This week’s photograph is another from our 2010 break in Rye. This is a clump of Sea Kale (Crambe maritima) which grows everywhere across the shingle at Rye Harbour and on Dungeness. It is native to Europe growing along the coasts from the Atlantic as far east as the Black Sea. As you’ll guess from the name it’s related to cabbage and sometimes grown as a vegetable as well as an ornamental plant.
Sea Kale
Rye Harbour, August 2010
It’s a long time since we’ve had an instalment in my occasional series documenting some of the underbelly of Britain. Britain which we wouldn’t like visitors to see and which we wish wasn’t there. The trash, abused, decaying, destitute and otherwise buggered parts of our environment. Those parts which symbolise the current economic malaise; parts which, were the country flourishing, wouldn’t be there, would be better cared for, or made less inconvenient.
These choice dwellings are is in Acton Vale, in West London. The photo flatters them — in real life they’re far more picturesquely scrofulous!
This week’s photograph is of Lydd Church in Kent. It is a large church — it not know as “the cathedral of the marshes” for nothing. (That’s the Romney Marsh, by the way.) There has been a church on this site for 1000 years or more — there is a piece of Saxon wall in the NW corner of the nave which has only relatively recently been recognised as such. This is a panoramic joiner image of the south side of the church taken in August 2007.
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Lydd Church, Southern Aspect
August 2007
This week’s photo is from the shorty holiday we had in Rye in September 2010 with our friend Katy and her kids.
I found a lot of very flat stones on the beach at Rye Harbour which I assume are due to them coming from thin beds of sedimentary rocks in the cliffs further along the coast, although some was clearly brick or concrete. I was interested by the variety of colours and textures.
Stone Pile
Rye, September 2010
It’s also surprising what can be pressed into service as a backcloth. I had to use something other than the scruffy patio table at our rental house, and a black t-shirt (complete with white cat’s hairs), although not ideal, did the job.
A bit early but here’s this week’s photo. It’s another of Harry the Cat, who is now getting on for 15. Here he is on Friday night sleeping beside me on the bed, and totally oblivious to me taking his picture with my mobile phone. Note the slit ear and rather beaten up countenance.
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The Old Warrior
5 April 2013
Paris in the Springtime … A quiet square at the western end of Ile de la Cité. This was taken on a warm Friday lunchtime. Noreen and I were sitting outside the café having a delightful lunch with our friend Allison, who was a student in Paris at the time. All the while, just visible in the middle distance, there was a group of Parisian workmen playing boules.
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Montage: Place Dauphine
Paris, May 2006
Let’s have something cheering to combat this ghastly Spring weather.
This rose was spotted growing over a garden wall in Pinner, a couple of summers ago.
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Roadside Rosebud
Pinner, July 2011
This week’s photo is only a rubbishy snapshot of “Harry the Cat” fast asleep in the paper recycling box by my desk. I don’t understand what it is about cats and boxes; or dogs and water come to that!
Cat Recycling
6 March 2013
This is a miniature Phaelenopsis orchid of my mother’s which I’ve been looking after and which has come back into flower in the last week. Seen here enjoying the sunshine on our study windowsill next to the scented geranium cuttings being rooted for this summer’s patio planting etc. The orchid was returned to my mother when we went to see her yesterday; we also took a collection of catkins for her to paint.
Mini Orchid
4 March 2013
I took this while sitting people watching at London’s Paddington Station. GOK what these two where on, or where they’d been, at 10 in the morning!
Jack Hats
London Paddington; July 2012
