussichten.
Dagegen die politische Stimmung in D:
Der Horizont vieler Menschen ist wie ein Kreis mit Radius Null. Und das nennen sie dann ihren Standpunkt.
Albert Einstein
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DerEinstein hatte es ja wirklich drauf: tolle Metapher!
Wr sind lange nicht mehr in D gewesen, werden aber im Herbst dort kurz einen Vortrag halten, naja nicht wir, sondern Masterchen.
Liebe Grüße
The Fab Four of Cley
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Seid ihr auch in Frankfurter Raum?
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Nein, das sind wir leider nicht. Der Vortrag ist in Solingen. Wir bleiben dann kurz nördlich davon und schwuppdiwupp geht’s nach Holland und zurück nach Hause.
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Dear Chillbrook
thank you so much for mentioning us in such a friendly way. We very much appreciate this
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
Wishing you a happy weekend
The Fab Four of Cley xx
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Siri und Selma haben recht, was denn sonst?
Liebe Grüße von mick
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Lieber Mick
KLAR DOCH! 🙂
Ganz liebe Grüße von uns
The Fab Four of Cley
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Absolutely gorgeous photos!
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THANK YOU
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
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How bright and beckoning is your horizon ! No binoculars needed just an imagination to venture over and beyond to who knows where …. beautiful photos and words . Happy Sunday to The Fab Four 🙂
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Dear Louise
thank you very, very much 🙂
We are happy that you like our post – we like it too 😉
Wishing you a Happy week
The Fab Four of Cley
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Hi Louise
you really got it: We don’t need binoculars or telescopes. We learned: looking out is looking in.
Lots of fayrie dust
from Siri 🙂 and 🙂 Selma
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Sorry, dear Louise, it took me a while … Now I know who you are. Actually Dina told me.
Warm greetings to you and Adrian and Chris
from
Klausbernd and the rest of The Fab Four of Cley
You know you are very welcome to come around with the two boys. We suppose they told you about us. We hope they mentioned our good sides only 😉
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Oh … but of course Klausbernd 😉
That’s so very very kind of you Klausbernd , thank you . I’m sure AJ and I will look into hiring a cottage up Blakeney or Cley way at some point , it would be lovely to have a happy gathering under big sky country all together :-). It’s been a few years since we visited Norfolk , in fact it was when DD was much younger and raced crabs down the jetty … Happy Sunday !
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Dear Louise
You wouldn’t believe it, last week there was the first “World Pier Crabbing Championship” in Cromer and Sheringham. Anyway crabbing is the big thing, especially in Blakeney and Wells.
We are looking forward meeting you
The Fab Four of Cley
🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂
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herrlich!
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Na prima, dass dir unsere Post gefällt. Das freut uns.
Liebe Grüße
The Fab Four of Cley
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The photos are beautiful. And I like the mythos or story, that you laid out here.
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Thank you very much. Great that you like our post! 🙂
With lots of love
The Fab Four of Cley
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Thanks for responding. Ill definitely be back.
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Great!
You are very welcome 🙂
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Beautiful and full of poetry. Gorgeous photos too. Thanks!
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Thanks for your kind commentary 🙂 Dina is very happy that you like her photography she did with the help of our beloved Selma Fayrie.
All the best
The Fab Four of Cley
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You’re welcome, as Dina and the 4 of you. I’m reblogging this at elcoleccionistahipnotico.com
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Thank you very very much for reblogging! We feel honoured 🙂
With lots of love
The Fb Four of Cley
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I feel honored myself to have your post reblogged On my site. Thanks for your kind words. 💜
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Hello!
We want to say THANK YOU as well 🙂 🙂
and to send you lots of fayrie dust
Siri 🙂 and 🙂 Selma, Bookfayries
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😀
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Beyond The Horizon
WRITTEN BY: BOB DYLAN
Beyond the horizon, behind the sun
At the end of the rainbow life has only begun
In the long hours of twilight ‘neath the stardust above
Beyond the horizon it is easy to love
My wretched heart’s pounding
I felt an angel’s kiss
My memories are drowning
In mortal bliss
Beyond the horizon, in the Springtime or Fall
Love waits forever for one and for all
Beyond the horizon across the divide
‘Round about midnight, we’ll be on the same side
Down in the valley the water runs cold
Beyond the horizon someone prayed for your soul
I’m touched with desire
What don’t I do?
I’ll throw the logs on the fire
I’ll build my world around you
Beyond the horizon, at the end of the game
Every step that you take, I’m walking the same
Beyond the horizon the night winds blow
The theme of a melody from many moons ago
The bells of St. Mary, how sweetly they chime
Beyond the horizon I found you just in time
It’s dark and it’s dreary
I ponder in vain
I’m weakened, I’m weary
My repentance is plain
Beyond the horizon o’er the treacherous sea
I still can’t believe that you’ve set aside your love for me
Beyond the horizon, ‘neath crimson skies
In the soft light of morning I’ll follow you with my eyes
Through countries and kingdoms and temples of stone
Beyond the horizon right down to the bone
It’s late in the season
Never knew, never cared
Whatever the reason
Someone’s life has been spared
Beyond the horizon the sky is so blue
I’ve got more than a lifetime to live lovin’ you
Copyright © 2006 by Special Rider Music
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GREAT!
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Thank you to remind us of this great song
Dina and Klausbernd
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Thanks, i thought it Was appropriate and gave a new dimensión to your article, which Was impressive
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Yes, indeed, it really does. Thanks again.
Love from
The Fab Four of sunny Cley
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Thank You. Love to all of You too
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Incredible images, and such a fascinating concept. I’ve been watching the series Vikings lately, and I’m so in awe of those early travellers who had little concept of what could possibly be beyond the horizon – but went anyway!
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Good afternoon, dear Claire,
the Vikings were very very brave. They had to search for new land beyond the horizon because they could only just survive in their motherland.
Thanks for commenting.
Wishing you a happy day
The Fab Four of Cley
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True – having survived a few winters in Stockholm, I don’t blame them!
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Dear Claire
What a coincident! I lived in Stockholm and north of Stockholm for quite some years when I was a child. I loved the real winter and still do. Actually this climate at the North Norfolk coast is too mild for me. But I escape often into the Arctic like Greenland and Svalbard.
All the best
Klausbernd
Greetings from the reast of The Fab Four of Cley
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My dear friends xxx
realy GREAT pics and text – well done! And thanks for sharing
With lots of love from the Arctic
Per Magnus
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To our dear friend Per Magnus
Thank you so much. We are happy that you like our post. It was fun writing it 🙂
Lots of love back from our little village next the big sea
The Fab Four of Cley
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I’ve never really being to the sea or looked at the horizon. But I imagine how it looks. Nice photos! And the narrative,amazing! Gives me an insight
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Thank you very much for commenting.
To be at the seaside is great! We hope that you will see the sea soon. It’s a very special experience.
With lots of love
The Fab Four of Cley
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Awesome pics, Thanks for sharing 🙂
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You are very welcome 🙂
Have a nice weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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Wonderful photos! The horizon beckons 🙂
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Dear Christy
Thanks a lot 🙂
All the best
The Fab Four of Cley
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Lovely and magical. The pictures are great. 🙂 — Suzanne
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Dear Suzanne
thank you very much 🙂
Have a happy weekend
The Fab Four of Cley
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Are you familiar with the song “Beyond the Blue Horizon”?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_the_Blue_Horizon_(song)
You can listen to it here.
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Hi Steve,
thanks a lot for this link 🙂
Unfortunately we didn’t know this song.
Have a happy week
The Fab Four of Cley
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WOW! We are so happy that we got more than 400 LIKEs for this post and say thank you to all of you who visited and liked this post.
With love xx
Siri 🙂 and 🙂 Selma, Klausbernd 🙂 and 🙂 Dina
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You have the most beautiful site.. love it..
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Good morning, dear Sherri,
WOW! Thanks a lot for your very kind words and for reblogging 🙂 We feel honoured.
Great that you like our site.
With lots of love
The Fab Four of Cley
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Lovely pictures!
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Dear Hannah,
thank you 🙂
All the best
The Fab Four of Cley
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