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Nov 17
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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The First Book Reading and Signing of Walking into Alchemy.

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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Walking into Alchemy - It's Finally Here!

Amelia Marriette

Nov 26, 2019
2 min

Walking into Alchemy - It's Finally Here!

Publication day is here!

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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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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?

A Blissful Day of Snow

The First Book Reading and Signing of Walking into Alchemy.

Looking at the Stars

Walking into Alchemy - It's Finally Here!

Movie Time in Malvern, Worcestershire

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