after William Wordsworth

Done and dusted

A lake which inspired William Wordsworth and Beatrix Potter is up for sale on eBay.

IT’S in the nature of the work I do that I get a lot of press releases, most of which are glanced at and binned.

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John Keats

THROUGH my work-room window, I look out at the mist hanging over the field beyond the beeches and my imaginings of an Indian summer are dissolved in water-vapour so dense the horses are like spectres walking riderless through cannon-smoke, lost in a region between heaven and hell.

AFTER the recent tragic and unwarranted incident in Northern Ireland, I noted that Enda Kenny attended the young man’s funeral for which he is to be commended.

A FEW weeks ago I wrote an article for this page about unusual garden birds and mentioned a photograph sent in by a reader of a snipe feeding on a suburban front lawn.

A young Irishman shot dead by Bolivian police over an alleged plot to assassinate the country's president was a good-natured, loving son and brother, his Funeral Mass heard today.