Archive for October, 2016
Very Flat, Norfolk.
Noel Coward’s assertion that the county I call home is “very flat” is a little unfair (locals would suggest that ‘undulating’ is a more accurate description). However if you study the maps where Norfolk heads towards Lincolnshire it is reasonable to say that contour lines are an infrequent occurrence . Sadly as a result of this the flatlands never seem to get […]
Filed under: Norfolk, Travel | 3 Comments
Tags: Flatlands, Noel Coward, Norfolk, Ongar Hill, Private Lives
I Was A Teenage Stamp Collector
Continuing on the Agatha Christie theme. Whilst we were away a new set of Christie themed stamps arrived from the Royal Mail, celebrating the centenary of the writing of her first detective story, The Mysterious Affair at Styles. As well as being beautifully illustrated and designed (by Neil Webb and Jim Sutherland of Studio Sutherl&), the stamps […]
Filed under: Collecting, Design | 4 Comments
Tags: Agatha Christie, Cud, I Was A Teenage Stamp Collector, I’ve Had It With Blondes, Jim Sutherland, Murder on the Orient Express, Neil Webb, Philately, Royal Mail, Stamps, Studio Sutherl&, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, thermochromic, When In Rome Kill Me
The English Riviera*
A week ago today Mrs Weir and I (along with a more senior interloper) had just returned from a break in the South West, to be specific the handsome South Devon town of Dartmouth. Unlike our last trip to the area we remained free of any driving based trauma as most of our journeys during the […]
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Tags: Agatha Christie, Bayard’s Cove, Dartington Hall, Dartmouth, Dartmouth Steam Railway, Greenway, Paignton, River Dart, South Devon, South West
Print To The People is “an artist led, social enterprise dedicated to the production and promotion of traditional printmaking processes, established in 2009” and based in the fine city of Norwich. I’ve been aware of what they do for a while now, but it wasn’t until this weekend that I got to finally have a look at […]
Filed under: Art, Design, Graphic Design, Print | Leave a Comment
Tags: East Anglia, Jo Stafford, Norwich, Print, Print To The People, Printing, Screen Print, Screen Printing, Screen Printing Taster Day, Toby Rampton
Pole To Pole
In the most recent edition of Daniel Benneworth-Gray’s weekly newsletter (which I’d recommend you subscribe to if you’re not already a reader), he says that “If you have ears, you’ll love the North V South podcast, in which Jonathan Elliman and Rob Turpin talk about design and news and pies.” As it so happens I do indeed have ears and […]
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Tags: 45, Bill Drummond, Daniel Benneworth-Gray, East v West, Jonathan Elliman, Julian Cope, North V South, Podcast, Rob Turpin, The Teardrop Explodes, Wales
