About Me
Hello! I’m Ginnie!
I created this website as a means to nurture a small part of the online world and cultivate all my love and interest in art, travel, writing and beauty.
I am English, and from an early age I fell in love with this land, its history and nature. I love the British Isles! To me, it’s a land so steeped in mystery, folklore and adventure that calls gently in the morning mist. I think it holds a quiet beauty, and with that its strength, majesty and wisdom resonates so profoundly, from our castle ruins to our ancient woods. But more importantly, to me, its home. I constantly find inspiration from this wonderful and magical land, and I'm so grateful for it.
Thank you for being here, and hearing what I have to share and say. I hope you enjoy this little online world.
Here's to the adventures.
To the Dreamers and the Wanderers. ☽
>>>— To Avalon and Back. —>
Recommendations
Books and Plays
- The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien
- Ordinary Men by Christopher R. Browning
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
- The Wanderer’s Havamal
- And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrik Backman
- Macbeth by Shakespeare
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
- Henry V by William Shakespeare
- The Art of War by Sun Tzu
Poems
- The Soldier by Rupert Brooke
- Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen
- For the Fallen by Laurence Binyon
- The Wanderer in the Exeter Book
- The Beginnings by Rudyard Kipling
- To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence by James Elroy Flecker
- London by William Blake
- On Slieve Gullion by Michael Longley
- Suicide in the Trenches by Siegfried Sassoon
- Hawk Roosting by Ted Hughes
- Do not go gentle into that good night by Dylan Thomas
- Reservoirs by R.S. Thomas
- Mametz Wood by Owen Sheers
- The Voluspa in The Poetic Edda
- Under Ben Bulben by William Butler Yeats
- Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- To S.A. by T.E. Lawrence
- The Hill Fort (Y Gaer) by Owen Sheers
- Border Country by Owen Sheers
- ‘When you say millions of the mouthless dead’ by Charles Sorley
- Epitaphs of the War by Rudyard Kipling
- MCMXIV by Philip Larkin
- Aristocrats: “I Think I Am Becoming A God” by Keith Douglas
- Vergissmeinnicht (Forget-me-not) by Keith Douglas
Films and TV Shows
- The Lord of the Rings Trilogy dir. by Peter Jackson
- Hornblower (starr. Ioan Gruffudd)
- Sharpe (starr. Sean Bean)
- Pride and Prejudice (1995 & 2005)
- Sense and Sensibility (2008)
- Mansfield Park (2007)
- Persuasion (1995 & 2007)
- Goodnight, Mister Tom (1998)
- How To Train your Dragon 1&2
- It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
- Robin of Sherwood (1984)
- All Creatures Great and Small (Original Series)
- Star Trek (Original Series)
- The Railway Children (1970)
- The Waltons (1972)
- Life is Beautiful (1997)
- Lassie Come Home (1943)
- Watership Down (1978)
- Foyle’s War
- Crocodile Dundee
- Flipper (1996)
- Harry Potter
- The NeverEnding Story (1984)
- Dick Turpin (1979)
- Narnia
- War and Peace (2016)
- A Night to Remember (1958)
- Garrows Law (starr. Andrew Buchan)
- Ondine (2009)
- Educating Rita (1983)
- New Tricks (starr. Alun Armstrong etc.)
- Monk (starr. Tony Shalhoub)
- Downton Abbey
- Sherlock Holmes (1939, starr. Basil Rathbone)
- A Touch of Frost (starr. David Jason)
- The Bionic Woman (starr. Lindsay Wagner)
- The Hobbit Trilogy dir. by Peter Jackson
- Agatha Christie’s Poirot (1989-2013)
- Little Dorrit (2008)
- Red River (1948)
- True Grit (1969 & 2010)
- Lethal Weapon Trilogy
- Beverly Hills Cop Trilogy
- Tombstone (1993)
- Ikiru (1952)
- Black Sails (starr. Toby Stephens)
- Peaky Blinders
- The A-Team
- Uptown Girls (2003)
- Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman
- Pretty Woman (1990)
- Short Circuit (1986)
Comedy Shows
- The Good Life
- Faulty Towers
- Open All Hours
- Yes Minister, and Yes, Prime Minister
- Dad’s Army
- Blackadder
- The Thin Blue Line
- On the Buses
- Man About The House
- George and Mildred
- Mind your Language
