ABC Wednesday Index

I’ve been doing ABC Wednesday posts for a while now, both on this blog and on my other one Margaret’s Miscellany (which I’ve practically abandoned for a while at least). This is an index to posts on both blogs:

A

• Alexander Selkirk – the inspiration for Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe
• Is it Autumn Already? – posted in August
• The Artist’s House at Argenteuil by Claude Monet

B

• Beata Beatrix by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
• Berwick Bridges – about the three bridges across the River Tweed at Berwick-upon-Tweed
• British Writers since 1945 –  the Sunday Times list of €œThe 50 Greatest British Writers Since 1945.€ A good choice for a Book Lover on a Book Blog.

C

• Castles – a post showing photos and a Turner painting of Norham Castle
• Chaffinch – photos of chaffinches in our garden
• Susan Coolidge – the author of the Katy books
• Corfe Castle, near Wareham in Dorset

D

• Degas – The Dance Class and L’Absinthe
• Dickens – my thoughts on a few of Charles Dickens’s books
• Dyce – the Scottish artist William Dyce’s painting Pegwell Bay, Kent

E

• Enid Blyton – a childhood favourite
• Extra Exercise – walking son’s greyhounds

F

• The Fighting Temeraire by J M W Turner
• The Floor Planers by Gustave Caillebotte was a French Impressionist artist
• Fuchsia – one of my favourite flowers

G

• Gauguin and Van Gogh
• George VI

H

• Hardy – Thomas Hardy & his poem Hap 
• Hunt – William Hunt, an English watercolourist

I

• Irises by Vincent Van Gogh

J

• the Jabberwock – Lewis Carroll’s poem Jabberwocky
• Jigsaw

K

• Kindle – wondering whether to get one – I did
• Kingsolver – Barbara Kingsolver – The Poisonwood Bible

L

• Long Jump – a virtual leap on Kinect
• Love – a poem by Leo Marks
• L S Lowry & the Lowry Trail (Lowry was  English painter well known for his urban paintings of industrial towns)

M

• Manet – Edouard Manet, one of the French Impressionists &  A Bar at the Folies Bergère
• Mushrooms  – found in the garden

N

• the Nun’s Prayer – on how to age gracefully
• Nutcracker –  a 30 foot high mechanical sculpture in The Core at the Eden Project in Cornwall

O

• On the Balcony – a painting by Berthe Morisot, one of the French Impressionists
• Orion – the constellation named after The Hunter in Greek mythology

P

• Peter Rabbit and Beatrix Potter
• Pissaro, French Impressionist Painter
• Plenty of things – Pisa, Parthenon, Pavlova, Pie and Pet (Lucy)

Q

• Queues

R

• Ravensheugh Sands, East Lothian
• Reflections & rowing boats on the River Tweed
• Renoir – Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841 €“ 1919), French Impressionist artist & his painting La Loge (1874)

S

• Secondhand Books – Barter Books in Alnwick
• Sisley – Alfred Sisley, an English Impressionist landscape artist & his painting Small Meadows in Spring (c.1881)
• Smailholm Tower

T

• Teddy Bears – my collection of miniature teddy bears
• Tryfan – the 14th highest peak in Wales at 3010 feet

U

• Unfinished – a jigsaw & Ulysses
• Unripe – cherries & plums in the garden

V

• Velocipede – a bicycle, thought to be the oldest bicycle in the world, made about 1845 on display in the Glasgow Museum of Transport
• Victorian Literature Reading challenge
• Vincent – Vincent Van Gogh’s painting Church at Auvers-sur-Oise

W

• Woodcock
• Work – painting by Ford Madox Brown

X

Y

• Yew Trees in Painswick€™s churchyard
• Young Man at the Window by Gustave Caillebotte

Z