Malcolm Sinclair ✍️📖🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Writer, Reader, Historian of sorts. And books, always books.

[Malcolm Sinclair ✍️📖🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @MalcolmWriter]

If you’re seeking sanctuary from the madness of this world, is there anywhere better than a place like this? I feel that I could stare at this image for hours. Simple yet sublime. Lacock Abbey yesterday, warmed by the afternoon sun.

[Dr Anne E Bailey @AnneEBailey1]

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[Ruth Millington @ruth_millington]

If anyone deserves a monument, it's Benjamin Zephaniah. What an honour to curate 'Poet of the People' where George Triggs' extraordinary sculpture shares a space with words by the late poet of the people ✨️

[Malcolm Sinclair ✍️📖🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @MalcolmWriter]

@TulipHeather What a wonderful monochrome photograph :)

[Malcolm Sinclair ✍️📖🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @MalcolmWriter]

@Donna8Star Oh wow - Wacky Races ♥️

[S Sebag Montefiore @simonmontefiore]

Multilateral multicameral multivolume reading is essential: multiple books, fiction and non fiction, one or two for each room - kitchen, study, bedroom and of course bathroom - in a tournament of attention until sometimes one book triumphs over all the others and demands total attention in all rooms....

[S Sebag Montefiore @simonmontefiore]

I love second hand books. They are books that breath, that have lived, in other places & other times. You sometimes find the name or marginalia notes or even laundry receipts of those who owned them before. Who were they? Secondhand books and secondhand bookshops are a special pleasure. They have a past

[Malcolm Sinclair ✍️📖🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @MalcolmWriter]

@MichaelJecks Fingers crossed (not eyes crossed) that it all settles down now Mike.

[Janie Harrington 🌸🍃 @GirlsandGoblins]

The Plague by Albert Camus. In fact, anything by Camus did change my life. I was in my late 20s in college studying Modern European Fiction and there he was....Camus. Before that I had been a Romantic with a fixation on P B Shelley.

[Malcolm Sinclair ✍️📖🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @MalcolmWriter]

@neilrushton13 The first photo is taken from that gallery. Always a joy to visit there. And so peaceful.

[Malcolm Sinclair ✍️📖🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @MalcolmWriter]

Time has stood still not just for decades but centuries at Old Dilton near Westbury. Lovely to go back there today ahead of a talk I am doing nearby in a few weeks. Churches unspoiled by Victorians are such special places.

[Malcolm Sinclair ✍️📖🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @MalcolmWriter]

@BrianDu04700318 If you came this way,
Taking any route, starting from anywhere,
At any time or at any season,
It would always be the same.

I never thought of Little Gidding when I was there, but it fits so well.

And all shall be well.

[Malcolm Sinclair ✍️📖🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @MalcolmWriter]

@gerrylynch So beautiful around there.

[Malcolm Sinclair ✍️📖🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @MalcolmWriter]

@DrFrancisYoung Yes never seen its like before.

[Malcolm Sinclair ✍️📖🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @MalcolmWriter]

I’m forever blowing bubbles. Pretty bubbles in the air.
Late 16th C Memorial brass to Nicholas Grobham with a strange image of a bubble blowing boy (far left of full image). Hard to photograph as in a glass case.
St Mary the Virgin
Bishop Lydeard, Somerset.
#MementoMoriMonday

[Malcolm Sinclair ✍️📖🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @MalcolmWriter]

The smiling sunken pillbox of Porlock Weir earlier this month.
#SundayStonework

[Malcolm Sinclair ✍️📖🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @MalcolmWriter]

On a random stop at Bishops Lydeard in Somerset a couple of weeks ago I came across this Ninian Comper window beautifully set by him under a golden tester. Rather superb. #StainedGlassSunday

[Malcolm Sinclair ✍️📖🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @MalcolmWriter]

@LorraineInglisD @TheSelecter @paulineblackOBE Was with Madness and maybe Specials on a 2 Tone tour. When @paulineblackOBE sang Missing Words it sent shivers down my (then young) spine. Still does.

[@_rt* @literatura_rte]

"Les Danseurs (Autour de l'oiseau de feu)"
Marc Chagall (1887-1985)

[Posy Hill @PosyHill1]

#ShakespeareSunday
What a blunt fellow is this grown to be!
He was quick mettle when he went to school.
Julius Caesar 1:2 

A sharp little schoolboy on the parapet of Leominster Priory. #SundayStonework