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Category Archives: Creativity

Covid Tales (xiv): Seven Years On, No Songs Of Praise Shall Be Sung This Summer

June 20, 2020by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

(Ballycastle beach, 20/6/20)   Exactly seven years ago the first proper blog post on emeraldscribe was published. It seems a lifetime ago, and yet it is quite apt and timely […]

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Beauty, Christian, Creativity, faith, Mental Health, northern ireland, Photography, prayer, Spirituality, Writing

Covid Tales 2020 (xiii) : The End Of The World As We Know It?

June 14, 2020by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

  Just over three months ago today, the world as we knew it ended for me personally, and within a couple of weeks, most of you too. I flew home from […]

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Beauty, Christian, Coronavirus, Creativity, faith, Mental Health, Spirituality

Covid Tales (xi): Generational Stillness

May 9, 2020by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

HERE’S AN over 100-year-old Irish oak chair I had the priviledge of restoring this past week or so of further pandemic lockdown in Northern Ireland. It was thrown out for […]

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Beauty, Christian, Coronavirus, Creativity, peace, Spirituality

Covid 2020 Tales (viii): How the pallet progressed…

April 18, 2020by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

ALMOST forgot to post before the week is out.  In the interests of integrity because I said I would, here’s a wee visual of how the pallet effort progressed yesterday. […]

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Creativity, Spirituality

Covid 2020 Tales (vii) : Pandemic-inspired Pallet Creation Continued

April 16, 2020by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

So here we are. The UK has been in “lockdown” now since over 3 weeks ago, and today the almost inevitable happened, as Boris Johnson’s number 2 in charge, Dominic Raab, […]

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Coronavirus, Creativity, northern ireland, Spirituality, Thankfulness

Covid 2020 Tales (vi): Fresh Creativity

April 15, 2020by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

THERE’S so much I could write about the last 10 days, in this covid-19 pandemic lockdown, but I’m going to refrain myself in this post. I will say here that I’m […]

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Coronavirus, Creativity, Spirituality

Sunday Scribe: Rediscovering Bone Broth

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Let’s talk about bone broth.  (Not the kind of article you were perhaps expecting, but variety is the spice of life and all that).  As I continue to recover from […]

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Creativity, Cuisine, Culture, Food, northern ireland, Spirituality, Winter, Writing

Sixteen Weeks

August 8, 2018by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

Sixteen weeks on from the Redding accident I decided to vulnerably share about in April, the sun is gratefully able to be felt once again on my skin. Time can […]

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Beauty, California, Christian, Creativity, faith, honesty, northern ireland, passion, prayer, Spirituality, summer, Travel, USA, vulnerability, Writing

Back home…

July 21, 2018by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

This time last week I was in Krakow. Now I’m back home. This week’s Summer blog post is a simple photograph depicting home for me, in rural, agricultural Northern Ireland. Beautiful […]

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Beauty, Creativity, northern ireland, Photography, Spirituality

40 days in the Wilderness

July 14, 2018by emeraldscribe 2 Comments

Not sure if it’s obvious where I’m writing this from. Some of the more astute of you may recognise and realize this to be Krakow. Today is my 40th day […]

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Creativity, honesty, Photography, Poland, prayer, Spirituality, summer, Writing

The last normal Tuesday

June 12, 2018by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

EIGHT weeks ago tonight was my last ever evening riding my trusty moped in Redding, California. It offered a practical, fun and highly economic solution to the lack of public […]

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California, Creativity, passion, Spirituality, Travel, USA, Writing

Advent Home: Final post

December 23, 2017by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

This will be my last post of the year, before closing the laptop for 2017 and enjoying Christmas mostly away from technology. I have driven home from Northern California to […]

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Beauty, Christmas, Creativity, northern ireland, Photography, Spirituality, USA, Winter

Advent photo series (USA) 7 & 8:

December 21, 2017by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

This was meant to be uploaded and posted yesterday, but technical issues prevented it, so here goes again, two for today. Two more from passing through San Francisco last week: […]

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Beauty, California, Creativity, Photography, Travel, USA

Advent (USA): 6

December 19, 2017by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

Now home for the festive period, I am deliberately posting some photographs and posts provoked by my recent time in USA. Today’s is from last week in San Francisco…. Having […]

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California, Christmas, Creativity, Photography, Spirituality, Travel, USA, Winter

Home Advent 4:

December 12, 2017by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

Reflections on my summer pictures continued…number 4… Enjoy! (Dunluce Castle sunset, North Coast of Northern Ireland, in July 2017). copyright L. Dunlop

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Beauty, Creativity, northern ireland, Photography, Spirituality

Advent in Redding, California

December 10, 2017by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

I am still in Northern California, and soon to be travelling home, but for now, here are some fresh pictures from a very mild Redding, Ca. this afternoon. Enjoy!   […]

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Beauty, California, Christmas, Creativity, Spirituality

Advent Home: 1

December 5, 2017by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

Over the rest of December, as I prepare for going back home, I will be posting at least a few random posts about Northern Ireland, photographs or otherwise. This will […]

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Beau, Creativity, northern ireland, Photography, Spirituality

Pondering Prague: One year on

December 5, 2017by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

Hot off the heals of my last post about Eureka, USA, I am tonight remembering this time last year, when I was blessed to be in Prague, Czech Republic, in […]

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Beau, Christian, Christmas, Creativity, Czech Republic, Photography, Spirituality, Winter

Further Thanksgiving Weekend Beauty

November 29, 2017by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

Autumn ( Fall) is still very much alive and well here in Northern California. These were taken during Thanksgiving break last week. Simple local beauty.   Stunning dusk skies last […]

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Beauty, California, Creativity, Spirituality

Whitetails and Open Skies

August 15, 2017by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

AFTER a semi-conscious break from posting anything on social media in recent months, I felt to write a wee random blog article this week.   I’ve just had a quietly […]

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Christian, Creativity, Spirituality

Example of my feature writing: American national magazine, ‘Reptiles’, marketed as the World’s biggest reptile magazine, published across USA March/April 2017

April 17, 2017by emeraldscribe Leave a comment
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Creativity, freelance feature articles, USA

Donegal January beauty

February 2, 2017by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

I took an intentional break from blogging and social media activity for the past 6 weeks, and may do so again during lent if not beyond, but this past week […]

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Beauty, Christian, Coffee, Creativity, Photography, Spirituality, Travel

Final Dark Beauty at Christmas…

December 21, 2016by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

This will be my final post of this year, and potentially thereafter. I haven’t firmly decided yet. As I always say, ‘I have a love-hate relationship with social media.’ I […]

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Beauty, Christmas, Creativity, faith, peace, Photography, Spirituality, Winter, Writing

Not bad for the shortest day of the year

December 21, 2016by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

21st December in the northern hemisphere isn’t renowned for glorious sunny days, but today is a crisp, cold sunny one in the North Coast of Northern Ireland, so I thought […]

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Beauty, Creativity, northern ireland, Photography, Spirituality

Some further festive Prague pics:

December 17, 2016by emeraldscribe Leave a comment

These were taken two weeks ago, on a weekend in Czech Republic:   Above: Wenceslas Square,Prague,  Astronomical Clock Below: One of the many Christmas markets in Prague Old town   […]

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Beauty, Creativity, Culture, Czech Republic, Photography, Spirituality, Travel, Winter

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