William Gibson’s new book Zero History came out a few days ago. It’s a taut thriller about information and the power of design, and fetishises a designer who uses deadstock fabric, of a quality impossible to find new, to make clothing with shapes inspired by the golden age of workwear. The designer doesn’t release in [...]
Entries Tagged as 'norfolk'
Norwich in London
June 21st, 2010 No Comments
If you are a Londoner who wishes they were by the seaside then the exhibition opening at the Bankside Gallery tomorrow night is for you. Norwich Printmakers at Bankside Gallery runs for a week only, 22nd – 27th June. There will be 33 printmakers from the Norwich area there, many exhibiting in London for the [...]
Tags: Bankside Gallery · printmaking
St Jude’s Christmas Show
December 4th, 2009 No Comments
St Jude’s in Itteringham are opening their Christmas show with mulled wine, mince pies and a glorious exhibition of prints.
Felbrigg Hall by Ed Kluz is one of the standout pieces for me in the online preview – part collage, part painting and full of joyful colour, it’s one of a collection of images of eccentric [...]
Tags: christmas presents · printmaking · st judes
Holkham Hall
September 6th, 2009 5 Comments
This blog has a slight danger of becoming a stately home review blog, but I’m not going to apologise. I love being surrounded by beautiful things and drinking tea, and a house visit generally involves both of these in spades. It’s like Grand Designs without the hard hats.
Holkham Hall is interesting to visit because it’s [...]
Tags: holkham · north norfolk · stately home
Justin Partyka in Norwich
August 28th, 2009 No Comments
On Tuesday the Justin Partyka show opens at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts. I’ve written about him on here before and I do think it’ll be a show worth going to see – there will be more than fifty of his images of the East Anglian countryside and its people. It’ll be on til [...]
Tags: countryside · exhibition · Justin Partyka · photography
What to do in East Anglia when it’s wet
August 7th, 2009 No Comments
Call me cynical and depressed about the weather, but I thought a round up of some good places to spend wet afternoons might be a timely and useful thing for a British August. I personally like knocking around big museums when the weather is bad. Coming across beautiful and interesting things is always an antidote [...]
Getting to Norfolk
July 26th, 2009 1 Comment
I notice that the Guardian are running a ‘Win a weekend in Norwich’ competition, for those readers in London and the South East. It includes first class rail tickets from London, two nights in a rather nice guesthouse and a Norwich attractions pass. So if you’ve been thinking about visiting… go here by 21st August.
Photo [...]
Tags: norfolk · norwich · tourist visit
Seasonal food, tented
June 12th, 2009 No Comments
Kate at All Things Considered points out that tonight is the launch night of an intriguing restaurant on the Norfolk coast that operates in a yurt. Their pitch is “simple, taste-driven food, prepared and served by a passionate bunch”. The restaurant is situated by a farm in the village of Thornham and they’ll be using [...]
Tags: droves orchard · local food · north norfolk · restaurant · seasonal food · yurt
Now with added map
June 2nd, 2009 2 Comments
I just wanted to draw your attention to the fact that from now on I’ll be plotting the geographic location of the things I write about on a google map, which can be found though the ‘navigate using map’ link on the right sidebar. It seems appropriate given the heavily localised nature of the blog, [...]
Tags: cartography · east anglia · google map
Walking in the footsteps of giants and legends
June 2nd, 2009 2 Comments
I just stumbled on a fascinating little site that simply pulls together all the myths and legends associated with specific places in Norfolk and Suffolk, whether it’s a secret tunnel or a giant’s grave they will be there. It’s a labour of love by a chap called Mike Burgess in Lowestoft, who keeps it updated [...]
Tags: fairies · folklore · giants · legend · myth · norfolk · secret tunnels · suffolk