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GUARDIAN Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:00:01 GMT
New Quay, Ceredigion: You call this winter? With the predominantly yellow palette – hawkweed, tormentil, dandelion, ragwort, buttercups even – it glows like the sun
The headlands stretch out into the bay like so many huge, recumbent beasts. From the cliff-top path heading south I search among all these shades and striations in the grey for familiar forms from Cardigan Island almost to Ynys Enlli in the clearing sky over my right shoulder. There are robins jousting in song from among coconut-scented flowers of gorse. Stray flowers of thrift and campion have somehow survived winter-long. Dinas Head and Ynys Ddewi loom vague in a far distance. Down among striped currents, shoals of bladderwrack show shadowy maroon through thick sea green. Pennyroyal and young green nettle shoots add their quota of colour to a predominantly yellow palette: hawkweed, tormentil, dandelion, ragwort, buttercups even, and so much gorse.
You call this winter? It glows like the sun. There are goldcrests.....
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GUARDIAN Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:00:03 GMT
The trouble with blaming the parents is that you risk blaming people who have coped far better than you would have
Margaret Thatcher's famous remark, "There is no such thing as society," is often quoted out of context. That's a shame because, in context, it is even more absurd than it appears when naked and alone. Thatcher offered her observation in 1987, during an interview with Woman's Own: "There is no such thing as society. There is living tapestry of men and women and people and the beauty of that tapestry and the quality of our lives will depend upon how much each of us is prepared to take responsibility for ourselves and each of us prepared to turn round and help by our own efforts those who are unfortunate." Yes, That's right. There is living tapestry, all woven together to make a big picture. Some people even call that picture "the big society", I hear.
Thatcher continues: "… we have these little innocents and the worst crime in life is when those children, who would.....
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