This blog has been a little lacking in poetry recently (rather like life), so here is a poem for March from a poet who must, I think, have some local connection (given that I found the book in a charity shop in Harborough). Antoinette Symington was born in 1913 and grew up on the edge of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Market Harborough’
A March Poem By Antoinette Symington
Posted in Arts, Poetry, tagged Antoinette Symington, Market Harborough, Poetry on March 21, 2012 | 5 Comments »
All Flesh Is Grass
Posted in Arts, Films, This England, tagged Cemeteries, Films, General Hilarity, Market Harborough on November 27, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Who knows what terrors lurk in the old graveyard as dusk approaches … Possible scenario for horror film: A group of American teenagers have foolhardily agreed to spend a night in Market Harborough cemetery for a bet. As they go about their teenagerly activities, all seems well … except that from time to time one of [...]
Practise Makes Perfect
Posted in This England, tagged Market Harborough, Post-it Notes, Spelling on October 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This found object attached itself to my foot as I was on my way through the car park of Harborough’s Leisure Centre on Saturday. There is something rather touching about this. The resolve … the falling short …
A Rose By Any Other Name …
Posted in Football, Sport, This England, tagged Anton Rottenbiler, Football, Harborough Town FC, Market Harborough, Stewarts & Lloyds FC on October 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Name of the day : Anton Rottenbiler (Rotten? Bile? Rottweiler?), one of the coaches of Stewarts & Lloyds FC of Corby- “The Foundreymen”- (according to the programme, anyway). Here we see him involved somewhere in the frank exchange of views between the two benches and the officials that resulted from the dismissal of one of the S [...]
The Scarlet Soldiers
Posted in Arts, Poetry, This England, tagged Market Harborough, Poetry, Soldiers, W.H. Auden on October 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“O what is that sound which so thrills the ear Down in the valley drumming, drumming? Only the scarlet soldiers, dear, The soldiers coming.” Members of the 3rd Battalion of the Royal Anglian Regiment, marching through Harborough last Saturday to receive the Freedom of the District. “O what is that light I see flashing [...]
The Ghost Of A Tree
Posted in Nature, Trees, tagged Ghosts, Market Harborough, Poplars, Robert Smyth School, Trees on October 12, 2011 | 2 Comments »
This one really was a poplar. On Sunday I went on a guided tour of the Hammond Arboretum at Robert Smyth School. There were any number of beautiful and fascinating trees there, but, inevitably, my eye was attracted to this. Apparently it (a Prince Eugene Poplar) used to be the tallest tree in Leicestershire, before it [...]
Autumnal Fruits
Posted in Animals, Cricket, Fruit, Nature, Sport, This England, tagged Autumn, Cricket grounds, Fruit, Little Bowden, Market Harborough, Mice on August 23, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Now here’s a funny thing. A sort of arrangement of early Autumnal fruits in the hedgerow around the perimeter of the ground at Fairfield Road. Perhaps some kind of offering to the Spirit of Cricket? And, on a similar theme, a fat wood mouse – bold as you like! – eating a squashed windfall apple [...]
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 …
E-coli Scare Spreads to Market Harborough?
Posted in Cookery, Health, This England, tagged E-coli, Health and safety, Lidl, Market Harborough, Signs, Supermarkets, Vegetables on June 8, 2011 | 2 Comments »
They’re taking no chances in the vegetable aisle of Lidl, the German-owned chain …
A High Wind in Babylon
Posted in Cricket, Sport, tagged Cricket, Leicester Caribbean C.C., Market Harborough, Market Harborough CC on May 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Market Harborough v Leicester Caribbean, County Cup, Fairfield Road, 29th May 2011 A brief note on a match I attended on Sunday. I can’t verify this (because I can’t find a list of winners online), but from my memory of the honours boards at Grace Road, Leicester Caribbean pretty much dominated the County Cup from [...]
