On 16th November the Norfolk Costume and Textile Association has organised a Vintage Fair and Tea Dance, which sounds like a lovely way to show off some of their collection of 1930s and 1940s clothing. There will be models circulating in the tea dance in costume, and the attendees will also be expected to be [...]
Entries from October 30th, 2008
Not Scotland but Suffolk
October 27th, 2008 No Comments
The thrilling sound of Red Deer calling through the mist, the locking of antlers, the majesty of a succesful male. Like an apocalyptic version of birdwatching, the stag rutting season is a seasonal event that comes to Suffolk as well as the Scottish mountains.
Red deer are native to the area around RSPB Minsmere, and the [...]
Tags: antlers · bird watching · deer · minsmere · nature · october · seasonal · stags rutting
Eight at Baldock Arts
October 24th, 2008 No Comments
Baldock in Hertfordshire is a slightly depressed town with the most glorious brick architecture from another age. It was once one of the coaching stops on the main road to London, and the doublewide high street is full of parked cars and big old inns are sadly shabby, many closed.
In a ‘Lets put on the [...]
Forage in the hedgerows
October 15th, 2008 1 Comment
After the first hard frost it is sloe picking time. They grow on blackthorns – easy to spot because they grow the same size as hawthorns but with oval leaves and really quite ferociously long thorns. They aren’t as ubiquitous as hawthorns, but most country walks in East Anglia are likely to throw up several.
This [...]
Tags: autumn · cooking · drink · fall · foraging · hedgerow · seasonal · sloe gin · sloes
A summer evening dancing
October 8th, 2008 No Comments
Totally outside the scope of this blog, in that it’s not homegrown in East Anglia and it’s not available by the weekend, but there’s one more night of the Richard Alston Dance Company at the Cambridge Arts theatre tonight. It is contemporary dance, which may make your mind glaze over and your eyes cross involuntarily, [...]
Tags: arts theatre · cambridge · contemporary · Dance · richard alston
Local, seasonal, delicious
October 4th, 2008 2 Comments
The Elbournes have been growing orchard fruit for five generations. Their farm shop in Meldreth has been there since 1967, but is only open in season – pretty much August to February. The apples there smell so much more apply than those in the supermarket – the orchards are around Meldreth and the next village, [...]
Tags: apples · autumn · cam valley orchard · cam valley orchards · cambridgeshire · food · local · meldreth · orchard · produce · seasonal