The hole in the wall
A little boy looks into a dry stone wall and imagines who might inhabit it. Poem with illustrations. A6 softback (postcard size) 24 pages.
Words and illustrations by Ann Perrin
Produced by The Dry Stone Walling Education ProjectThe Puppeteers Daughter
The poems explore the complexity of life as the daughter of marionette makers and performers. There are poems concerned with life, love and loss, also the seaside, artists, allotments and the eccentricities of life.
Buy now - £6.60Don’t Throw Away the Daisies (illustrated)
Ann’s poetry covers the big topics of love and death with originality. Take for instance the title poem which is full of surprises yet also wonderfully poignant.
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The puppets that went to the Palace and moving to Eastbourne!
Buckingham Palace In the early 50s my parents were invited to entertain the Queen, Prince Charles, Princess Anne and their friends. We had clowns, a puppet circus, a white rabbit from Alice in Wonderland, a garden ballet, singers, dancers … Continue reading
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Original Christmas gifts in Rottingdean – coffee and amazing cake!
Pop into the Open Art Cafe in Rottindean for an Aladdin’s Cave of original Christmas gifts, Each one made by local arts and crafts people. While you are thinking about it all, you can also treat … Continue reading
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Rottingdean’s wild and windy sea …
Rottingdean’s beach last Sunday was covered with all kinds of curious seaweed. Here and there a slipper shell and a few wrinkled crab husks their undersides a bright sky blue. Further along there was a pearly white well worn oyster … Continue reading
Miss Lottie’s Allotment
Of course the poem that follows is based on fact! My mother fell in love with an allotment in South London over 15 years or so ago and it became the highlight of her retirement. I worked on … Continue reading
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A Sad Goodbye to Farthings
– after twenty years. Not that anyone has ever been able to buy something for the old currency of a farthing but what a lovely place this has been. … Continue reading
Signs of an early Spring on Beacon Hill.
Rottingdean Windmill, ‘where sheep may safely graze’ and the new … Continue reading
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Tagged Beacon Hill, Beacon Hill Nature Reserve, Beacon Hub Kiosk Cafe, Brighton, Cheer yourself up on a dull day, Clouds, Nature Reserve in Brighton, Phootgraphy, Rottingdean, Rottingdean's Windmill, Sheep may safely graze
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The Undercliff Walk
When I am bereft of words the natural world then fills the gap.
The last of the summer …
in Brighton, Hove. Rottingdean, Saltdean and on the wonderful Weald Allotment …
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The Ragged Phoenix Morris in Rottingdean
Well it was St George’s Day Celebations and the Queen Vic in Rottingdean had pulled out all the stops. There was the wonderful Imogen and her jazz group, a visit from retired greyhounds. Later the Copper family folk … Continue reading
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Rottingdean’s Art club
A new exhibition at the Grange Art Gallery and Museum from artists that attend Rottingdean’s Art Club. Neatly hung and with a variety of dynamic and interesting work which includes some hand painted prints. Rottingdean Arts Club is currently looking … Continue reading
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