Archive for May, 2009
25%
From an interview with Mark Borkowski in The Word magazine.
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Tags: 25%, Mark Borkowski, The Word
I’ve loved Grayson Perry’s work for a while (although I haven’t seen much in the flesh other than a wonderful exhibition called ‘The Charms Of Lincolnshire’ which I saw (perhaps understandably) at The Collection in Lincoln) so when I was stuck at Lakeside last week I bought this to read given that (a) I’d almost […]
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Tags: Art, Chelmsford, Grayson Perry, The Charms Of Lincolnshire, The Collection, Transvetite
There And Back Again
And then to Lakeside to pay homage to one of the great (ahem) and I think first reality TV programmes (and also to allow some of us to shop). We arrived a little later than intended and £3.00 poorer having mistakenly traversed the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge and then returned via the Dartford Tunnel which […]
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Tags: Dartford Tunnel, Lakeside, Queen Elizabeth II Bridge
“Southend’s The End” *
I’d been looking forward to visiting to Southend-On-Sea, unfortunately it was a bit of a disappointment. To me it seemed a strangely disjointed town, not sure whether it’s a seaside location with a town attached or a town with a seaside location attached. I couldn’t decide which it was but when we parked up on […]
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Tags: A13, Billy Bragg, Esplanade House, Leigh-On-Sea, Pier, Samaritans, Seaside, Sir John Betjeman, Southend Pier, Southend Pier Museum, Southend-On-Sea, Westcliff-On-Sea
A few days away from home after another peculiar week (I fear that’s all we’re going to have in 2009 and I’ve yet to decide whether that’s a good or a bad thing). Originally intended as a visit to the RHS garden at Hyde Hall however subsequently combined with a visit to Southend-On-Sea (so as […]
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Tags: Chelmsford, Gardens, Hyde Hall, RHS, Southend-On-Sea
The XX Marks The Spot
Off on our travels tomorrow, not far and only for a few days, but travelling nevertheless we are – they tell me it broadens the mind which is good as currently the little grey cells need some exercise. I do tend to travel light (which makes one of us) however I do always need a […]
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Tags: Crystalise, Holy Fuck, Jungles, The xx
In Bloom II
Continuing the theme although more literally this time – a short and (hopefully photographically) sweet homage to one of my favourite flowers / plants (I never know about these things as I’m not a horticulturist or an etymologist), the Allium.
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Tags: Allium, Flowers, Gardens
In Bloom
You probably can’t get a more quintessentially British day out than a visit to the Bressingham Steam Museum and Gardens. Well you can but only if you visit on the annual Dad’s Army Croft & Perry day that is – which is where I found myself last Sunday. So along with a ramshackle collection of […]
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Tags: Bill Pertwee, Bressingham Steam Museum and Gardens, Croft & Perry, Dad's Army, Home Guard
dig your fins 