January Blues

12 Thursday Jan 2023

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beginnings, January, new year, resolutions

I’ve been neglecting my blogs in the most dreadful manner, lately. Can it be that I haven’t posted in five weeks? That I’ve even forgone the customary Christmas wishes? Oh dear me! The fact is, December was the tiniest tad intense – what with A Christmas Carol and handing in Tom Walsingham’s Book 3…

Then Christmas came – and then… January.

Because, really – I don’t know about you, but I rather loathe January… Continue reading →

Ends and Beginnings

31 Thursday Dec 2020

Posted by la Clarina in Things

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2020, 2021, new year, pandemic

So it ends, at last, this strangest of years, this near dystopia with the world turned on its head, and the plague, and the fear, and the measures of containment, and the uncanny parallels with Shakespeare’s London and Manzoni’s Milan… Continue reading →

And… Fourteen!

01 Wednesday Jan 2014

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new year

I wish you all, o Readers, a wonderful 2014, full of writing, ideas, discoveries, good chances, good books, good friends – or let’s not be too specific: I wish you a new year to match your notion of happiness!