easily distracted by shiny things…
Posted in culture, photos, re-enactment on Jul 18th, 2010
A couple of weekends ago we went to see the Fairfax Battalion putting on a Civil War re-enactment at Mapledurham. As always, I took a bunch of photos.
We spent a long time chatting to the barber-surgeon, and I was surprised to find out about some of the more delicate operations that could be done at [...]
Posted in culture, exhibitions, inspiration, nature, photos on Jul 16th, 2010
This is the Natural History Museum in London. Quite a typical view - looking over the central hall from the giant sequoia tree, over the top of the big dinosaur skeleton, to the statue of Darwin on the main staircase.
Usually people are so busy looking at the dinosaur that it simply doesn’t occur to them [...]
Posted in inspiration, nature, photos on Jul 14th, 2010
While we were in Devon, we thought it would be rude to go home without paying a little visit to a beach. We were told that Portwrinkle was the closest beach that didn’t require climbing down a million steps, so that’s where we went.
As you can see, Portwrinkle beach is made from stones and shells, [...]
Posted in inspiration, photos on Jul 13th, 2010
It’s a month now since we went to Devon, and we stopped at Exeter on the way down. We arrived at Exeter Cathedral at about four o’clock on a gloriously sunny afternoon, and it turned out to be the perfect time to take photographs of the stonework and stained glass.
The higher up the outside of [...]
Today we took a trip out to the Wolf Conservation Trust at Beenham for their open day. They’re not usually open to the general public, so the place was very busy. We took our cameras, and so did almost everybody else, but we were saddened to notice that the bigger the lens, the ruder the [...]
Yesterday we went to a Live Crafts food & craft fair at Mapledurham House. The highlights of the day for us turned out to be the food fair, and the birds of prey.
Ben Potter had brought along owls, eagles, a kite and a vulture. Sadly we missed most of the actual displays, but Bramley the barn [...]
Posted in exhibitions, inspiration, photos on Apr 2nd, 2010
The second building at the REME Museum of Technology is where all the vehicles are kept.
Obviously we saw tanks, and a helicopter (with the Easter Bunny as the pilot!), but I was particularly interested in the seemingly endless variations on the Bedford lorry. Not only were they used to transport both personnel and equipment, but [...]
Posted in exhibitions, photos on Apr 2nd, 2010
This morning we paid an impromptu visit to the REME Museum of Technology at Arborfield. We wanted to go somewhere local, but that we’d never been to before, so this fit the bill perfectly. We were both surprised at how big the Museum was, and also how good the displays were. I have to say [...]
Photo © Jon Stockham
Nicola knitted Anne Hanson’s Honeybee Stole for me. It took her the best part of a year, and matched my outfit perfectly. She even worked on it while she was in hospital, in labour with her daughter Gwen. Now that’s dedication!
Photo © Jon Stockham
A close-up of Nicola’s Honeybee Stole. Isn’t it beautiful?
Photo [...]
Paul and I got married on Hallowe’en, which was absolutely ages ago, and whilst I showed you the honeymoon pictures, I haven’t yet posted any pictures of the wedding itself!
Because most wedding photos are of people you don’t know, I decided to concentrate on showing you the things that we made ourselves, or that our [...]