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Brunch is often something decadent that should be reserved for lazy
weekends. But what if brunch could be an everyday treat without the
indulgence? Good Mornings is full of beautiful options that are as
good for you as they are delicious. Featuring gorgeous, simple
recipes, these dishes are all refined-sugar free, mostly vegetarian
and packed with vegan, dairy-free and gluten-free options. With
chapters focusing on fruits, vegetables, drinks, baking, eggs and
grains, there's no reason every morning shouldn't be a Good
Morning.
"Even So reveals the extent to which Mark Roper's move from the UK
to the Kilkenny countryside in 1980 has liberated his imagination
and, by allowing him to report on lived, day-to-day experience,
helped him to become an extraordinarily distinguished 'nature
poet'-or, perhaps the better term, 'poetic naturalist'. Ireland's
gift to the poet has been an environment that is still relatively
unspoiled, and continues to permit ancient harmonious relationships
between land-working humans and the birds, beasts, woodland, pools
and pastures with which their lives interweave. Roper's gift to his
adopted home, and to the great poetic tradition of 'nature writing'
in these islands, is laid out here, in this wonderfully varied
miscellany of new work and selections from his earlier volumes." -
Carol Rumens, from the Introduction
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Bindweed (Paperback)
Mark Roper
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R446
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Discovery Miles 2 360
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"Mad Max" meets "Blue Velvet" It's 2026. The world has suffered
massive depravation; man has been exposed to the wrath of a solar
storm. Mother Nature has dealt her ace. Transportation as we know
it, communication as we know it, no longer exist. Extinction
approaches. Has God abandoned man as well? Can one man prevail over
human perversity in extremis? Can love prevail in a dog eat dog
existence? The solar storm lasted for eight months. Those that
survived nature's warning, mainly the young, managed to migrate.
The elderly were less fortunate. They were left abandoned to live
in sweltering heat and forced to recreate a past life that is void
of a baby's cry. Can two separate communities where dying has
become an industry continue to survive? The disillusioned Reverend
Dickinson shepherds his ageing community by false-hope, whilst, a
few miles away, Trader barters life for death using a macabre
reminder of the past to gain economic superiority. In the midst
stands the beautiful young woman, Danya. Protected by her shotgun
wielding, abrasive mother, Danya is the only remaining hope of
escaping the poverty and aridness that surround them all. Into this
environment, a young man arrives accompanied by Dog, a scavenger of
the sky. Joe communicates with the dead and is able to learn the
secrets of the past and, consequently, change the future.He is
gifted with the ability to use his internal, positive energy to
traverse the often hostile and tempremental gap in time left
between life and death.Every moment Joe spends in the past is a
personal sacrifice and what he dangerously learns may, or may not,
agree with the insatiability of those around him. "I am Dog. It is
not because he fears pain that he bites into the leather, but for
the fear of past horrors and being forever entrapped by them."
A compelling collection of stories reflecting an adolescent's
memories of an unconventional upbringing in Southern Africa during
the 1960's. Allowed to roam the veldt under the protective wing of
the Swazi Warrior, Mabuza, the boy's journey is merged with humour,
witticisms, anecdotes and insights from having to navigate the
potholes that are left behind by the abrupt disappearance of his
father. From learning how to walk with bare feet and how to deal
with the unorthodox teaching methods of Meneer Gerber, the reader
is transported into a boy's world where dreams triumph over
reality. Set under the bigness of the African sky, the stories are
pivoted by the boy's imagining of his father convalescing in a
distant hospital, where a natural remedy might be the potion for us
all. "I wanted to put up my hand and ask if God's car had any
gears, especially a reverse gear. I was thinking that a reverse
gear would be a good idea for God's car because if there were any
mistakes to be fixed, God could just reverse over the mistakes and
then drive forward again. This way He could repair the mistakes and
make certain they never occurred again. But I did not ask. But I
know I must." Mabuza once told me that if there are holes in the
road you often travel, stop and fill them in, for this will help
the man travelling behind you.
"Mad Max" meets "Blue Velvet" It's 2026. The world has suffered
massive deprivation; man has been exposed to the wrath of a solar
storm. Mother Nature has dealt her ace. Transportation as we know
it, communication as we know it, no longer exist. Extinction
approaches. Has God abandoned man as well? Can one man prevail over
human perversity in extremis? Can love prevail in a dog eat dog
existence? The solar storm lasted for eight months. Those that
survived nature's warning, mainly the young, managed to migrate.
The elderly were less fortunate. They were left abandoned to live
in sweltering heat and forced to recreate a past life that is void
of a baby's cry. Can two separate communities where dying has
become an industry continue to survive? The disillusioned Reverend
Dickinson shepherds his ageing community by false-hope, whilst, a
few miles away, Trader barters life for death using a macabre
reminder of the past to gain economic superiority. In the midst
stands the beautiful young woman, Danya. Protected by her shotgun
wielding, abrasive mother, Danya is the only remaining hope of
escaping the poverty and aridness that surround them all. Into this
environment, a young man arrives accompanied by Dog, a scavenger of
the sky. Joe communicates with the dead and is able to learn the
secrets of the past and, consequently, change the future.He is
gifted with the ability to use his internal, positive energy to
traverse the often hostile and temperamental gap in time left
between life and death.Every moment Joe spends in the past is a
personal sacrifice and what he dangerously learns may, or may not,
agree with the insatiability of those around him. "I am Dog. It is
not because he fears pain that he bites into the leather, but for
the fear of past horrors and being forever entrapped by them."
Opening and closing with poems that describe what he calls a
river's 'breath', Mark Roper's collection develops his reputation
as one of the most admired nature poets of his generation.
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