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Realms of Gold
@petergknight.bsky.social
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A bit of a jumble at the moment, really. Writer? Landscape. Poetry. Wrote some books about Glaciers, now writing one about Lakes. My circus, my monkeys. Haiku. Two cats and a collie. Retired UK Geography lecturer & NTF. Around 53N, 2.7W.
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I posted a new short blog entry at petergknight.wordpress.com/2025/11/27/m... It's about a watch I was given more then 50 years ago, and another that I bought this week.
photo of the face of my new watch.
November 27, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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We are both poets.
Neither of us very good.
Poets nonetheless.
Ai-generated image of two people looking through a window, arranged as three cartoon panels with each person saying a line from the post in turn.
November 26, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Good morning from Marbury. My #sunrise #sky today. #Cheshire
Sunrise sky with trees in the distance silhouetted against the horizon.
November 26, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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I pencil-marked the margin to flag up a passage I appreciated, and then noticed I was lining over a very faint mark I must have made in the same spot when I first read this book in 1983. Consistent opinion over 40 years… not sure if that’s a good thing or not. #BookSky #amreading “Titus Groan”.
A section of text from “Titus Groan”. With the benefit of 40 years of teaching geography since my previous reading it now makes me think about topophilia. And then I get wound up about how everybody attributes that term to Yi Fu Tuan rather than W.H.Auden.
November 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Good morning from Marbury on the Llangollen Canal. The sun’s not quite up yet.
Early morning view from the towpath looking along the canal.
November 24, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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One of the things I love about 5-day test match #cricket is the variety between matches. Yesterday at the end of day-2 the #Ashes match was finished. Today late in day-2 the India/SA match is still in the first innings at 450-8. Few sports can match it for variety.
Looking out over my laptop towards the TV showing the India South Africa test match.
November 23, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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At the moment I’m (re-)reading “Titus Groan” by Mervyn Peake. #amreading #BookSky #reading . I first read it in 1983 and have revisited it over the years. I’m also a big fan of Peake’s poetry.
POV selfie of me reading, with cats and dog in shot, with the front cover of my copy of Titus Groan. Back cover of my copy of Titus Groan.
November 20, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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When I wrote #haiku
I thought in fives and sevens.
But now I am free.
The view from Marbury towards Wirswall. Glacier country.
November 19, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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My #sunrise #sky this morning. Good morning from Marbury. May your day live up to its promise.
November 18, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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The moon at sunrise. Good morning from Marbury.
November 17, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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November Sunday Afternoon #Poem:

I need to start again.
A new leaf,
A fresh page, a clean sheet.
All my notebooks have been torn up
And left out in the rain.
Someone stamped on them, and all the words
Are slipping away in rivulets
Across the car park
Under streetlights in the dusk
Into the drain.
November 16, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Sorting out more old boxes I found this 5 inch floppy disk from the Palaeolithic era when I was a PhD student in Aberdeen. Floppy disks from an era before the floppy disks that old people remember. These ones are actually floppy.
November 15, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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On my walk I saw
Two crows, the moon, Jupiter,
And the rising sun.

#FirstBirdOfMyDay #haiku #sunrise Good morning from Marbury.
A photo of my sunrise sky this morning.
November 10, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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Good morning from Marbury. My early-morning sky today.
November 9, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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Just a small selection of a few of the books that I imagine I will always return to from time to time to re-explore. #books #amreading #BookSky
November 8, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Proust: ”…gusts of memory…”. #amreading #BookSky
A section from the opening pages of “Swann’s Way” by Marcel Proust, including the expression “gusts of memory”.
November 6, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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After the disappointment of not liking a new novel I’m going back into my comfort zone revisiting an old friend. #BookSky #amreading #books #Proust Some books deserve revisiting over a lifetime. “Swann’s Way” and “Time Regained” are two of my stand-by favourites when I need something I can rely on.
The opening page of “Swann’s Way”, the opening volume of Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time”. The cover of the first volume of Proust’s “In Search of Lost Time”.
November 6, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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Good morning from Marbury. My morning sky and soundtrack.
November 6, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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My sky this morning
Slipping past in the canal
Under the water.
November 5, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Is it just me, or are other people the same? I have maybe a dozen books that I keep going back to decade after decade, re-reading over and over again at different points in life, seeing new things each time, living in them over a lifetime like a landscape? What are yours? #BookSky #books
Bookshelf with three rows of books.
November 3, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Starlings exploding from a tree at the back of my house this afternoon. #murmuration #ukbirding
November 2, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Starlings over the village this evening. It’s the start of murmuration season. Some years they build up over a few weeks into really spectacular shows as the starlings circle prior to roosting in the reeds each evening.
November 1, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Long-tailed tits just 6 foot away from me outside the living-room window!
October 29, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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This might have been my first-ever selfie. 1980. See alt text for more info.
For years, I thought I’d taken this in a hotel room in Inverness, but it turns out that I wrote on the back of the photo: “Bridge of Wester, Caithness. 1980.” 1980 was a busy year, and at some point I had the harebrained idea that it would be fun to walk from John O’Groats (the top of Scotland) to Land’s End (the bottom of England). With bizarre self-confidence I set off on a train to Wick with my tent in my rucksack. I don’t remember doing a lot of preparation or planning. From Wick I set off walking north to my starting point at John O’Groats. I must have had a night in a Bed-and-Breakfast at Bridge of Wester, and this is where I took the photo. I don’t remember much about what I could have been thinking at the time, but the idea of walking all the way to Land’s End was clearly absurd. The people at the Bed-and-Breakfast must have thought I was a fool. I made it to John O’Groats, camped at the most north-easterly and most northerly points, and then I walked some way to the west along the north coast of Scotland (which wasn’t even in the direction of Land’s End). I think I walked for a week or two, camping in farmers’ fields and on beaches along the coast: Dunnet, Thurso, Dounreay, Bettyhill. Then I decided I’d had enough, and caught the post bus south from Tongue. They didn’t have a regular bus, but the postman took passengers. I guess I had walked about 100 miles.
October 29, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Autumn is falling over everything, covering summer’s tracks.
A landscape with a wooden picnic table covered in fallen leaves.
October 18, 2025 at 9:48 AM