pferguson | January 16, 2021
Pen and Key The quiet suggests a slight hint of echo within my ears. They too…like all of self are searching, my mind races towards an endless sea of pages, facing not upwards but viewed from their edges. Within the constant turning only the blur of ideas. No story…no pictures…only endless notes posted haphazard to […]
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Tags: Andrew Stanton, COVID-19, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Film, John Carter, Music, Storytelling, The 39 Steps, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The Red Baron, U-2, V for Vendetta
pferguson | November 11, 2020
2020-11-11 My dear soldier friend, Again, I see you upon the high ground ever watchful. Each year we visit. Your sharp-eyed gaze has again passed across these horizons a hundred tens of thousands of times…Your watch… infinite…embedded within you, all that have passed, all here this day and all you know who will follow…this due…to […]
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Tags: 11 November 2020, Peace, Poppies, Remembrance Day, Rose, Victoria War Memorial, Vigil
pferguson | September 25, 2020
1860 – 1900 (excluding the Second Boer War 1899-1902) Following the Indian Mutiny or Sepoy Mutiny, British soldiers and sailors found themselves deeply involved in colonial battles across the British Empire. The “pink” of the globe was well known to students and diplomats of Empire, so too the gun and cannon of powerful, organized troops […]
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Tags: Afghanistan, Ashanti, Bhutan (Bootan), British Empire, Burma, Charles James William Grant VC, Dargai Heights, Donald Macintyre VC, George Frederick Findlater VC, George Sellar VC, Herbert Stephen Henderson VC, India, James Dundas VC, John Cook VC, John Leishman McDougall VC, John MacKenzie VC DCM, Kabul, Lushai, Matabeleland, Mutiny, Peiwar Kotal, Piper George Findlater VC, Queen Victoria's Little Wars, Rebellion, Samuel McGaw VC, Sir John Carstairs McNeill VC GCVO KCB KCMG, Taku Forts, Waikato, William Henry Dick-Cunyngham VC, William John Vousden VC CB
pferguson | July 26, 2020
Complications and Anticipations A chance encounter with the unfamiliar…a Sheffield Billiken lends itself for today’s discussion of the film series Parade’s End. Based on four books written by Ford Madox Ford the novels are: Some Do Not (1924), No More Parades (1925), A Man Could Stand Up (1926) and Last Post (1928). The tetralogy visits […]
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Tags: Artillery, Benedict Cumberbatch, Billiken, Bliss Carman, Film History, Florence Pretz, Ford Madox Ford, Fumsup, Groby Tree, Lincolnshire Imp, Parade's End, St. Anthony
pferguson | May 23, 2020
Three People Never Having Met Beneath the sky, the moon – the sun – this ground, this coast, valley, or ridge. Along the long, long trail that is our path through Gully Ravine – or our crest at Lone Pine. I return this day to wanderings across places of conflict and to now distant interests. […]
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Tags: Australia, Border Regiment, Charles Davies Vaughan DSO, Conflict, Dreamtime, Film History, Follow the Sun, Galipoli, Gully Ravine, Inscription, Lyrics, Nottinghamshire, Peter Hart Battlefield Tours, Peter Weir, Pink Farm Cemetery, Rainbows, Russell Crowe, Soundtracks, The Water Diviner, W Beach, Water, Xavier Rudd