Landschlacht, Switzerland, Saturday 2 May 2020 (Lockdown Day #47) Easter, 1916 is a poem by W. B. Yeats describing the poet’s torn emotions regarding the events of the Easter Rising staged in Ireland against British rule on Easter Monday 24 April 1916. The uprising was unsuccessful and most of the Irish republican leaders involved… Continue reading Canada Slim and the Secret Beauty
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Canada Slim and the Life Electric
Landschlacht, Switzerland, 17 October 2017 We live in such modern times that sometimes it is hard to imagine that there were times before that weren´t so modern. Perhaps in a thousand years, folks will think that the manner of measuring time using the abbreviations BC and AD (before Christ and Anno Domini – in the… Continue reading Canada Slim and the Life Electric