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  Remember BY CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Remember me when I am gone away,          Gone far away into the silent land;          When you can no more hold me by the hand, Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay. Remember me when … Continue reading →

No text today as I can’t write in Singhalese and not very good at posting photos from Wikipedia either! Wish I had been able to have Percy speak it for us – it is very musical. Mahaveli, Kelani, Valave, Kalu … Continue reading →

The Marriage-Lintels Along the garden-backs’ high sandstone walls, A carved slab, now and then – linked hearts, initials, Year in spiky, eighteenth-century numbers – Straddles a blind doorway. Each one remembers Small hopeful fires that blazed like candles Set in … Continue reading →

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8mjRxkMBkE we three kings of orient are The Journey Of The Magi by T S Eliot ‘A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep and … Continue reading →

Wall too wet for words  outside but Christmas message for traditionalists. from Christmas           John Betjeman   And is it true?  And is it true, This most tremendous tale of all, Seen in a stained-glass window’s hue, A baby in an … Continue reading →