At the moment … I'd like to disappear off to this Penzance shop to quietly keep my head down away from the news … to be able to read lots of books – but life is here in sunny old Eastbourne – when the sun decides to show its face again …
I'm forever blowing bubbles appeared in my little grey cells – the lyrics don't really fit the time … but I could happily sit on the sands dreaming as the days pass … til the need to blow bubbles has passed.
The lighter days cometh … it is now warmer and of course damper – British weather.
I have numerous tomes, some shorter!, I hope to talk to you about some of them – all in due time of course … for now the winter darkness is still around … but these crocuses are reaching above ground to cheerfully greet us … and remind us time doth pass …
I'm off to an exhibition on Sunday using the Sussex Art Shuttle … a little bus that takes us from the Towner Gallery out to Charleston (Bloomsbury Group Sussex home) … meandering through the swathes of snowdrops, early daffodils and those crocuses …
Not to the bookshop (or the edge of the world) … but a bright informative exhibition in the Sussex landscape will satisfy … enjoy your times …
Hilary Melton-Butcher
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24 comments:
The Sussex Shuttle is a very clever idea. The Bloomsbury Group's Sussex Home was one of the first places I wanted to visit, once I went back to uni to study British art history.
Thank you for talking about the exhibition that some people won't know about. Yet!
Hari OM
I am ever grateful that we have galleries and parklands and shorelines...and bookshops... to escape to and forget the mad, mad, mad world we currently are faced with.... YAM xx
The Edge of the World Bookshop is such a lovely name. The place looks so very inviting too, the kind of place to lose oneself. As YAM says, it is a mad, mad, mad world we are faced with at present; here we have to contend with the constant madness south of the border. To hole up in a bookstore seems a very inviting prospect. Best wishes - David
The art shuttle is a great idea. I’m torn between appalled fascination and wanting to hide my head in the sand at the news at the moment.
Your art escapade sounds delightful. I'm posting about a little jaunt to some local galleries. Yes, blow bubbles, view art, or go to The End of the World Bookstore...any escapism is worth it. Take care. The crocuses have hope.
Enjoy the exhibition! Cold winter here. With snow and ice!
Oh what beautiful crocuses. Enjoy the exhibit:) Cheers,
@ Hels - yes the little bus is brilliant ... and definitely serves a purpose.
@ Yam - we are so lucky to have so many options effectively on our doorsteps - wherever we live or go ... and yes bookshops ... thank goodness for them - reading is definitely addictive ... and we can now escape to our own worlds ...
@ David - Mum and I would often go into the bookshop and she would always be in there: books are meant to be read and I hunkered down as a kid. It is a mad mad world - I am just spending as much time away from that sort of upendedness that's going on: I am so glad I'm not a politician!!
@ Anabel - the art shuttle is fun ... I got the Sunday wrong - it's next week ... but as we're due lots of rain tomorrow so that's fine - hopefully we'll have a dry day. I listen a bit and then think enough is enough and take myself off - like you.
@ Joanne - yes the little journey through the countryside will be a delight - and it's a country route ... and blowing bubbles - when it's warmer ... that's what I'll be doing. The crocuses are looking glorious at the moment - I love them. Escapism is essential right now.
@ Alex - yes we will ... one of our best living artist's ... so I'm looking forward to seeing his work in person: it'll be different. Well I'm glad I haven't got your weather ... it is warmer here - wet too!
@ Sandra - I love the swathes of bulbs we see appearing in our countryside or grassy park areas ... yes the exhibition is next week ... I thought it was tomorrow ... but - another week to think about it!
Cheers to you all ... warm and dryish down here by the sea ... Hilary
I love the daffodils, bringing their joyful hope of spring. I'm glad you're getting out and about. I turn into such a hermit this time of year, don't want to leave my warm, cozy house.
Enjoy the exhibition.
Since I cannot execute the future ex-president of a fascist state and his arse-lickers, I am looking forward to his and their end.
So glad, my daughter is owning one of the loveliest bookshops on this planet. ;-)
Yes, let us all disappear into books. Happy books, hopefully. It's too grim in the real world.
I've never been to the Edge of the World bookshop, although I really need to at some point. In fact, I haven't been to Penzance for years. A day trip might be in order soon!
@ Karen - oh yes the joys of seeing Spring bulbs appear ... I've seen a few here, but we're in a temperate climate - lucky us. I've been a hermit ... but also get out as much as I can ...
@ Sean - how very lucky to have a daughter owning a bookshop - must be delightful to visit and share her book life - I'm a late comer to the book world ... now addicted!
@ Liz - yes ... happy books - mind you, mine are very educative - but I'm learning so much ...
@ Annalisa - oh great ... if you can get down to Pz - now's the time to go - not in the summer!! So much is going on down there - Cornwall is a bustling, full of life county ... so inspirational. Perhaps you can take the train from St Erth to St Ives along the coast - such a wonderful outing. Enjoy - when you go.
Cheers to you four - thanks for visiting ... the light and warmer days are nearer! Take care - Hilary
Those crocuses are so pretty! Everything here is still buried in snow.
That bookshop looks like a wonderful place to escape from reality, Hilary! And how wonderful that you have crocuses (crocii ?) blooming already. I remember seeing them in February when we lived in Germany. Spring comes much earlier in Europe. Enjoy!
I'd not heard of the Art Shuttle, what great idea! I'm guessing you are just back from your trip. I bet you had a lovely time!
My daffodils started poking up two months ago. It's not time yet little flowers! Not when you were covered in ice and snow last week.
@ AJ - great to see you here ...and thanks for those book recommendations; thankfully we're not snowed in and can see the crocuses.
@ Debbie - it's an amazing shop in the main shopping area of Penzance - good recommendations too. Crocuses or Croci I checked up ... crocuses seemed easier, I hope! Yes Germany would be later ... we're in the Gulf Stream here - so slightly warmer and wetter than over in continental Europe.
@ Keith - oh it's a great treat - yes a brilliant idea. I got the Sunday wrong - it's next week - so looking forward to it then and having a fun informative time.
@ Diane - yes the weather can be fickle ... so glad your hand seems to be healing up nicely ... and those daffodils will appear bright and sunny in due course ...
Take care to you all - Hilary
My own prescription is to avoid all news and walk by water...the world has gone berserk! Enjoy the exhibition.
By now you're back. I hope it went well!
I have daffies blooming but no crocuses or snowdrops yet. Your crocuses are so pretty. Enjoy the exhibit when it rolls around. Cheers,
@ Nila - you're right in wanting to avoid the news ... not always easy ... but walks by the sea or water are essential to life - the world as you mention has gone beserk - it's ghastly.
@ Jacqui - well I got the date wrong - it's next Sunday ... I'm looking forward to it ... it'll be interesting ...
@ Sandra - I love crocuses when they come out in great swathes ... but all Spring bulbs and budding leaves ... on the way!
Cheers to you three - the exhibition is on Sunday ... but on Friday a series of short animated films exploring South African political history ... which will be very informative and reminders of times past. Thanks for being here - cheers Hilary
I could happily get lost in a bookshop, and in younger years I so often did just that. Today wee only seem to shop at a supermarket and I sadly cannot remember the last time I was in a book shop. I read a lot, some books but also a lot of kindle which somehow loses the atmosphere. I found a book the other day on my bookcase that I had forgotten about - A School Girl of the Blue by May Baldwin that I really need to read again. It is about a young girl in Africa. Written inside it is a prize to my mother in 1923. She must have been 8 year old when she won it. Take care cheers Diane
Hi Diane - I had missed this ... there's no notice ... so unless I go back I don't pick up til much later - sorry!
Re the May Baldwin book ... what a lovely find - I tried to find one that I could read - but no luck, nor a reasonably priced copy. But she wrote lots of them I see - all different countries/cities etc - about a school girl's tale of living there. May Baldwin had an interesting life by the sound of it.
I wondered if you'd write it up for us on your blog? I wrote about Uppingham school's removal after a cholera outbreak in the 1850s ... for some reason the book came c/o my mother after she died - but was my uncle's rather than our family ... my brother sent it on.
Yes - I don't like Kindle for that reason ... impersonal ... but probably fine for novels - not for the type of books I feel you and I would read.
Cheers - and thanks so much for the informative comment - great to read it ... Hilary
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