Musings Archives – Jan Fuscoe - Award-winning Writer & Photographer https://www.janfuscoe.com/tag/musings/ Thu, 18 Apr 2024 10:46:07 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://www.janfuscoe.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/favicon2.png Musings Archives – Jan Fuscoe - Award-winning Writer & Photographer https://www.janfuscoe.com/tag/musings/ 32 32 172376967 ‘Be yourself’ – William Ellory Channing https://www.janfuscoe.com/be-yourself/ https://www.janfuscoe.com/be-yourself/#respond Tue, 25 Aug 2015 14:55:42 +0000 https://www.janfuscoe.com/?p=7003 William Ellory Channing was a Transcendentalist poet, born in 1818 in Boston, Massachussets. Channing wrote about the importance of being true to yourself:   ‘To live content with small means – to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich – to study hard,…

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]]> https://www.janfuscoe.com/be-yourself/feed/ 0 7003 Venice https://www.janfuscoe.com/venice/ https://www.janfuscoe.com/venice/#respond Sun, 08 Feb 2015 07:44:10 +0000 https://www.janfuscoe.com/?p=3547 Venice was once a water-logged destination for those escaping the plague on mainland Italy. It became one of the most powerful Italian republics, a great maritime power, and centre for the world’s finest art and music. Today the city seems to be drowning under the weight of its success. Each year it’s invaded by tourists…

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]]> https://www.janfuscoe.com/venice/feed/ 0 3547 What about the anti-war effort? https://www.janfuscoe.com/what-about-the-anti-war-effort/ Fri, 08 Aug 2014 12:14:56 +0000 https://www.janfuscoe.com/?p=3265 East London Federation of Suffragettes Didn’t know that it’s 100 years since the start of the First World War? Unlikely. You can’t move for TV and radio programmes dedicated to it, local talks, ceremonies, commemorations, exhibitions… No, this centenary is something that we are all very much aware of. But what of the anti-war movement?…

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]]> 3265 The night I gave money to a stranger… https://www.janfuscoe.com/the-strangest-night/ Thu, 18 Jul 2013 10:54:11 +0000 https://www.janfuscoe.com/?p=2573 18 July 2013 As I walked up the road to Leila’s Café in Shoreditch – a familiar place where I’ve had many a delicious breakfast, almost sharing a table with Keira Knightley once, but I digress  – I mused on the fact that very soon I was going to have dinner with a bunch of…

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]]> 2573 Bees https://www.janfuscoe.com/bee-dream/ Sat, 06 Apr 2013 11:13:30 +0000 https://www.janfuscoe.com/?p=2420 This is my first hive and it’s been a real roller-coaster of a year. On the first decent day we’ve had in months, the bees came out to collect pollen. Following a terrible winter, then a cold and wet spring, I wasn’t sure they’d survived. I’ve had a few bee ‘anxiety’ dreams since I got…

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]]> 2420 Rimini remembered https://www.janfuscoe.com/rimini-remembered/ Mon, 18 Jun 2012 10:14:52 +0000 https://www.janfuscoe.com/?p=921 June 2012 I’m looking forward to going back to Rimini. The last visit was back in 1970, on a ’round Europe’ caravanning holiday with my parents and three sisters.  I was nine years old. Needless to say, with four girls ranging in age from seven to seventeen, there were tensions. The eldest, going through a Garbo…

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]]> 921 24 hours in Bologna https://www.janfuscoe.com/24-hours-in-bologna/ Sun, 20 May 2012 13:06:04 +0000 https://www.janfuscoe.com/?p=847 The Mille Miglia is one of the most famous classic car races in the world. As a participant in the Blogville project in Bologna, I got to hang out in the VIP area. It was an opportunity to get close to the sort of cars that I’d recently drooled over in Modena’s Ferrari museum. Some…

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