Possibly Cambridge Museum of Technology is an example of Big Society in action. It’s also the perfect place to spend a few hours on a wet bank holiday afternoon, soaking in the smell of hot metal and grease.
The museum is housed in a Victorian pumping station, staffed by volunteers, and stuffed with beautifully maintained Victorian [...]
Entries Tagged as 'cambridgeshire'
Cambridge Museum of Technology and Related Stuff
August 29th, 2010 No Comments
Tags: cambridge · cambridgeshire · east anglia · east of england · museums · printmaking · Technology · victorian
Village typography
July 9th, 2010 1 Comment
Gareth Wild and Michelle Thompson are an East Anglian graphic designer and illustrator, who live on the web at 59highstreet.com. They’ve come up with a way to commemorate the beautiful old village signs that are slowly disappearing from our lanes and hedgerows.
There’s such music in those village names. Ickleton. Elsenham. Sewards End.
Now you can own [...]
Roadside comfort
June 10th, 2010 3 Comments
Inspired by Paul Graham’s Seminal A1 photographs, a photographer called Sam Mellish has been traveling the roads of East Anglia photographing the roadside caffs and food vans parked in lay-bys. Below the line design and food choices untouched by any national chains or any notions of slickness. It’s going into the Babylon Gallery in Ely [...]
Tags:
Writing East Anglia
March 5th, 2010 No Comments
If you enjoy this blog, you may well be interested in a Writing East Anglia workshop at Writers’ Centre Norwich, with Jeremy Page, an author steeped in the local landscape. He writes sad, soulful books about loss, which seems to be the only appropriate form for the hardness of the fens. But perhaps other, more [...]
Tags:
Blue skies
February 10th, 2010 1 Comment
East Anglia has been under a cloud the last week or two – endless, unremitting grey skies and drizzle ranging to snow. There was only one sunny weekend day recently and I dropped everything to get outside. It was so beautiful I have to share.
The morning sun shone right through the flint church at Whaddon.
The [...]
Tags:
Purple Podded Peas
December 12th, 2009 1 Comment
Celia Hart is a printmaker and illustrator born and bred in East Anglia. She translates the world around her into block prints in hazy colours reminiscent of old book illustrations, as well as blogging about cosy studio life and the rich harvest of her walled garden.
She edits out the sad things of life away [...]
Tags: block prints · celia hart · gardening · magic cochin · printmaking
Cambridge Festival of Ideas
October 21st, 2009 No Comments
Just a quick note to say that the Cambridge Festival of Ideas starts today. Their programme is hugely wide, from a plant orchestra at the Botanic Gardens to curators at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology sharing their favourite pieces from the museum, to an Intaglio printmaking workshop, plus talks, performances, hands on workshops. It’s [...]
Tags:
Cinema by punt
August 29th, 2009 No Comments
Cambridge Film Festival have released their schedule for their September festival. What looks most magical is night time screenings by punt – a totally Cambridge experience.
As they say on their website “Imagine yourself sitting in a punt as it glides through the atmospheric, nocturnal stillness of the Cam, a glass of bubbly in hand, cinema [...]
Tags: cambridge · cambridgeshire film festival · champagne · evening · punting
Walking towards the Wash
August 19th, 2009 2 Comments
I didn’t want to leave the North of East Anglia without getting to the sea, and so I drove into the lanes near Kings Lynn and found a place to park and walk in the direction of the sea.
To be honest, I never found it. But it was a wonderful walk anyway.
The hedgerows are fecund [...]
Tags: the fens
Working nights
August 10th, 2009 1 Comment
Driving home late from Cambridge last night the fields were lit up by the headlights of combine harvesters – harvesting has started in earnest now the fields have dried out.
It’s wonderfully eerie.
Tags: combine harvester · harvest