East Anglian writer Tom Cox has seen the Wicker Man approximately 26 times, which may be why his photoblog is full of scarecrows. The premise is simple, he potters around the countryside with his cameraphone, occasionally borrows a dog, puts the images online.
Not always scarecrows, but they’re definitely the sinister part…
Tom Cox is currently promoting [...]
Entries from July 28th, 2009
Shadowy figures in the fields
July 28th, 2009 2 Comments
Tags: confessions of a cat man · coutnryside · scarecrows · the wicker man · tom cox
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.
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Tags: norfolk · norwich · tourist visit
What’s next?
July 24th, 2009 1 Comment
Back home from the hot, arid mountains of the Cevennes and the skies are overflowing with rain. The garden is bursting with life and weeds and when I took this picture out the back door a little while ago the air was full of the smell of herbs crushed by the hailstorm. The corn is [...]
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Holiday
July 14th, 2009 No Comments
I am a thousand miles away from East Anglia in the mountains, and home seems very far away. There will be a pause in posting until the 24th July while I get immersed in a completely different culture. Meanwhile, why not try some of the other east anglian blogs in the sidebar.
Cheers,
Sophie
Tags: east anglia seems very far away · holiday · south of france
Akenfield
July 9th, 2009 No Comments
It’s forty years away since the publication of Akenfield: Portrait of an English Village, but it still has an unmistakeable air of truth about it. For the uninitiated, it is a documentary book by Ronald Blythe who describes it as “this statement about living in an East Anglian village at the beginning of the second [...]
Tags: akenfield · books about east anglia · documentary · east anglia · farming · history · oral history · suffolk · village life