Slow Norfolk

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To visit North Norfolk is for me, Dina, always a journey into slowness. Every time I come here I have to get used to that I don’t need to hurry. I have to exercise to walk through the village slowly and to stop the racing monologue in my head. As Laurence Mitchell writes: “Norfolk is …

Quotation ♦ Zitieren

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Siri: “Do you really know what a quote is?” Selma: “A tattoo on the lips.” Siri: “Weißt du, was ein Zitat ist?” Selma: „Klar doch, eine Tätowierung der Lippen.“ When I read Rebecca’s celebration of quotes on her marvellous blog ChasingArt I felt the urge to contradict playing the advocatus diaboli. I am surrounded by …

Schwarz – Weiss – Grau

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Schwarz – Weiss – Grau Black – White – Grey  Weiß und Schwarz sind Farben der Macht – Siri Buchfee Colour is everything, yet black and white is more – Selma Bookfayrie From Klausbernd Vollmar’s Sketchbook Das Skizzenbuch zur Farbenlehre von Klausbernd Vollmar We, the clever Bookfayries Siri & Selma, consider the chromatic gay colours as female because …

Unser Ruhepol

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“Amundsen hat den Südpol entdeckt. Peary meint, den Nordpol entdeckt zu haben. Und wir sind die offiziellen Entdecker des Ruhepols”. Dina, Klausbernd, Siri und Selma A rural oasis of tranquillity between salt meadows and the sea makes Cley nex the Sea a place of peacefulness. A calm anchor in life and a good spot to …

Private As Private Can Be

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“It was a dark and stormy night” With those as famous as infamous words Edward George Bulwer-Lyttons (1803-1873) starts his novel “Paul Clifford” (1830). This phrase was often ironised and mocked by many like Peanuts’ Snoopy. Do you know how it goes on? Of course “the rain fell in torrents”. But don’t you think that …

A Fine City

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“Norwich is a fine city. None finer. If there is another city in the United Kingdom with a school of painters named after it, a matchless modern art gallery, a university with a reputation for literary excellence which can boast Booker Prize-winning alumni, one of the grandest Romanesque cathedrals in the world, and an extraordinary …