Scene: the Village Hall. The Vicar addresses the audience (the WI): V: (Clapping hands). Now I know that you’ve all come here this evening to hear one of Mr. Backwatersman’s Interesting Talks on the subject of cricket, or perhaps one of his recitations of Improving Verse, but I’m afraid to say I have to tell [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Photography’
A Cavalcade of Spring : Some Rivers of the East Midlands
Posted in Photography, Trains, tagged Excuses, Photography, River Jordan, Women's Institute on April 21, 2010 | 2 Comments »
A river in Spring : the Derwent
Posted in Photography, This England, Trains, tagged Derby, Photography, Ring roads, River Derwent, Rivers on April 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
A fairly gratuitous Spring picture, this one. It’s the River Derwent, as it flows through Derby, close to the railway station. I snapped it as I was on my way to the cricket yesterday. What you can’t see from the picture is that it was taken very close to what has to be one of the [...]
A photograph for Easter
Posted in Arts, Church of England, Photography, Religion, Sculpture, tagged Church of England, Crucifixion, Easter, Little Bowden, Market Harborough, New Testament, Photography, St. Hugh's, Statues on April 4, 2010 | 2 Comments »
“And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness all over the earth until the ninth hour. And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst. And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my [...]
Young Spring Lambs, by John Clare (and some older sheep in Little Bowden)
Posted in Animals, Arts, Nature, Photography, Poetry, This England, tagged John Clare, Little Bowden, Market Harborough, Photography, Poetry, Sheep, Spring on March 31, 2010 | 2 Comments »
One of the traditional things we associate with Spring – and you may remember that, we had it last week – that I haven’t seen this year so far is lambs. Not one. Being an optimistic sort I’d like to think that this is co-incidence, rather than that sheep are becoming extinct. Here, however, is [...]
Self portrait on a gravestone
Posted in Arts, Photography, tagged Little Bowden, Photography, Self portraits, Shadows, St Nicholas, War memorials on March 27, 2010 | 2 Comments »
This is the war memorial at St Nicholas, Little Bowden again, from a different angle (about 6.30 yesterday morning). If I’d achieved this effect deliberately, I think it would have been quite clever of me.
… and in the morning we will remember them
Posted in Church of England, Photography, Religion, tagged Church of England, Leicestershire, Little Bowden, Market Harborough, Photography, War memorials on March 23, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Having to get up early has many pains, but it does have a few pleasures. This is part of my route to the station, and is the war memorial in the churchyard of St Nicholas, Little Bowden at about 6.30 this bright and frosty morning.
Another green man : Sir Alfred East
Posted in Arts, Painting, Photography, Sculpture, tagged Alfred East, Alfred East Art Gallery, Busts, Damien Hirst, Green, Kettering, Northamptonshire, Photography, Sculpture, Statues on March 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Yet another statue – the great advantage of taking photographs of statues for novice photographers being – do you see?- that they don’t move about. Following on from what I was saying about the statute of John Betjeman at St Pancras, and its hue, here is another very green man – the bust of Sir Alfred [...]
Too green? John Betjeman at St Pancras
Posted in Arts, Blogging, Photography, Poetry, Sculpture, Trains, tagged Green, John Betjeman, Photography, Poetry, Sculpture, St Pancras, Statues, Trains on March 17, 2010 | 6 Comments »
I would just like to announce that this blog has now entered a new era, and has taken a further step along the road to becoming a true Multi-Media Experience. I have managed to acquire a digital camera (by inheritance from my daughter) so readers had better brace themselves for a brief, Toad-like outbust of [...]
