This weekend is the monthly auction at Willingham, a small village northwest of Cambridge.
The auction house is a series of beautiful old brick barns, set around a gravelled courtyard, and to me it beats shopping on Ebay hands down, especially for furniture.
Auctions are held on Saturdays and the drill is that if you arrive at [...]
Entries from January 28th, 2009
A motherlode of beautiful furniture
January 28th, 2009 1 Comment
Tags: auction · edwardian · furniture · georgian · retro · victorian · vintage · willingham · willingham auctions
Wysing Contemporary
January 16th, 2009 2 Comments
Wysing Arts Centre is opening a new exhibition this weekend under the Wysing Contemporary banner, with a launch event on Saturday from 4pm with Matthew Slotover, director of the Frieze Art Fair. Greatness comes to the countryside!
Wysing is interesting because it is one of these architecturally ambitious buildings tucked deep in the countryside, which functions [...]
Tags: art · bourn · cambridgeshire · contemporary art · gallery · opening · wysing
Aliens – they’re not from round here
January 15th, 2009 1 Comment
Who knew that Suffolk would be considered “a key area for alien visitors to the earth – a link between their world and ours” (by Brenda Butler, who has cowritten a book about alien landings in Rendlesham Forest).
In December 1980 there was a celebrated UFO incident with unexplained lights in the forest close to an [...]
Tags: rendlesham forest · suffolk · UFO · walks
Frozen fenlands
January 11th, 2009 1 Comment
It has been cold enough this last week that the old sport of Fenland skating has been revived, with speed skaters out on the frozen flooded fields, the way they have since the early part of the nineteenth century.
It’s a little warmer today, but local commentators are hoping for a further cold snap so the [...]
Tags: fen · ice skating · skating · speed skating · winter