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Tim Atkinson: Opera properer
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Monday, 27 April 2015. A conversation about opera with a friend who cheerfully admits 'not getting it' promoted an introspective moment wondering what it is I get about it. I haven't always got it. And there are still things k don't - like overlong recits, for example, or sets that contort the singers into ridiculous, semi-hidden poses. You'll be hearing it for the first time in context, sung beautifully and with what should be a wonderful orchestral accompaniment.i almost guarantee you'll be bowled ...
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Tim Atkinson: What do you do all day, daddy?
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Thursday, 5 February 2015. What do you do all day, daddy? Some of which you can also. Tiny Acorns £8.99. Writing Therapy £6.99. What do you do all day, daddy? Blogito, ergo sum! View my complete profile. Travel template. Powered by Blogger.
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Tim Atkinson: April 2015
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Monday, 27 April 2015. A conversation about opera with a friend who cheerfully admits 'not getting it' promoted an introspective moment wondering what it is I get about it. I haven't always got it. And there are still things k don't - like overlong recits, for example, or sets that contort the singers into ridiculous, semi-hidden poses. You'll be hearing it for the first time in context, sung beautifully and with what should be a wonderful orchestral accompaniment.i almost guarantee you'll be bowled ...
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Tim Atkinson: July 2014
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Thursday, 24 July 2014. He is not missing. I'm writing a book on the first war. (Who isn't. or hasn't? But - and it's a big but - mine is about the aftermath, the immediate aftermath, when France and Belgium were slowly rebuilding and first the Army followed by the (then) Imperial War Graves Commission were burying and reburying thousands and thousands of bodies and slowly creating the vast memorial cemeteries that are now such a universal symbol of the human cost of war. In the meantime, the monuments t...
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Tim Atkinson: February 2015
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Thursday, 5 February 2015. What do you do all day, daddy? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Some of which you can also. Tiny Acorns £8.99. Writing Therapy £6.99. What do you do all day, daddy? Blogito, ergo sum! View my complete profile. Travel template. Powered by Blogger.
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Tim Atkinson: November 2013
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Wednesday, 20 November 2013. Hull named UK City of Culture 2017. I grew up in Hull; I left at the age of nine but returned aged nineteen to study at the city's university. It's a very special city and I know of no other city quite like it. The sea, of course, is what made Hull. Lining up at the end of break at Appleton Road Primary School if the wind was in the right (or wrong) direction you could smell the fish docks. Fishing, fish and fisherman were the beating heart of Hull. Apart from Larkin (and a h...
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Tim Atkinson: September 2014
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Wednesday, 17 September 2014. A letter from the Archbishop of Canterbury about Palestine. There's a whole lot of stuff I have to blog about at present (like product reviews, opinions, plugs, books and much more) but I can't, at the moment, consider writing about anything other than this:. Which is a tad tricky, when you think about it. Because, quite frankly, it leaves me speechless! And that (above) is what he got. Quite apart from the fact that the Archbishop of Canterbury is a member of the British Es...
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Tim Atkinson: Known unto God
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Friday, 22 May 2015. The cover of my latest book is here. It's only a draft but seeing it at least makes you realise that the book itself - and three years labour - is at last closer to becoming genuine, physical reality. It's about the Great War. Here's the blurb. And you can read the first three chapters - and leave a comment should you want to - here. I'd love to know what you think. And what secrets remain to be discovered on the abandoned battlefields of Flanders? Some of which you can also.
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Tim Atkinson: May 2015
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Friday, 22 May 2015. The cover of my latest book is here. It's only a draft but seeing it at least makes you realise that the book itself - and three years labour - is at last closer to becoming genuine, physical reality. It's about the Great War. Here's the blurb. And you can read the first three chapters - and leave a comment should you want to - here. I'd love to know what you think. And what secrets remain to be discovered on the abandoned battlefields of Flanders? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Tim Atkinson: Time Flies!
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Sunday, 14 September 2014. Especially on this day in 1752 when Britain changed from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar. If you'd gone to bed last night a little over 260 years ago it would've been September 2nd. Then, at dawn this morning, it's suddenly the 14th September and you're 12 days older than you were the night before! Except you aren't, of course: not really. Only the names (in this case, the numbers) have been changed. All of which brings home how artificial this human construct, 'time', is.