Derek Turner
@DerekTurner1964
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Author of 'Edge of England: Landfall in Lincolnshire' & var. novels. Intermittently in 'Spectator,' 'Irish Times,' 'Country Life,' 'Unherd,' 'Guardian' & c.
Lincolnshire
Joined January 2014
@DerekTurner1964 @EngelsbergIdeas Thank you for that review in form of your beautiful text. I thought this review is literature in its own right, sommething that my German is only mimmicking clumsily. I haven't read the book yet but it's on my holiday list ✌️
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All of this.
This is a real ad that just dropped from the Trump administration, aimed at bringing “civility” back to air travel. It starts with classic Americana aesthetic from the 50s-90s and then cuts to spirit airlines brawls. Absolutely incredible content.
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Piquant piece of ethnography
Cannot tell you how much I adore this clip from 1941 of women from the Western Isles of the Outer Hebrides singing as they work their Harris Tweed. It was shot by the great JACK CARDIFF.
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A Pholcid spider hanging in a quiet corner of the living room, awaiting events as winter washes over her - movements of leaves and branches from outside, birds flickering, and my own movements here in the house. How does all this seem to her? What registers - what doesn't - and
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"Was wurde gesprochen im letzten Ruf des letzten Mammuts?" 🦣 Der schöne Text "Musica Universalis" von @DerekTurner1964 ist mit Erlaubnis der @EngelsbergIdeas auf Deutsch erschienen 🙏 https://t.co/2iKpUwwVWU
#aesthetic #natur #mensch
geistundgegenwart.de
Der Rest kommt (fast) von allein.
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Grateful to one of the most brilliant journalists, @edwest, for writing about my new book The Primate Myth. Today he included amusing observations taken from the book about an array of animal species, from loving dogs to sly crows and mourning elephants: https://t.co/i4XZcXIlLv.
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The birds are back, snacking on mealworms, peanuts and sunflower seeds - blackbird, blue tits, carrion crows, chaffinches, collared doves, goldfinches, greater spotted woodpecker, great tits, jackdaws, magpies, partridges, pheasants, pied wagtail, robins and wood pigeon
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The birds are back in the garden, snacking on mealworms, peanuts and sunflower seeds - blackbird, blue tits, carrion crows, chaffinches, collared doves, goldfinches, greater spotted woodpecker, great tits, jackdaws, magpies, partridges, pheasants, pied wagtail, robins and wood
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The birds are back in the garden, snacking on mealworms, peanuts and sunflower seeds - blackbird, blue tits, carrion crows, chaffinches, collared doves, goldfinches, greater spotted woodpecker, great tits, jackdaws, magpies, partridges, pheasants, pied wagtail, robins and wood
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Some contemplative reading from me for a Saturday morning about the ineffable mystery of silence and how Philip Gröning found a way to express it in film. Link in next post …
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New on the Writer’s Bookshelf this morning: eight questions about writers, books, and reading with the wonderful @ABRACKENBURY.
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We are currently upgrading our website. One of the new features is an interactive map of counties, with county info and even the current local weather! We plan to develop this further, but if you guys would check it out, we’d appreciate feedback so far: https://t.co/lxe3kWxVoN
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There is something otherworldly about a raven speaking in Russian.
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Have just sent the draft catalogue text for my English counties book... @RealCounties @UKCounties
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This clip has never felt more poignant. We will make you proud again boys, I promise.
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The craft of John le Carré | Malcolm Forbes https://t.co/lcNsUOe0QW
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He was a writer who created his own world, filled with lamplighters and scalphunters, babysitters and pavement artists.
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Going through several years of my photos (memory sticks, digital camera cards and hard copy) to find suitable illustrations for my English local identities book. Amazing how time-consuming that is, and how many places I had partly forgotten. Ah, the shortness of memory, and
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I once found this very touching inscription in a book: “This book belongs to Gillian Love, aged 7 8 10 12 60”
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