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
pferguson | May 6, 2020
The Sweet Sound that Calls Every once in a while we are able to step outside the shade and into the light. I enjoy seeing little suggestions turned by creative minds into joy and laughter. Two recent ideas have proven popular and with each day in the shade I continue to try and cast a […]
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Tags: Alonenessness, Connection, COVID-19, Dark, Dreamers, Family, Film History, Light, Lovers, Rainbow, Rainbow Connection, Shade, Soundtracks, Storytelling, The Muppet Movie
pferguson | May 5, 2020
The serious lack of food… In a few days time, 8 May 2020, the 75th anniversary of VE Day will be recognized. Prior to the declaration of peace, a ceasefire was established at 0800 HRS 5 May 1945. The people of the Netherlands were so very grateful to their Canadian liberators. The occupation of the […]
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Tags: British Empire Medal, Bronze Cross, Canadian Infantry Corps, Charles Foulkes, Corps of Military Staff Clerks, Cross of Merit, Food, Francis Roy Weatherdon, Humanitarian, John Eric Forbes, Leonard Hood, Netherlands, Operation Chowhound, Operation Manna, Order of Orange-Nassau, Philip Henry Tedman, Refeeding Syndrome, Rex Cowan, Royal Air Force, Royal Canadian Air Force, Royal Canadian Army Service Corps, Royal Canadian Artillery, Royal Canadian Engineers, Starvation, United States Army Air Force, VE Day, William Charles Conoche, William Preston Gilbride, William Scott Murdoch, William Smith Ziegler
pferguson | May 3, 2020
Remembered A solitary grass and flower muncher ambles across the road from one yard to the next. Unperturbed by the white painted fence it approaches and without the leaping gait of a high jumper, this fleet of foot one, simply springs from a standing position across the obstacle. Then turning its head, to look at […]
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Tags: 3 May 1917, 31st Canadian Infantry Battalion, COVID-19, Family, Fresnoy, Hazel Dougan (nee Berget), Ole Berget, Remembrance, Vimy Memorial
