by hillbakery | Sep 24, 2016 | Blog
7 February 2015. A note to the following, which was written last year: it is reported that Robert Green, who recreated Doves Type in a digital version, has now managed to locate some of the original sorts and recover them from their watery grave. Read the report here ...
by hillbakery | Sep 24, 2016 | Blog
This month’s poetry offering was of course chosen mainly by virtue of the fact that it contains the word ‘April’ in the first line. I suppose I could just as well have opted for the start of The Waste Land, but The Canterbury Tales is a rather more locally rooted...
by hillbakery | Sep 24, 2016 | Blog
No apologies for this month’s poem being another by Edward Thomas – he is probably my favourite poet, after all, and one reason why my son is called Tom. A week or so ago I realised that today – 24 June – is the centenary of his journey by train that stopped...
by hillbakery | Aug 18, 2016 | Blog
I’ve been rereading Herbert Marcuse’s One-Dimensional Man this week and was surprised to realise that 2014 is the 50th anniversary of its publication. This, after all, was the bible of youthful rebellion in the Sixties, a central text for the soixante-huitards as well...
by hillbakery | Aug 18, 2016 | Blog
So there I was last week, driving up to Oxfordshire for the Towersey folk festival, when I remembered that I needed to stock up on a few basics. Happy as I am to shell out a fiver or more for an organic tofuburger, this gets expensive when extrapolated over an entire...
