...and to the Book Hive for a very good and very interesting promotional event for She Who Remains by Rene Karabash, translated by Izidora Angel.
#BookHive #SheWhoRemains #ReneKarabash #IzidoraAngel
Norwich this evening - bikers holding a friendly protest to oppose the removal of the long-standing motorcycle parking area near the market
#NorwichBikers #CityHall
Curlew sketch, North Norfolk (pencil, graphite stick & charcoal on paper 30cm x 30cm)
#curlew #NorthNorfolk #sketchbook
Castledyck Lane in Norwich, an aromatic 16th century alleyway that led to the ditches at the foot of the castle. For the last couple of hundred years it has been known as York Alley, named after the York Tavern which stood at one end of it.
#YorkAlleyNorwich #CastledyckLane
The cormorant tree at Marston Marshes
#cormorant #MarstonMarshes #Norwich
A walk in the mist round Marston Marshes on the outskirts of Norwich, with parakeet and woodpecker calls sounding enhanced as the world fades to grey then gradually disappears.
#MarstonMarshes #Norwich #mist
Wilde’s Score, Lowestoft - one of the steep narrow lanes in the Old Town connecting the High Street with the fishing port.
#LowestoftScores
This afternoon at Heigham Park in Norwich, and it's just like Fresher's Week in the pond. No wonder frogs have bulging eyes.
Disgusting.
#HeighamPark #pondlife #frogs
At Happisburgh (pronounced Haze-bruh), North Norfolk
#Happisburgh
the dark night is over and a new day has begun
an incidental soundscape recorded at the break of day at Kelling Heath in North Norfolk
#sanderson&sanderson
#KellingHeath #fieldrecordings #dawnchorus
The Whipple Museum of the History of Science in Cambridge -
beneath the skin is a rictus grin
and a wild staring eye
#WhippleMuseum #AnatomicalModel #UnderTheSkin
Chantry Place in Norwich - what evil went on here?
Mediaeval bodies of Ashkenazi Jews at the bottom of a well
"...accordingly on 6th February in 1190 AD all the Jews who were found in their own houses at Norwich were butchered; some had taken refuge in the castle".
#NorwichAntiSemitism
Burgh Castle, near Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, a defensive complex at the edge of the mightiest empire the world had known.
Now a decrepit ruin.
Danger - do not climb on the walls.
Sic transit gloria mundi...
#BurghCastle #SaxonShore #RomanBritain
East Anglian Pastoral # 2 (oil on canvas 50 cm x 40cm)
Today marks the first day of meteorological spring…
#EastAnglianPastoral #MeteorologicalSpring #March #springtime #oilpainting
Also coming soon from Waterland Books. Fab front cover painting courtesy of @clairecansick.bsky.social
Design by @typejunky.bsky.social
Introduction by @kg520.bsky.social
We're on a roll!
Finnish Tango (oil on canvas 85cm x 65cm)
Today is Kalevala Day, the Finnish Day of Culture. This is a painting I did a while back after a visit to the country, of the national dance, the tango. I kid you not…
#FinnishTango #KalevalaDay #oilpainting
Fab cover painting courtesy of Fred Ingrams. Design work by @typejunky.bsky.social and intro by @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social
#NorwichNightwalking past a florist's shop on Ber Street
Flatland (oil on canvas 100cm 100cm)
A sunset over the flat Norfolk landscape
#sunset #Norfolk #oilpainting
Nightwalking in Norwich -
down dark back alleys
where angels fear to tread -
who knows what goes on?
#haiku #Norwich #nightwalking
Surrey House, on Surrey Street in Norwich - a Palladian fever dream of marble halls, and a temple of the Insurance trade and an invented palindrome.
No-one protects more...
#SurreyHouse #NorwichUnion
St. Mark's churchyard in Lakenham
the dead sleep under
a blanket of crocuses
as nature awakes
#haiku #Lakenham #Norwich
Ancestors of the Norwich sonneteer, perhaps..?
Lady Joan de Thorpe, at Ashwellthorpe Church, with graffiti tattoos and a swastika necklace.
#Norfolk #AshwellthorpeChurch #LadyJoandeThorpe
Cromer
blustery showers
followed by rain and high winds -
wish you were here
#haiku #Cromer #black&whitephotography
The remnants of St. Bartholomew's Church in Ber Street, Norwich, built near the site of a Bronze Age round barrow.
#St.Bartholomew's #BerStreet #Norwich #archaeology
To St. Andrew's Church in Eaton, Norwich this evening for a concert by the Keswich Hall Choir and a splendid performance of Brahms' German Requiem (while keeping an eye on the men's curling final...)
#KeswickHallChoir #Eaton #St.Andrew'sChurch #Norwich
Mute swan (inks on cotton rag paper 75cm x 55cm)
#muteswan #inkdrawing
Hardley Drainage Mill, just over the river from Cantley and the Limpenhoe Marshes
#Norfolk #HardleyDrainageMill #Cantley #LimpenhoeMarshes #muteswans
Brexitland (oil on canvas 85cm x 65cm)
Everything changes and everything falls apart; empires tumble and dynasties crumble, and we're left to consider the dust...
#dustsceawung #Brexitland #oilpainting
