And this year’s winner in the Privately Owned Listed Building category goes to the Tower House, Lubenham. You don’t get the full effect from a still photograph, but the pink light shoots upwards like mercury in a thermometer, then ends with a starburst effect at the top. The Tower House was originally an 18th century [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Christmas’
Best Illuminated House Award For Christmas 2011
Posted in Architecture, Arts, Church of England, Equestrianism, Religion, Sport, This England, tagged Christmas, Clergymen, Horse Racing, Illuminations, Leicestershire, Lubenham on December 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Christmas With The Stars … Of Leicestershire C.C.C.
Posted in Blogging, Cricket, Sport, tagged Alex Wyatt, Christmas, Cricket, Harry Gurney, James Taylor, Josh Cobb, Leicestershire County Cricket Club, Matt Boyce, Matthew Hoggard, Twitter, Wayne White on December 27, 2011 | 2 Comments »
As I think I’ve mentioned before, I don’t do Twitter, but I am intrigued by the notion of having access to the workings of the minds of today’s sportsmen, unvarnished by the gloss of media training. I thought I’d have a look at Cricket Tweets, a site which aggregates the Twitter streams of those cricketers who [...]
What Ere Wi Time Has Sanction Found Is Welcome : A Christmas Message From John Clare
Posted in Arts, Poetry, tagged Carol Vordeman, Charles Dickens, Christmas, John Clare, Poetry, Winter on December 24, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Once again, it’s that time of year on this blog where we wish a Happy Birthday to Carol Vordeman and a Merry Christmas and a New Year of your choice to all our readers. I hope Christmas brings you at least some of the joys described in this extract from The Shepherd’s [...]
Inexplicable Splendour : City Churches At Christmas
Posted in Architecture, Arts, Church of England, Religion, tagged Charles Dickens, Christmas, Church of England, Churches, City of London, London, T.S. Eliot on December 20, 2011 | 2 Comments »
In the first week of December I spent a free afternoon walking from the heart of the City of London (and it does have such a thing) to Trafalgar Square. I’ve always felt that this is the part of Christmas-time when London is at its most attractive (assuming that you aren’t completely broke, in which case it’s [...]
Looking For A Last Minute Christmas Present???
Posted in Technology, tagged Christmas, Christmas presents, Phones on December 14, 2011 | 2 Comments »
… then how about this little beauty, the very latest in smart ‘phones from Backwatersman Inc.? What’s that you say? That doesn’t look very smart – it looks like a manky old Nokia that you’ve been using for so long that all the letters and numbers have rubbed off? Well that’s just the point. All the best [...]
Animalequins
Posted in Animals, Clothes, Nature, This England, tagged Animal Welfare, Christmas, Foxes, Shops, Window Displays on December 11, 2011 | 4 Comments »
There has been widespread condemnation this week, following revelations that unscrupulous employers have been putting hard-working models out of work by replacing them with mannequins. But who has taken the place of the mannequins? This blog has uncovered disturbing evidence that innocent woodland creatures are being forced to work long hours – sometimes as much as [...]
Stump Watch St Pancras 2
Posted in Nature, This England, Trains, Trees, tagged Christmas, Lego, Police, St Pancras, Stump Watch, Trees on November 26, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Well, that was quick. The Lego tree at St Pancras is now in its full majesty and lit up like the fleet. As you can probably tell from the picture, it must be one of the most photographed trees in existence, though I like to think I was one of the first to capture it [...]
Stump Watch St Pancras
Posted in Arts, Sculpture, Trees, tagged Christmas, St Pancras, Stump Watch, Trees on November 16, 2011 | 4 Comments »
I see the authorities at St Pancras seem to have adopted my patented Stump Watch programme (without so much as a by your leave!). The scene on Monday - on Tuesday – and today – They must be using an awful lot of fertiliser … (Actually, Lego – perhaps provided by the nearby branch of Hamley’s. [...]
It’s That Time of Year !
Posted in This England, tagged Christmas, Market Harborough, Pubs, Summer on August 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Three Swans, Market Harborough, Sunday 14th August – (though it’s been up for a while) … Only 130 looting shopping days to go …
Let Us Sit Upon the Ground, and Tell Sad Stories of the Death of Kings … (with E.V. Lucas and Alan Gibson)
Posted in Cricket, Drink, Sport, tagged Alan Gibson, Alcohol, Binge-drinking, Christmas, Cricket, E.H.D. Sewell, E.V. Lucas, Gloom, Leicestershire County Cricket Club, Sloughs of Despond, Whisky, Winter on January 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The first faint intimations of this year’s cricket season have started to appear. The Wisden Cricketer have sent me a calendar, featuring “some of the U.K.’s loveliest cricket grounds” (including a couple – Sidmouth and Bourneville – I’ve visited). Leicestershire have sent me last year’s annual report and financial statements – “The club has had what [...]
