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Tag Archives: Norwich
Scratching the Earth
To begin the New Year, here is a piece on something close to home and close to heart - allotments. I touched on this subject briefly last year in my post on Dacha. The feature below originally appeared in Issue 3 of the … Continue reading
Posted in History, Norfolk, wildlife
Tagged allotments, Diggers, Enclosure Act, growing vegetables, Manor Gardens, Norwich
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The Tarka Trail
There’s a walk through Norwich’s western edgeland that Jackie and I must have done a hundred times. It begins close to a supermarket at Eaton, Norwich’s wealthy southern suburb, and follows the bank of the meandering River Yare upstream towards the broad … Continue reading
A River Wensum Walk
Early April in Norwich. It’s cool but the sky is blue and daffodils are glistening in Wordsworthian tribute to the bright spring sunshine. What better then than a morning stroll through the city along the banks of the River Wensum? Like many cities – even … Continue reading
Patience (After Sebald) – Walking The Rings of Saturn
About a year ago I wrote a post about an Aldeburgh Music weekend at Suffolk’s Snape Maltings that celebrated the life and works of the writer W G Sebald. A new film by Grant Gee, Patience (After Sebald), was also previewed on that … Continue reading
Posted in film, Literature, Walking
Tagged Norfolk, Norwich, psychogeography, Suffolk, W G Sebald
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The Writing on the Wall
Just up the road from where I live there is a large black-painted gable wall that bears the legend ‘PINK FLOYD’ in large bold white letters. Clearly, it was a gesture made using good quality paint as it has been there … Continue reading
Dancing about Architecture
St Peter Mancroft Church, Norwich, May 19 Yesterday’s BBC Radio 4 Today programme included a short feature on the 73 year-old American jazz bassist Charlie Haden. In the interview Haden discussed his musical history and how he had started out singing with his family in … Continue reading
Norwich Wolves
Norwich Wolves. Not a Premier League football fixture (that should happen next season now that it looks less likely that Wolverhampton Wanderers will be relegated) but this year’s opening of the annual Norwich and Norfolk Festival. As with most years, some dramatic street theatre has been … Continue reading
Posted in music, Norfolk
Tagged festival, Norfolk, Norfolk and Norwich festival, Norwich, street theatre
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Norwich Underground
Norwich’s network of underground passageways is the stuff of legends. Many of them may be the work of over-active imaginations but others undoubtedly do exist as relics of the city’s medieval glory days when a little subterranean expediency came in … Continue reading
Posted in History, Norfolk
Tagged Bolivia, chalk, flint, mines, Norwich, tunnels, underground
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W.G.Sebald, In Memoriam
The UEA-based German writer, W. G. (‘Max’) Sebald, died just over nine years ago in a car accident close to his home south of Norwich. One of his most famous books, and certainly the one most closely connected with the … Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Suffolk, Walking
Tagged Aldeburgh, Dunwich, East Anglia, Norfolk, Norwich, Snape Maltings, Suffolk, Thomas Browne, W G Sebald
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Cromer New Year, 2011
Many of us feel a need to mark the turning of the year in some way other than simply customary overindulgence on the eve of the old year – an outing to some favoured spot on New Year’s Day perhaps? … Continue reading
