Julian Wild

Just finished the highly-acclaimed debut novel #TheNames by #FlorenceKnapp. It’s a very original & fascinating idea for a novel. Thought-provoking & memorable📚👏

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Just finished #Kala, the much-acclaimed, ambitious debut novel by Irish writer, Colin Walsh. Probably not one to be featured by Ireland.com as it is dark & quite grim but well-written & plenty to admire🎧📚
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Delighted to be reminded that we are into ‘no mow May’ which has relieved me of the task of mowing the lawn for another month. Philip Larkin would regretfully have approved (‘The Mower’)😢 🦔

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Joyce’s prose is such a delight and beautifully read by Andrew Scott. Enjoyed it on my drive home from Birmingham tonight🙂📚🎧https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/b09t89gc?partner=uk.co.bbc

My favourite castle. This time in November #Dunnottar

David Biespiel Podcast Episode · Tiny In All That Air · 28/02/2025 · 1h

I Remember, I Remember and Talking In Bed discussed in some detail and some fascinating thoughts on US and British poetry from our guest David Biespiel this month. Please have a listen. It's free and you don't need to subscribe.

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Tynemouth station

The beach at Tynemouth

The Collingwood monument

Tynemouth Priory

Gorgeous day doing a ‘Spy Trail’ around Tynemouth with my daughter & her children. 3 hours’ walking!

Just completed 27 hours of listening to a brilliant narration of James Joyce’s Ulysses. An amazing listen which I really enjoyed. Hilarious in parts. Stream of consciousness & remarkably contemporary🎧🙂📚

Lovely lunch of Grimsby haddock at Five Bells, Bassingham near Lincoln🙂🍽️🍺 Interesting poster of Lincoln Races!

Been walking with 🐶🎃 at the King George V Playing Fields (‘recreation ground’) in Cottingham, setting for Philip Larkin’s poignant poem ‘Afternoons’. Here are the ‘swing and sandpit’ (or equivalent)🙂📚

Today is the 33rd anniversary of the death of my father, Eric Wild, known to the family as Bill & to work colleagues at Shell & BP as Jimmy. He spent 3 1/2 years as a Japanese PoW on the Burma Railway. He was a wonderful man & always in my thoughts🥲

Final result for the beech tree’s haircut. Very smart 🙂🌳

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Very impressive work by the tree surgeon reducing our huge beech tree. Amazing how he can shape the tree from that high up. It was very cold all day🥶👏

Finished Robert Harris’s excellent #Munich. It starts with a quote from historian FW Maitland (1850-1906) “We should always be aware that what now lies in the past once lay in the future”. The way the ‘superpowers’ sought to carve up Czechoslovakia in 1938 should be a stark reminder for Ukraine🇺🇦

Just finished Robert Harris’s ‘An Officer And A Spy’. I studied the Dreyfus Affair at school but this is a remarkable retelling of the political scandal which divided French society😳📚🇫🇷

I’ve taken pictures like this a hundred times but being with Pumpkin on a beautiful sunny day down by the Humber, with the bridge beyond, always gladdens my heart. This was today😍🐶🎃

Today would have been the 79th wedding anniversary of my parents, Eric & Daphne Wild, married OTD in 1946 at St James’s Piccadilly after my father returned from 3 1/2 years as a Japanese PoW. Miss them very much🥲

Just finished Robert Harris’s latest novel #Precipice Extraordinary story of the relationship between HH Asquith & Venetia Stanley before and during WW1. Highly recommended📕👍

Pumpkin enjoying the sun & the snowdrops on a Spring-like February Sunday. Lovely day😎🐶🎃

The Midnight Library Check out this great listen on Audible.com. THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING WORLDWIDE PHENOMENON READERS' MOST LOVED BOOK OF 2021 WINNER OF THE GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD FOR FICTION Nora's life ...

Just finished the very popular #TheMidnightLibrary nicely read by the excellent #CareyMulligan Thought-provoking & interesting idea but a bit disappointing www.audible.co.uk/pd/183885145...

Argentinian Malbec. Sadly not my own brand but pretty good value🙂🍷🇦🇷

Pumpkin a bit wind-swept on our walk today😐🎃🐶💨

Red sky in the morning😳

Barbara Pym, novelist and friend of Philip Larkin, died this day in 1980. Larkin was a huge admirer of Pym's work. On 18th March 1979 he wrote to her saying 'no-one can read you without wanting to read more'. Please have a look at barbarapym.org for more Pym delight.

Walking down from the old railway line to the playing fields at Anlaby. Beautiful day but only 2 degrees & the ground still frozen🥶❄️🐶🎃

"Monica and Philip 1" 2021 (Monica Jones and Philip Larkin)
John Welsh
English Artist
Oil on Canvas
28 inches x 26 inches
Private Collection

#art #painting #painters

Our deputy chair Lyn Lockwood and London based artist D J Roberts checking out Larkin's plaque at King's Cross this week. D J's Larkin inspired prints are available at PhilipLarkin.com.

Sad tale of the demise of racing at Phoenix Park. Another racecourse I would love to have gone to x.com/horsevault/s...