Amelia's Blog

Jan 4
8 min

What does Walking into Alchemy mean? And What is Spiritual Alchemy?

Full many a glorious morning have I seen Flatter the mountain tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gildin...

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Is it okay to be imperfect? Japanese Kintsugi has the answer.

Amelia Marriette

Dec 30, 2020
4 min

Is it okay to be imperfect? Japanese Kintsugi has the answer.

It’s the time of year when, like most of us, I feel reflective and perhaps even a little melancholy. Have I achieved all that I wanted to...

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How does the Christmas Carol Silent Night Capture a Sense of Soul?

Amelia Marriette

Dec 21, 2020
3 min

How does the Christmas Carol Silent Night Capture a Sense of Soul?

When I relocated from South Devon in the UK to Bad Sankt Leonhard in the Carinthian region of Austria in 2015 one of the things I was loo...

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How does walking improve mental health and inspire creativity for composers and writers alike?

Amelia Marriette

Dec 5, 2020
4 min

How does walking improve mental health and inspire creativity for composers and writers alike?

When I was appointed as the Curator of the Holst Birthplace Museum in Cheltenham in 2004, I began what will probably be a lifelong quest ...

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Is Renaissance poetry still relevant? The Day that John Donne jumped out at me

Amelia Marriette

Nov 17, 2020
4 min

Is Renaissance poetry still relevant? The Day that John Donne jumped out at me

Hello, my name is Amelia Marriette, and I am a walker. I freely admit it. I am addicted, and there seems to be no cure. Much of my life r...

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How to make walking in the same landscape every day a gift

Amelia Marriette

Nov 14, 2020
2 min

How to make walking in the same landscape every day a gift

Dr Kerri Andrew's new book Wanderers: A History of Women Walking is a long-overdue work and is a very welcome addition to the canon. Dr A...

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Is the Pandemic making you feel angry? Perhaps, raising money for charity might be the answer.

Amelia Marriette

Nov 6, 2020
3 min

Is the Pandemic making you feel angry? Perhaps, raising money for charity might be the answer.

At the beginning of the virus, I was like most people afraid and worried. But most of us believed that it would all be over by the autumn...

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Is Shakespeare's First Folio really worth 10 Million Dollars in 2020?

Amelia Marriette

Oct 16, 2020
3 min

Is Shakespeare's First Folio really worth 10 Million Dollars in 2020?

In 2001 I wrote my play, Nay, Remember Me! It was performed at the Royal Shakespeare Company's Other Place Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon

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Amelia Marriette

Sep 24, 2020
3 min

Where will your OU degree take you?

I simply cannot imagine my life without the Open University. Everything would be so entirely different for me now.

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Amelia Marriette

Sep 3, 2020
4 min

From a lockdown photo to a painting Amelia Marriette & Sky Artist of the Year Contestant Pippa Thew

How can a lockdown photograph become a painting? Author Amelia Marriette & Sky Artist of the Year Contestant Pippa Thew dicuss.

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Amelia Marriette

Aug 28, 2020
3 min

How Personal Should Non-Fiction Writing be? Interview with Jackie Baker and author Amelia Marriette

Non-fiction writing is not therapy and the reader does not want to be playing the role of Dr Freud while you the author lie naked on the ...

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Opera North Walking Home: Sound Journeys For Lockdown & Martin Green’s A Place of Crisps and Pianos

Amelia Marriette

Aug 21, 2020
5 min

Opera North Walking Home: Sound Journeys For Lockdown & Martin Green’s A Place of Crisps and Pianos

Amelia Marriette, author of Walking into Alchemy, blogs about Opera North and their Walking Home: Sound Journeys for Lockdown Project

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Amelia Marriette

Aug 18, 2020
3 min

Can Found Objects help writers? Zoom talk with Jackie Baker and author Amelia Marriette

In the second of our Zoom talks, Jackie Baker asks Amelia Marriette author of Walking into Alchemy: The Transformative Power of Nature about

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Amelia Marriette

Aug 4, 2020
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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Can gardening change anything? 7 reasons to get gardening!

Amelia Marriette

May 15, 2020
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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How can I make more of my store cupboard during a lockdown?

Amelia Marriette

Apr 29, 2020
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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How can I achieve flow? How can I learn to live in the moment?

Amelia Marriette

Apr 20, 2020
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, 2020
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, 2020
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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How can one Day of Walking in snow be so Blissful?

Amelia Marriette

Dec 27, 2019
3 min

How can one Day of Walking in snow be so Blissful?

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's Blog

What does Walking into Alchemy mean? And What is Spiritual Alchemy?

Is it okay to be imperfect? Japanese Kintsugi has the answer.

How does the Christmas Carol Silent Night Capture a Sense of Soul?

How does walking improve mental health and inspire creativity for composers and writers alike?

Is Renaissance poetry still relevant? The Day that John Donne jumped out at me

How to make walking in the same landscape every day a gift

Is the Pandemic making you feel angry? Perhaps, raising money for charity might be the answer.

Is Shakespeare's First Folio really worth 10 Million Dollars in 2020?

Where will your OU degree take you?

From a lockdown photo to a painting Amelia Marriette & Sky Artist of the Year Contestant Pippa Thew

How Personal Should Non-Fiction Writing be? Interview with Jackie Baker and author Amelia Marriette

Opera North Walking Home: Sound Journeys For Lockdown & Martin Green’s A Place of Crisps and Pianos

Can Found Objects help writers? Zoom talk with Jackie Baker and author Amelia Marriette

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

Can gardening change anything? 7 reasons to get gardening!

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

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

Can I really eat dandelions?

How many previous lives have you had?

How can one Day of Walking in snow be so Blissful?

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