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The Hobbit(s) and the call to ministry
On Mondays, Wednesdays and the occasional Saturday evening, ministers are a little bit like hobbits. As a result of his encounter with the ‘fierce and jealous love’ of the dwarves, Bilbo Baggins, we a… more →
Any Winged Horses Out There?
wrote 5 days ago: Any Winged Horses Out There? The note in A Year with C.S. Lewis for May 11 indicates that Lewis met … more →
↑↓ Going Up…. Going Down5
wrote 1 week ago: ↑ Richard & Judy pick debut novelists Seven out of 10 is not bad. Seven out of the new book club … more →
Great opening paragraph... 17
wrote 2 weeks ago: “In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the e … more →
Wriggle Room Writers - Session One by Katharine Quarmby
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wrote 3 weeks ago: I was lucky enough to kick off the first ever Wriggle Room workshop at the lovely Burdett Coutts Pri … more →
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Stenchblossoms Re-loaded: A Word on Naming One's Offspring
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wrote 1 month ago: Afternoon all. I come to you on this lazy, rainy Saturday with a lazy, rainy re-post of one of my e … more →
If books were real, Bilbo Baggins…
wrote 1 month ago: [photo: http://www.shedblog.co.uk … would potter around in an old garden shed, feeding tame blackbir … more →
Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Recommend the Most
wrote 1 month ago: Recommending books can be stressful–especially when you’re continuously trying to win ov … more →
Three Questions with Lizi Boyd
wrote 1 month ago: As part of our mission to promote authors, the joy of reading, and to better understand the craft of … more →
Rest In Peace: Chinua Achebe
wrote 2 months ago: uTata weModern African Literature ufile. Born in a south-eastern region of Igboland, Nigeria in 1930 … more →
Reading With the Kid
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wrote 2 months ago: Ever since Liam was a little baby, I have read to him. Even though I knew that he had no idea what … more →
What Type of Novel Should a Pastor Write?
wrote 2 months ago: File this post under: ‘it is bugging me right now so I want to write about it and get some fee … more →
Flooding of Isengard
wrote 2 months ago: It seems a good way to continue reading Lord of the Rings with your sanity intact is to every now an … more →
300th post - A View Across the Pub
wrote 3 months ago: If there is a pub in England I would like to visit, it is the Eagle and Child. This is the place wh … more →
The Hobbit of Soho
wrote 3 months ago: At 72 Wardour Street in Soho, there’s a newsagent which goes by the unusual name of The Hobbit … more →
Wed Jan 23 Even Colder Low - 21 High -10 Windchill -29 Hours of Daylight: 9h33m
wrote 3 months ago: I’m grateful for 1. Time Travel Stories 2. Lord of the Rings 3. The setting sun coming throug … more →
Has Peter Jackson destroyed the Hobbit?
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wrote 4 months ago: Under the same title, this post was going to be about something different. I was simply going to wr … more →
An Adventurous Broad Abroad - In the Land of the Ring - Part Two
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wrote 4 months ago: We are well and truly in Middle Earth. We have driven from Dunedin on the East Coast of New Zealand … more →
The Hobbit: A Tale for Our Time.
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wrote 4 months ago: [Scene: Bag End in Hobbiton. Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) is padding around his front porch. There … more →
