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The Reluctant Conformist 20(ending purified) - I, Magnus’s pneuma (πνεῦμα) visits the ‘Ever When’: The Finale made complete.
Manx Rover's Ramblings - September 02, 2022 01:00 - 16 minutesMagnus’s nascent pneuma is captivated and charmed, yet senses utter isolation at his first encounter with ‘Liminal Time’. His habitation of the ‘Present Tense’ is somewhat akin to reading the final page of a ‘Who-Done-It’. He knows whose throat was slit and by whom, but remains clueless of the W...
The Reluctant Conformist 18 & 19 (Chapter 10) should never have been divided into two episodes – here it is with truly thunderous TRUE IMPACT!
Manx Rover's Ramblings - August 30, 2022 23:00 - 20 minutesMagnus drifted through life with no defined purpose nor focused ambition. He enjoyed his own company and was perfectly content pursuing his current interests. One troublesome issue which dogged him throughout his life however, was the unwanted attention of others. These intrusions were generally...
The Reluctant Conformist 20 I, Magnus’s ‘πνέω’, visit the ‘Ever When’: The Finale.
Manx Rover's Ramblings - July 21, 2022 00:00 - 13 minutesMagnus’s nascent pneuma is captivated and charmed, yet senses utter isolation at his first encounter with ‘Liminal Time’. His habitation of the ‘Present Tense’ is somewhat akin to reading the final page of a ‘Who-Done-It’. He knows whose throat was slit and by whom, but remains clueless of the W...
The Reluctant Conformist 19 how swiftly life swings; elation to humiliation, celebrity to animosity?
Manx Rover's Ramblings - July 13, 2022 23:00 - 10 minutesCongested tension generates checkout mayhem and worse. He lay still, as though resting, as his father had done on Little Mill Road, Kerrowdhoo, on that chilly Saturday morning 1948.
The Reluctant Conformist 18 a stellar year full of ‘Great Expectations’.
Manx Rover's Ramblings - July 06, 2022 23:00 - 10 minutesSoothing noises were emanating from Paris concerning the authentication of Magnus’s Picasso plate. The French Canals looked promising as a lifestyle alternative to suburbia. Magnus never looked for trouble; it seemed to seek him out. Even the Saturday madhouse of a local supermarket provided i...
The Reluctant Conformist 17 “It’s not A Picasso; I believe it to be The Picasso!”
Manx Rover's Ramblings - June 29, 2022 22:00 - 11 minutes“Whilst perusing the Willie Leece photographs online(http://willieleece.blogspot.com), I noticed your other blog: Is this a Picasso?. (http://picassoceramic.blogspot.com) What the story?” “It’s a magnificent piece,” Dorothea enthused. “It’s even more wonderful than I imagined.”
The Reluctant Conformist 16 is this a Picasso? Magnus believed so. See for yourself: -(http://picassoceramic.blogspot.com)
Manx Rover's Ramblings - June 22, 2022 23:00 - 15 minutes“It reads like a Picasso. It’s right in its vocabulary; more painting than ceramic,” the Sotheby’s connoisseur affirmed enthusiastically, holding the plate securely in the crook of his arm. “It’s alive with his wit and playfulness. Where did you get it?” The Paris based Picasso Administration’s...
The Reluctant Conformist 15 a LOST MASTERPIECE (?), with Basque hospitality spiced up with chili peppers.
Manx Rover's Ramblings - June 15, 2022 23:00 - 14 minutesMeet our vibratingly sexy Sybil Fawlty lookalike landlady who instigated the ‘dookling foot’ episode. And: - At the back of the shop, on a chair seat, alongside a red rusty, two-metre-tall, cast iron Jesus sat a grubby heavily glazed ceramic plate which catapulted Magnus deeper into the secret...
The Reluctant Conformist 14, the McAulay’s sanctuary became Robin’s Croft in the postal district of Kerrowdhoo, Onchan Parish.
Manx Rover's Ramblings - June 08, 2022 22:00 - 15 minutesRobin’s Croft was a dilapidated seventeenth century stone cottage with the luxury of a cold water tap, but having no kitchen, gas, electricity nor sanitation. However, they’d survived the war and had a roof over their heads. For the first time four-year-old Magnus had a friend his own age. Andr...
The Reluctant Conformist 13 Magnus’s adventures along a coastal pilgrimage trail.
Manx Rover's Ramblings - June 02, 2022 22:00 - 16 minutesExtra Sensory Perception (ESP) may activate Arterial Fibrillation amongst susceptible pilgrims. A cubist inspired shrine in which 80year old Yoko Ono’s power of imagination shine. Magnus is one of millions who remain impacted by Hitler’s ambitions.
The Reluctant Conformist 12, an art exhibition by one of ‘His Majesty’s Most Loyal Enemy Alien’ WW II internees, sparks a treasure hunt for a missing masterpiece.
Manx Rover's Ramblings - May 25, 2022 22:00 - 12 minutesMagnus records the unique artistry of Willie Leece, the modest creator of a unique style of rural assemblage sculpture. The ‘Hedge’ art works of this quietly thoughtful Manx farmer are selected to be hung alongside a blockbuster travelling Tate Gallery exhibition for a giant of the twentieth c...
The Reluctant Conformist 11, our hero holds a joint art exhibition with a legendary Dadaist painter and Merz poet.
Manx Rover's Ramblings - May 18, 2022 23:00 - 14 minutesMagnus’s photographs preserve the singular contribution made to the world art scene by a modest Manx farmer’s unique creative flair. The incomparable and unrecognised ‘Hedge’ sculptures of Willie Leece are jointly exhibited with a giant of the twentieth century’s avant-garde art fraternity; a o...
The Reluctant Conformist (10) Singapore, a diluted Cherokee, marooned on a volcanic island, and a gorgeous apparition.
Manx Rover's Ramblings - May 11, 2022 22:00 - 12 minutesIt wasn’t all misery! The shore-side base was Singapore, and in the early 1970’s it remained a mysterious and exotic place to explore. The ancient DC3 bounded and skipped along the rough grass airstrip rapidly gathering speed. With an almighty explosion, the starboard propeller stopped dead,...
The Reluctant Conformist (9) an exploding oilrig, a shipping disaster, flaming seas, and entre the exotic Sophia Elizabeth.
Manx Rover's Ramblings - May 04, 2022 22:00 - 13 minutesMagnus lived under no delusions about his own importance. If he was injured or killed on the rig, he’d be flown ashore, immediately replaced, and just as quickly forgotten On shore leave, Magnus, at one of Darwin’s notorious ‘Late Nights’ dance parties met the mascara-eyed, choker-wearing, a...
The Reluctant Conformist (8) Elvis in the Sahara, offshore in the Adriatic, then Australia bound.
Manx Rover's Ramblings - April 27, 2022 23:00 - 13 minutesJust three weeks after leaving England, Magnus was bouncing across the Algerian Desert in the back of a long-wheel-based Land Rover. The vehicle was jam-packed with robed and turban clad Arabs and desert dwelling Berbers. Before heading Down Under, our hero enjoyed a stint aboard off-shore rigs...
The Reluctant Conformist (7) kismet’s gift; education as replacement for whale blubber on toast.
Manx Rover's Ramblings - April 20, 2022 22:00 - 11 minutesMagnus started work with Hawker Siddeley in the autumn of 1964. Providence, destiny, or mere chance guided Magnus to the greener pastures of aviation and away from a seafarer’s life toiling in the oppressive and claustrophobic hell-hole of ships engine rooms.
The Reluctant Conformist (7) kismet’s gift; education as replacement for whale blubber on toast.
Manx Rover's Ramblings - April 20, 2022 22:00 - 11 minutesMagnus started work with Hawker Siddeley in the autumn of 1964. Providence, destiny, or mere chance guided Magnus to the greener pastures of aviation and away from a seafarer’s life toiling in the oppressive and claustrophobic hell-hole of ships engine rooms.
The Reluctant Conformist (6) a whale of a time at Hamburg’s notorious dockside haunt, The Cabbage Patch.
Manx Rover's Ramblings - April 13, 2022 23:00 - 14 minutesAfter a stint in the dole queue, Magnus’s receives a new job offer. His potential employer was one of the biggest whaling companies in the world, with a blubber rendering slaughterhouse on the isolated island of South Georgia. This icy and windswept hell was located in the South Atlantic Ocean a...
The Reluctant Conformist (5) a seahorse attack and in Savannah, Georgia, all are warned: Beware! Moonshine Kills.
Manx Rover's Ramblings - April 10, 2022 07:00 - 16 minutesIt wasn’t only appearances that needed to be spruced-up to meet the required standard of the officers’ dining saloon; a sailor’s immune system also needed a booster. Magnus was pleased to benefit from the years of research into tetanus, cholera, yellow fever, typhoid and smallpox. In January 19...
The Reluctant Conformist (4) has his first encounter with the unknown.
Manx Rover's Ramblings - April 01, 2022 01:00 - 10 minutesMagnus subconsciously writes and star in his own erratic play. Act one exposes the dangers of self-reliance at the tender age of sixteen. Initially our ‘star’ opted for hedonism over applied scholarship, but fate intervenes to nudge him towards resurrection.
The Reluctant Conformist (3) prepares to take a leap into the unknown.
Manx Rover's Ramblings - March 24, 2022 23:00 - 12 minutesAfter failing to become a budding Field Marshal Montgomery understudy in the British Army, Magnus was obliged take a different tack. The call of the sea was in his blood, or so he was lead to believe. It looked as though a life on the ocean waves lay ahead, or was it a hazardous lee shore?
The Reluctant Conformist’s stoush with and wariness of, ‘Authority'.
Manx Rover's Ramblings - March 18, 2022 01:00 - 15 minutesFollowing the Army entrance exams, the aspirants, predominantly from privileged private schools, awaited their fate in a small conference room. When ‘Mr McAulay’ was called, Magnus followed the subaltern into a stark room that veritably crackled with razor-edged military crispness. The seeds...
The Reluctant Conformist 1 A Warrior’s Heritage Over Stated, or ‘Checkmate Granddad’.
Manx Rover's Ramblings - March 09, 2022 23:00 - 15 minutesApart from observing what those around him on the island did to earn a living, Magnus remained ignorant of what employment possibilities existed, what job requirements were, or what most professions entailed. Like everybody else, he didn’t know what he didn’t know, and didn’t even know that. Ma...
A Warrior’s Heritage Over Stated, or ‘Checkmate Granddad’.
Manx Rover's Ramblings - March 09, 2022 23:00 - 15 minutesApart from observing what those around him on the island did to earn a living, Magnus remained ignorant of what employment possibilities existed, what job requirements were, or what most professions entailed. Like everybody else, he didn’t know what he didn’t know, and didn’t even know that. Ma...
Coast to Coast 32: The End, or the Launch of a Laggard’s Literary Life?
Manx Rover's Ramblings - March 02, 2022 22:00 - 13 minutesThis is the FINAL episode of Retirement Blues Goodbye In wasn’t just the smell of the flowers; the enchantment of rolling hills, dales and moors; slow motion walking through torrential rain; being in good company; or breakfast with the ‘Mad Hatter’ that made our adventure worthwhile, it was ‘le...
Coast to Coast 31 the ‘End of the Line’ prize; a lifelong ‘Shot in the Arm’.
Manx Rover's Ramblings - February 24, 2022 00:00 - 15 minutesThe heavens, having rained themselves dry, radiated a pale greenish glow which brightened the tumbled stack of cottages that is Robin Hood’s Bay. The higgledy-piggledy houses appeared to cling limpet-like to the cliff face to prevent them sliding into the sea far below. That evening, near th...
Coast to Coast 30. a Yorkshire ‘monsoon’: shiveringly cold, but Heaven on Earth to the devout rambler.
Manx Rover's Ramblings - February 16, 2022 22:00 - 14 minutesSuddenly a mighty squall was upon us. A lashing headwind drove raindrops straight at us. Rain on the face and the curiously comforting staccato drumming of heavy raindrops on the tight fitting hood, close against my ears, gave the final day a hint of the surreal. It was like main-streaming Morse...
Coast to Coast 29 to Littlebeck Farm where we dined like Epicurean gods.
Manx Rover's Ramblings - February 11, 2022 02:00 - 16 minutesGetting lost wasn’t easy, but we did. After a wretched time battling the quagmire of bog holes and waist high tussock grass, we arrived where we started, and, knowing the place for the second time, found the path almost immediately. Dinner was a rare and incomparable experience. Perhaps an o...
Coast to Coast 28 Glaisdale, Whitby, Dracula, wild salmon reminiscent of Claude Jeremiah Greengrass.
Manx Rover's Ramblings - February 03, 2022 04:00 - 11 minutesThe trek from The Lion Inn to Glaisdale was the shortest section we’d walked and so we had time for a little sightseeing at the North Sea fishing port of Whitby. This seaside town is high on the tourist must visit list, not only for its crispy cod and chips, but also thanks to a notorious visito...
Coast to Coast 27 an eerie stroll by Yorkshire’s Fat Betty towards Great Fryup Lane.
Manx Rover's Ramblings - January 26, 2022 23:00 - 10 minutesThere was no need for sunscreen this morning. The besieging mist limited visibility with a veil of damp greyness that chilled the face and numbed the hands. The opaque blanket clung low to the soggy earth squeezing the acrid stench of marsh gas between its folds. All sound was stifled, like the ...
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