In Walden we’re blessed with an abundance of charity shops, well stocked with vintage newspapers, magazines, books, records and printed ephemera. Yesterday I found four copies of “Science News”, a quarterly paperback published by Penguin in 1957. Read More >
Late afternoon run out of town as light was failing. Still a good covering of snow on the fields. (B1052 to the Newport Roundabout, B1383 to Littlebury, B184 back into Walden). Read More >
August and I walked from Walden to Catmere End, to retrieve my car after late night fun at Lisa and Mike’s and then Vicky and Steve’s parties. Bright crisp morning. Climbing over the top we found the last of the snow and some trees covered in very yellow lychen. Read More >
Made our way through the snow to a great party in the town youth hostel last night. It’s a mad building – the oldest in Walden from around 1490. Read More >
Looked round a listed property being stripped out prior to renovation. Evening: fading light – shot on N95 camera phone. Will return once completely empty and re-shoot but like the low quality effect with artefacts and strange colour casts. Read More >
Improvised fence/bridge across a stream. Morning: A muddy hollow amongst trees, adjacent to a footpath that runs between Audley End House and the golf course, close to the County High School. Read More >
Animal tracks in an abandoned chalk pit, now nature reserve, off single track road that runs from Catmere End to Ickleton.
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Drove out of Walden and parked in a lay-by. Went for a run. The countryside’s looking pretty spent. The land here is chalky and when it’s dry it cracks. Stubble fields are being ploughed under, making billowing clouds of dust – man-size whirlwinds can be seen crossing the fields.
Thaxted with Vicky and Steve for the Morris. We are their groupies. Fun in the church yard, grave jumping and wasp baiting with bottled coke and IPA. Fish, chips and mushy peas in the Swan’s dungeon with the Feral 5. Read More >
Met old London/RCA friends, Fleur and Jacky and families at Fleur’s great place in Littlehampton. Haven’t seen them for ages. Good to see them again. Used to be regularly pissed together at college shows, or at each other’s houses in North London. Really regularly. Really pissed. Read More >