Gillian Paschkes-Bell

Gillian publishes a small amount of high-quality fiction at Pantolwen Press. Her post, Nature and Us, sets the tone for her blog. She is a One Spirit minister.

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The #HistoricalNovelSociety has shortlisted The Shareg by A G Rivett in its #FirstChaptersCompetition. Last book of the #IsleFincaraTrilogy it's still in the cooking pot - but delighted to have this encouragement!

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@SueMoorcroft There used to be a wonderful restaurant car. But the last time I did this it was just (nice) sandwiches. After 9 hours I was longing for something else and vowed to bring some of my own provisions next time. Enjoy!

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Just finished reading Elspeth Barker's extraordinary 1991 novel, O Caledonia. What a moving, brilliant picture of a high-achieving girl with more than a touch of Asperger's. An animal-lover who can't bear cruelty, pitted against the World.

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@JanetEmson My goodness! I just thought we were saving on ink...🙃

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Heard a Good Friday meditation on #Radio4 that started with the felling of the Sycamore Gap tree. Here's @Supergios's atmospheric photo. Food for thought in my latest post at #thebrynglasblog

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@JanetEmson Might you be up for tweeting about an experimental novel - not coming out un til December? Vu by Kenneth Sinclair has been more than 20 years in the making. In it, Scheherazade is a princess with a male storyteller - reversing the tables.

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BlueInk Review posted on The Priestʼs Wife by A G Rivett: “... has a deep appreciation of the northern Scottish landscape and successfully captures the cadence of Celtic speech. Readers will look forward to the struggle between old and new that must come in the trilogyʼs finale.”

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@drsaqibqureshi Sounds interesting. 👋

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Today - the Equinox - a potent symbol of balance. Pausing to review priorities ...

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@swirlandthread Here's celebrating the equinox and the Feast of the New Spears - the time when we consider our gifts, how we're using them, what we're building. Do you know of this? I learned of it through the Celtic (esp Irish/Scots) Ceile De tradition. 🦫

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The last wee while, the Goddess Epona keeps appearing - she's always with horses. In a lecture by Ralph Heussler on Celtic religion, William Bloom's interview with Caitlin Matthews, a storytelling by Euros Lewis. See my blog #BrynGlasBlog, World's End.

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Euros took us, valley by valley, into the Cambrian Mountains, where he invited us to stop to hear the pure, ringing call of the curlew … From my latest @theBrynGlasBlog post, Worldʼs End.

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@JanetEmson I recently loved reading #FloraThompson's #LarkRisetoCandleford. She writes about a community who lived on and with the land, and were healthy and happy despite low incomes. Inspiring, at a time when the world can only benefit from us simplifying our lives. 🐦‍⬛

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On #InternationalWomensDay , Worldʼs End, my latest #Brynglasblog post, tells about producer-director #EurosLewis on the eviction of a farming community to make way for a military firing range on #MynyddEpynt. The Drover's Arms now belongs to the MOD.

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"John compares the unimaginable number of people living in modern London to the number of leaves on the heather plants on a moor" - from #BlueInkReview 's starred review of #TheSeaborne by #AGRivett.

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@MaroftheBooks Ten world-changing years

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“John brilliantly tries to explain modern technology by cutting blades into a slice of turnip to demonstrate how a propellor works” – detail from #BlueInkReview on #TheSeaborne by A G Rivett: a tale of a modern engineer on a medieval island.

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Mystics see the heart not so much as the seat of emotion, but more, as an organ of intuitive wisdom. Reaching from our centre to the whole. A greeting for Valentine's Day. 🐦

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"The best books provide a point of contact for consciousnesses" @IndyPerro writing on his website. It's in that meeting place when reading comes alive that fresh perspectives and a new way forward - whether a wee nudge or a rare giant step - can emerge. https://t.co/ClA9QAmKqt