I shiver slightly in front of the computer, Mollie wants the bed so I must get up. Her incessant meowing tells me this. I have changed the font on my blog, (nanum gothic) the letters are thinner but more rounded. I wonder if I can thank Eric Gill for this? An interesting person who would definitely be 'cancel culture' now if all his various sins came to life. But foolish young people what would you write with?
Have you ever met an 'erotic lawn roller' for instance? Gill was everything art based and if you read the second link below you will know my interest in the Augustinian Llanthony Priory that is part of the valley in the Black Mountains which he and his family lived.
Gosh when I plunder past blogs of mine what delicious things roll up. Eric Gill lived in Wales, where all sensible people should live if they wish to escape this world. He lived in Capel-y-Ffin down a narrow lane.
Well apart from Eric Ravilious who visited Gill at his Welsh (see James Russell link down below for the work) retreat there was one of the Beat poets - Allen Ginsberg also who made their way down the narrow lanes of this part of Wales on their way to Hay-on-Wye. And you will find a poem written by Ginsberg down below.
Wales Visitation
White fog lifting; falling on mountain-brow
Trees moving in rivers of wind
The clouds arise
as on a wave, gigantic eddy lifting mist
above teeming ferns exquisitely swayed
along a green crag
glimpsed thru mullioned glass in valley raine—
Aside from small, medium, large, I didn't know about changing the font in Blogger. I must investigate.
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