Exeter Word Hoard

I have started preparatory reading for a new place-making project; this time in Exeter, Devon UK. I’m calling it, Exeter Word Hoard.

This name is inspired by the opening line from ‘Widsith’ in The Exeter Book, (Exeter Cathedral Library, MS 3501). The first letter, 'w', for word, is an old runic letter, wynn, which looks like this:

word hord written in Old English

The WhatsApp Well

I plan to use what I’ve learnt from my WhatsApp work on Ouistreham (see older posts here if interested). The project will have a webpage on my research website on Google Sites, with an open link to finished PDFs and live WORD documents that are still in the Dialogue Journaling phase. I’ll be using the WELL format for the documents so that they display well on smartphones directly from the archive or WhatsApp E-Library Locker. Dialogue will be through a WhatsApp Community and its Group or Groups. More news on that later.

Patricia Beer in Exeter

The first reading I’ve unearthed, thanks to the wonderful help from the lovely staff in Special Collections at University of Exeter is the poetry of Patricia Beer (1919-1999). One of Beer’s poems will be the focus for my first exploration of the city, ‘The Customer at the Ship Inn’. It can be found in this collection, photo below...

The Ship Inn is at 1-3 Martin's Lane, Exeter EX1 1EY on Google Maps and they are on Facebook, too. Her poem speaks of the street or lane by a different name, Fysshe Street. Martin’s Lane continues from Queen St, rather than Gandy St as they meet the High St. It is on an almost-straight walking route from the Cathedral Green towards the Roman Wall, though. Do you know Fysshe Street? Does it still exist today, please?

Methdologies for Travel Writers understanding City Space

I am using two methodologies to elicit narrative knowledge of the urban spaces in Exeter. The main framework is Dialogue Journaling. The process model diagram for this was published in

Mansfield, C., Séraphin, H., Wassler, P., & Potočnik Topler, J. (2024). Travel Writing as a Tool for Sustainable Initiatives: Proposing a Dialogue Journaling Process Model. Journal of Travel Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/00472875241269902

Table 1 - Process Model for Dialogue Journaling

However, in this work, Narrative Inquiry will be included, particularly to elicit stories of places in the city that have been experienced both in the past and during the time of the research. The key textbook for the narrative inquiry methods is the new edition from Routledge by D. Jean Clandinin (2023) Engaging in Narrative Inquiry.

AI Detector

I've been looking at AI Detectors that are now stable and easy to use. The first one to write about is from a company based in Montreal, and so, as you would expect from that bilingual city, it works on English and French texts. It's called Winston AI. The AI detector tells you if written copy is generated by a human or an Artificial Intelligence text generator robot. It uses a graphic sliding scale. The software also detects plagiarism and presents a thorough list of any copied content it has found. As a user of Winston AI you just paste text into the quick scan option. You can upload bigger documents in the following formats: .docx, .pdf, .png and .jpg for the OCR (Optical Character Recognition) system to convert to electronic text from scanned documents or pictures. This also works on handwriting like Google Lens and the other handwritten text readers and convertors do. The Winston AI Detector works in projects, this lets you label or title pieces you are examining for plagi...

Call for chapters

Call for chapters Sustainable Narratives and Technologies in Tourism What will tourism look like in the 2030s? Tourism destination development will take sustainability as a given. Social media and emerging technologies will be integrated in the stories of co-created visitor experience. Are you working in these converging areas? Following the success of our research monograph with Routledge and its teaching companion, we are looking for contributors for a new collection. Click to view Download free eBook Chapters of up to 8000 words, including references. Each chapter to explore a tourism or hospitality development as a case study with details of underpinning theory. Provide example questions and answers for students, and PowerPoint® slides for lecturers to use your chapter in their modules. Download and Submit in WORD Document Timeline for Chapter...

The Space in Mill Bay

Millbay, Saturday 3 August 2024 Samedi. A decade has passed since Sam Ferguson published his question* on the innovative story by André Gide, called, Paludes . In English that book title could be rendered as Swamps, or, Sourpool, perhaps. Plymouth's Sourpool is recorded in 1439 when the town's boundary was fixed during its incorporation as a Devon borough. The record reads ‘between the hill called Windy Ridge – by the bank of the Sourpool – against the north all the way to the great dyke otherwise called the great ditch’. Damp, mossy, ferny, even swampy boundaries blurred the edges of the space we call Millbay today. Paludes occupies a critical point of experimentation in the trajectory of published diary-writing […] exploring the possible relationship of the diary with the literary œuvre, and its capacity for addressing philosophical and aesthetic questions. The pertinence of this experimentation to the modern field of life-writing makes this a suitable moment for anothe...

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