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Amelia Marriette

Nov 10, 2019
3 min

Movie Time in Malvern, Worcestershire

The beauty of Malvern Hills. A short film to celebrate that beauty.

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Amelia Marriette

5 days ago
2 min

How is Zoom helping authors? Jackie Baker talks to Amelia Marriette author of Walking into Alchemy

The first in a series of virtual interviews -

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Amelia Marriette

May 15
6 min

Can gardening change anything? 7 reasons to get gardening!

My father, an artist, preferred form, retrained colour, order and symmetry, my mother wanted a garden filled with a riot of competing colour

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Amelia Marriette

Apr 29
3 min

How can I make more of my store cupboard during a lockdown?

Inventing new dishes with store cupboard ingredients. Image shows the ingredients to make aromatic Egyptian Baharat spice.

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Amelia Marriette

Apr 20
5 min

How can I achieve flow? How can I learn to live in the moment?

Watercolour, 1945, by my father Leonard Eason.As an artist living through difficult times he took great comfort in looking closely at nature

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Amelia Marriette

Mar 30
5 min

Can I really eat dandelions?

Looking at the humble dandelion and celebrating its beauty and many culinary uses.

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Amelia Marriette

Mar 18
3 min

How many previous lives have you had?

An in-depth look at the work of two composers associated with Shakespeare on Film: William Walton and Patrick Doyle.

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Amelia Marriette

Dec 27, 2019
3 min

A Blissful Day of Snow

Like all children from 3 to 83, I wanted snow at Christmas, but we did not get any. A few days before Christmas, however, we had a wonder...

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Amelia Marriette

Dec 17, 2019
3 min

The First Book Reading and Signing of Walking into Alchemy.

The First Book Reading and Signing of Walking into Alchemy at the Sprich Dich Frei Institute in Wolfsberg, Austria.

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Amelia Marriette

Dec 7, 2019
3 min

Looking at the Stars

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Amelia Marriette

Nov 26, 2019
2 min

Walking into Alchemy - It's Finally Here!

Publication day is here!

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Amelia Marriette

Oct 29, 2019
3 min

Early Morning Editing & Learning to work with a Professional Editor

The Editing Process

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Amelia Marriette

Sep 23, 2019
4 min

Apples - Chapter 45, 23rd October

The following is an edited extract from my book Walking into Alchemy, from October 2016. Mereo Books will publish the book in the Autumn....

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Amelia Marriette

Sep 18, 2019
2 min

An Alfresco Breakfast with a Spider, and a Black Squirrel.

We enjoy breakfast outside in the beautiful September sunshine.

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Amelia Marriette

Sep 13, 2019
2 min

Feeding my Addiction to Walking

Since I finished my year of walking in 2016 when I walked every week, if not every day, I now have to feed my addiction. Today I have car...

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Amelia Marriette

Aug 31, 2019
1 min

Walking into Alchemy: The Transformative Power of Nature - What's it all about, anyway?

Walking into Alchemy - part memoir, part nature book. A book about enjoying life and learning to find joy again.

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Amelia Marriette

Aug 31, 2019
3 min

Dew - Chapter 39, 27th August

My book will be published by Mereo Books of Cirencester. This is an extract from Chapter 39 entitled Dew.

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