Thoughts and photos mostly for friends and family

It is a gusty wind from the east and its feathers are being beautifully disarrayed by it.

We found it by chance while on our way to visit nearby open gardens.

They are atmospheric and somehow forlorn. Silently staring towards America

Just a few unedited pics of this beautiful, old town. The tithe barn and the Saxon church of St Laurence being especially lovely.

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Revisiting after 13 years. I love the boat stores at Tollesbury; such weird structures, at high tide they are isolated by the floodwater. Maldon’s thames barges are lovely reminders of times long past but so many good boats preserved or being restored. But at low tide all there is is mud! I also love the grave of Sarah and the two husbands she outlived. Wonder if she did away with them?

Recent visit with fine shopfronts and the cathedral with Anthony Gormley statue in the flooded crypt and the wonderful hospice at St Cross.

I love the early hooped petticoat narcissus and the views from tjhe members’ bar at the gallery

NB also on, an exhibition of illustrations to Terry Pratchett’s Discworld books worth looking at too.

The statue, of a soldier and his girlfriend embracing, is massive and not that impressive beyond its size i think. But the bronze refiefs around the plinth are stunning

So many placed closely, cluttered together that it was impossible to get a clear picture of any one of them. Ideally the exhibition space should have been ten times bigger to do the pieces justice. In a way it belittles the artists to have their work so jumbled together. But some of the pieces were fantastic; some almost mythical mixtures of beast and man, others caricatures of people known to the artists I think.

I wonder who started this, but the whole area is decorated. No doubt it helps attract tourists to bars and restaurants, but there are hundreds of images.

It’s that time of year when many gardens are showing signs of tiredness perhaps, colours are faded; time to cut back and tidy a bit. Heale House gardens are small enough to wander in little more than an hour, with a fine cafe. 

A fine garden that we will have to return to sometime.

Just back from a short break in this small Sussex town. Although it boasts a castle and a cathedral it is still only a parish as, since 1974 its borough status was reduced. It has fine Georgian buildings and some stunning shop fronts

Lovely sunset at Milford clifftops the other evening