Category Archives: Blue Rope

Blue rope is ubiquitous. It moors boats, it marks boundaries, it secures covers. Taut, sagging, coiled; it is used, it lies discarded. It’s a visual thesaurus blueness, azure, forget-me-not, sky blue. It ages to almost white. Synthetic, let’s say nylon. What happened to the natural hues of flax, hemp and cotton? Why not red, green or yellow? Who makes it and where? It materialises when we are not watching.

Blue Rope – Wandlebury

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Blue Rope – Cheltenham

Thin blue line on a Chiltern’s autumnal verge, October 2022.

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Blue Rope

Blue rope mooring along the River Cam near Clayhithe. Blue rope aside, I described the scene as ‘squalid’.  J said I was self-satisfied and bourgeois, it was somebody trying to get by in difficult times, and they had bothered to … Continue reading

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Blue Rope – Leasingham

Blue rope with aspirations to be subway straps, but destined to play some supporting role in a plant nursery.

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Blue Rope – Painswick

29th December, almost the end of the year. Duck and hosin sauce pizza (really) in the Waypoint at Painswick Golf; blue rope spotted on the way up to Painswick Beacon.

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Blue Rope Shredded

Hanging rope, not barrier rope.  Shredded rope, not binding rope.  A swinging rope, a play rope.  A rope of adventure, a rope of temptation.  A rope that’s not just a rope, not a rope at all really. A suspended blue … Continue reading

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Blue Rope – Magog Down 2

I drew attention to the intrusive inclusion of the path in my Blue Rope photograph posted on 2nd May. I visited the Down yesterday (the cowslips have almost disappeared and the dog daisies are in waiting) and took a phone … Continue reading

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Blue Rope – Magog Down

The Magog Downs were gilded delicately with cowslips on Friday, showing up the trashy gaudiness of lurid fields of rape. I like the brilliance of the blue here, the spiral and the way the end on the rope is pointing … Continue reading

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Blue Rope, Snettisham

Spring at Snettisham, Norfolk: Blue rope is used to cordon off and protect ground nesting birds like oystercatcher and ringed plover.

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Shingle Blue

Blue rope at Shingle Street autumn 2020.

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Waterbeach Blue

‘At Waterbeach Barracks, our focus will create a place to be proud of, with new homes, investment in transport, renewable energy, green space, schools and healthcare to ensure an exemplar sustainable development. New cycle and walking routes, community orchards and … Continue reading

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Henry Moore

Two very different pictures from the Henry Moore Studios and Gardens on 9th September.

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Welsh Blue

First picture of blue rope since December 2018. This piece seen walking from Nine Wells to Porth y Rhaw, near St Davids, Pembrokeshire.

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A Surfeit of Blue

Holy Trinity, Blythburgh, has 15th century poppy heads representing the seven deadly sins – Gluttony holds up his ample pot belly.  The architect Morris Lapidus called his autobiography Too Much is Never Enough in honour of his monuments to excess.  … Continue reading

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Why Blue Rope?

I had a moment of realisation in the Botanic Garden of Wednesday (actually one of many revelations that morning, but they are part of another story).  Asked to explain why I took photographs of the ubiquitous bright blue rope, for … Continue reading

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