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Nevruz 2018

April 7, 2018by Claire Leave a comment

A somewhat belated 2018 Nevruz celebration  – there has been a lot going on here and the blog has fallen behind – I will try and catch up although the […]

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Animals, Bees, Campsite, Dogs, Food Truck, gardening, My other life, shepherding, wild swimming

Waiting

February 1, 2018by Claire Leave a comment

A long day teaching in London followed by a night waiting for Elsie to kid. I thought she was close to giving birth when I left yesterday as her ligaments […]

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My other life, shepherding

Lussekatter, Abu Hamdan and Walid Ra’ad

January 29, 2018by Claire 2 Comments

Last week I went to Sweden to look around the Manipulate the World exhibition at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm and to see my sister and her family. My sister and […]

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Food Truck, My other life, recipes

Food Truck, Coincidences and Wild Swimming

October 18, 2017by Claire 8 Comments

I was away last week in Tallinn for work. It was a very interesting workshop with some lovely, clever people. Bizarrely, I unexpectedly bumped into my sister on the flight […]

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Food Truck, My other life, wild swimming

Little Fears

October 7, 2017by Claire Leave a comment

I don’t have little fears. I have crushing, great, overwhelming ones. The book deadline looms so high that I am working on a Saturday, after having worked all week (so […]

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My other life

Black Currant Ice Cream

July 18, 2017by Claire 2 Comments

I’m on my way to Nuremberg to give a talk at a conference on the Reformation. I’m talking about Ottoman imaginations of the religious schism between Protestant and Catholics in […]

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My other life, recipes

Four Seasons in One Day

May 24, 2017by Claire 9 Comments

Yesterday I was an academic, beekeeper, shepherd and chicken fancier – I just love that last term! My day mainly consisted of marking final year essays and dissertations, some were […]

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Animals, Bees, My other life, shepherding

Sarajevo

May 22, 2017by Claire 12 Comments

The week before last and over the weekend I was in Sarajevo for work. I was involved with a workshop at the Faculty of Islamic Theology at Sarajevo University working […]

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My other life

Book

April 30, 2017by Claire 9 Comments

One of the books I have been working on for the past year  came out recently and the publisher sent me some copies. I started work on this book about […]

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My other life

Vernal Equinox

March 20, 2017by Claire 8 Comments

Here at smallholdingdreams we celebrate the Persian New Year (Nev-ruz) otherwise known as the vernal equinox with a review of the past year’s activities (see here and here). However, as […]

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