
The Lake Isle of Innisfree is the work of W. B. Yeats, one of my favourite poets.
Why do I like this poem?
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree is the work of W. B. Yeats, one of my favourite poets.
Why do I like this poem?

We are currently enduring an unrelenting heatwave. It’s lasted days. We expect a thunderstorm tonight. Never so eagerly have I awaited one. And I suspect I’m not alone.

I was curious about this street because it is named after someone who is described simply as the wife of someone else.
Surely that cannot have been the only thing noteworthy about Maria van Reigersbergen.
So who was she, really?
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I really like this one. My introduction to Oban, and it’s going well.
