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
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
The Arts Council thinks Sleaford is in the East Midlands, but lets sneak it in here because it’s still in the Fens. Sleaford is home to The Hub National Centre for Design and Craft.
It has an energetic programme of exhibitions, courses and events that aims to encourage appreciation of design, craft and culture, and acts [...]
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
The north of East Anglia bleeds imperceptibly into the East Midlands and the sea, somewhere in Lincolnshire.
The Lincolnshire fens are, if it’s possible, even flatter and more fertile than the Cambridgeshire ones. Driving through at this time of year forcibly brings to our attention how much food is harvested here. It’s not just wheat, there [...]
Tags: boston stump · fens · Lincolnshire
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.
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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 [...]
Yesterday the rain stopped for a couple of hours of sunshine and I noticed how beautiful the fields are looking at the moment. Surely soon it will be time for the country roads to fill up with combine harvesters.
I love the repeated shapes of a whole field full of ears.
I guess this is just to [...]
Tags: corn fields · east anglia · photography
Apologies for the week of silence – I had the flu and during the course of it they took out my brains and replaced them with porridge. It’s nice to be able to more or less think again.
Meanwhile I wanted to point to the work of Cambridge based artist and printmaker Rika Newcombe, who was [...]
Tags: printmaking · rika newcombe · taxonomy