The Sincerest For Of Poetry
Apprenticed To My Mother
Walking Into Trouble
Dead Flies and Sherry Trifle
The Last Will Of Sven Andersen
Booms And Busts
Buster & Moo
Salisbury Square
My Father and Other Liars
Life In A Conversation
Life, in a Grain of Sand
Life In A Flash
Category Archives: suffolk
Even In The Wet
I don’t know about you but it’s been pretty bloody grim weather wise. I don’t usually reach for Scottish vernacular but dreich sums it up nicely. What to do? Reorganise my sock drawer? Sharpen my extensive collection of HB pencils? … Continue reading
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Framlingham, An Ed And A Castle
Another day, another delightful Suffolk town. It has one of those celebrity claims as the home town of Ed Sheeran one of whose sings references the Norman castle. Apparently. Go have a look, or listen, if you’re interested. Me, I … Continue reading
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Woodbridge, Part Two
We left off at the church. From the grand portico and narrow set of steps lead through a narrow passage to the market square. The route I took passed more of the beautifully preserved houses I explored last time. I … Continue reading
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Woodbridge Medieval Splendours
I’ve meant to get to Woodbridge for sometime. And then, when I did, my phone died so I had to return. Woodbridge is near Ipswich and was named the happiest place to live in Britain at the end of 2024. … Continue reading
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View From the Back
As you’ll know we are basing ourselves in Suffolk while house is reno’ed. Opening the back door the land falls away across a meadow before reaching the flood plain through which the River Blyth snakes. When it floods at this … Continue reading
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That Sealed It
Apparently Britain’s coastline, apart from being very long, mostly cold and visually splendid is home to forty percent of the world’s grey seal population. And a stretch from the Suffolk-Norfolk border going north is one such spot. Now if you … Continue reading
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Aldeburgh, A Bit Of Class
Benjamin Brittain was brought up in Lowestoft, just up the coast and the place is now down at heel, living on past glories. The Aldeburgh of Brittain’s youth would have been a backwater of a place, old fashioned and out … Continue reading
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Oulton Broad, Widening Horizons
Fog. Of all the weather conditions on the meteorological menu, fog is the stodgy main that you try to avoid. It lacks character does fog. Others, like rain and hail you know when they start and stop. Not fog. Passive … Continue reading
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Last Resorts
I was back in Lowestoft, this time taking in the southern stretches. It’s very mush a classic Victorian holiday resort what with its pier and its promenade and its pavilion. It’s also rather down at heel, doing its best to … Continue reading
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Go East, As No One Said
The British Isles is often said to look like a kneeling man. If that is so then East Anglia where I’m currently residing is the buttocks and the town of Lowestoft, a small pimple on its arse. That allusion is … Continue reading
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