nothing gives me more comfort or more anxiety than fire
Nothing quite draws your attention like an open fire…
Fire: nothing gives me more comfort or more anxiety than fire.
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The fireplace has been subsumed by the TV, pushed out of the nest as by a cuckoo. People now comtemplate the TV, not the fire.
A fire only really comes into its own when it is genuinely needed – when the weather is so cold that you come in shivering, preferably red of nose, blue of cheek and perhaps white of toenail.
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Life revolved around the fire and the kitchen range, and the coal cellar or woodshed. Think what we miss when we press buttons or flick switches or adjust thermostats – a whole world of mystery and delight.Fire is by no means silent; it crackles wheezes, whistles.
Roger Deakin in Notes from Walnut Tree Farm
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I was invited to a talk by Christopher Day in Cardiff so thought I’d take a look at his work to see just what he was about.
I walk up the field to investigate.
A mystery with my edits.
we’re just passing through…
There’s an inescapable melancholy about some of Roger Deakin’s writing.
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