Malcolm Stoneman

Lovely Purple Sandpiper near the lighthouse on Brixham Breakwater. #UKBirding #Brixham

We were only talking about this church recently, since we passed it a few years ago on our London Walks (Book 2) tour.
We aim to return & also visit the new Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration when it opens in May.

Happy Birthday.🥳

Enjoy your perambulations.

We loved our walks. Our walking/architecture guidebook worked on the premise that the city was a group of villages/settlements with their own churches & market/public places - the modern day chiesa & piazza. Therefore, we walked from one to the next.

Fantastic photo.
What great weather you are having.

It is so “easy” to walk miles in Venice, there is just another passageway to explore. 😉

Daffodils with yellow petals & golden trumpets.

👀 Coffee time ☕️☕️🌺 -
Downham Market, Norfolk

Daffodils - 📷 07.03.2026

#elevensestime

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Flowers growing at the edge of the former rooftop test track.

What a memorable trip.

📷 Former Fiat factory roof garden.

Detail of end gable wall & frontage to hotel. Dormer window & stone chimney. Carved spiral stone bracket and thin metal rod supports for gutter.

Haycock Hotel, Wansford, Near Peterborough

An early 17th Century Coaching Inn, but modified in later centuries.

Coursed limestone & ashlar dressings.
Carved stone & thin metal brackets for the gutter.
Collyweston stone slated roof.

#HistoricEngland Grade II listed.

#TilesOnTuesday #Architecture

Yes, indeed.

Mandarin Duck Poole Park Poole Dorset @harbourbirds.bsky.social @dorsetbirdclub.bsky.social @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social #birds

Last year we had a fantastic day tour of Huntingdonshire churches in a smallish group with John.

It was excellent.

Hopefully we can join John again this year.

If you get the chance do sign up to one of his tours 👇

A&M

Christ’s entry into Jerusalem modelled on 3-D on the reredos.

Agreed, the whole Ely Cathedral reredos is full of amazing details to appreciate.

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Fully agree Peter.
When you read about so much negativity in the world & you then see something as brilliant as this. 🤷‍♂️
I love how just a relatively few marks can convey so much.

👍 Great, we are still waiting to hear our first one of the year here in Norfolk.

👏😂

Purple Hyacinth with bell like flowers hanging from its stem.

👀 Coffee time ☕️☕️☕️☕️🌺 -
Downham Market, Norfolk

Hyacinth - 📷 07.03.2026

#elevensestime

Huge gothic reredos in Ely Cathedral.

Yes, maybe, but it is also the scale of the huge reredos with so many fine details.

Yes, such wonderful details.
Amazing to think that it took 28 years to produce the reredos. 🤔

Quatrefoil design with square in centre, picked out with star & diamond pieces of opus sectile.

Spiral carving of column with jewel-like additions of red & gold.

Reredos in Ely Cathedral, Ely, Cambridgeshire

• Detail from the reredos of “Opus Sectile” - a decorative mosaic-like facing.
• A close-up of one of the spiral columns with jewel like additions.

Of 1850 - 1868 by George Gilbert Scott in an Italian style.

#MosaicMonday

A distinctive beer that I thoroughly enjoyed the other day. Good to visit the Penryn brewery to get a few cans.

Yes, it was great to see the flowers & there was a real warmth in the sun as well.

Thank you. 😊

Purple flower with 4 petals & white centre.

Pink hooded flowers, heart shaped (mint like) leaves, with square stems.

Yellow flowers with 8 petals & yellow stamens.

Peacock butterfly with four “eyes” on the wings.

🚶‍♀️🚶🏻‍♂️ Snettisham to Dersingham, Norfolk

A glorious sunny day earlier in the week, with many flowers in the hedgerows.

• Common field speedwell
• Red Dead nettle
• Lesser celandine
• Peacock butterfly

#Wildflowerhour

My photo shows a famous wall painting from Pompeii known as the Sappho fresco. It shows the head and upper body of a young woman framed inside a painted circular border. She faces forward. Her eyes are large and dark, gazing to one side with a calm and thoughtful expression, as if pausing mid-thought. Her skin is pale, and her hair is dark brown and tightly curled, forming small ringlets around her face. A thin golden hairnet holds her curls in place. She wears small gold hoop earrings, and a brown cloak over a green garment. In her right hand she holds a thin dark metal stylus (writing tool) up against her lips, as if thinking about what to write. In her left hand she holds a small rectangular wooden wax writing tablet. The fresco is now on display at the Muso Archeologico Nazionale in Naples

The ‘Sappho’ fresco from Pompeii.

A beautiful Roman portrait of a young woman for #InternationalWomensDay

She holds a writing tablet, and raises a writing stylus to her lips in thoughtful contemplation. 55-70 AD.

Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples 📷 by me

#Archaeology

Gwen Raverat uses the white of the paper & black lines to create the scene. Tall spindly trees with bare branches & bushes. A single loan figure. The rays of light across the sky & water are indicated by dashed black lines. Owned by Sunderland Council. Museum caption - In Spring Morning, Raverat captured a light-filled landscape in black and white. The long shadow beneath the lone figure emphasises the position of the sun.

Spring Morning - 1915
Wood engraving on paper
Gwen Raverat

I look forward to a Spring Morning such as this, with the light flooding the landscape.

In “Miniature Worlds” exhibition,
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle

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#Art #GwenRaverat #Engraving
#InternationalWomensDay

Indeed, but you should see his mates ….. the lion or eagle. 😉

Enjoy your teacake & chocolate.
We are not surprised you are seething.

Two double flowered daffodils, with ruffled peony-like heads.

👀 Coffee time ☕️ ☕️🌺 - Ryston,
Downham Market, Norfolk

Doubled flowered daffodils -
📷 07.03.2026

#elevensestime