Monthly Archives: July 2022

Recycled Staff

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Mining the Diaries

Continuing with the trawl through my diaries (see post 9th May 2022), they are a continual reminder of how much one forgets.  Sometimes they jog a memory and a elicit a recollection that adds to the written words; and then … Continue reading

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Fen Landscape – Cottenham

Cottenham Lode and Great North Fen, 15th July 2022, in a prolonged dry period.

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Silver steps

I’ve walked past this pole in Broad Lane, Cottenham, many times, but never before noticed the silver stairway to heaven. Are the steps new, or is this just a happy accident of timing as the sun began to set in … Continue reading

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Photography in Fiction – Never Anyone But You

Never Anyone But You is the fictionalised story of the lives of Claud Cahun and Marcel Moore by Rupert Thomson (Corsair 2019). Cahun was born in 1894 into a provincial, but prominent, intellectual Jewish family; her birth name was Lucy Schwab. When … Continue reading

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Sculpted Faces 2

Faces from The Tribe and Heft, sculptures by Lawrence Edwards at Snape Maltings, July 2022

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Wenhaston Doom

I’ve just started reading Brian McLaren’s Faith after Doubt.  He argues that questions and doubts are not the enemies of faith, but rather a way to a more mature and satisfying kind of faith.  It’s a liberal view that chimes … Continue reading

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Only Colour – Southwold 2

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Only Colour – Southwold

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Only Colour – Reydon

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Only Colour – St Davids

St Davids colour, July 2021.

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Reydon Graves

The big churchyard of St Margaret’s, Reydon, Suffolk, and the adjacent Southwold Cemetery are unusual in the absence of big memorials to the departed of local families.  Both are dominated by simple upright headstones, decoration extending only to the choice … Continue reading

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Postcards From Southwold 2

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Postcards From Southwold 1

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Endings 1

“When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.” Kahlil Gibrán, Sand and Foam  

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