Month: October 2006
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Waves across the Ocean
On Monday I went to one of the regular lunchtime talks at CRASSH. totally fascinating discussion and talk by Margaret Rigaud-Drayton lecturer in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages about Word and Image in Guillaume Apollinaire’s ‘Lettre-Ocean’. This, apparently, is a fictional letter written to his brother in Mexico. Personally I think it’s a neat way of expressing…
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A day in The Valley of the Nar
On Sunday I ventured with Caroline into the Nar Valley, we met Ellee at the Ostrich and my new found friends JollyMolly, Sally in Norfolk, Adrian_rtq, The Hound and Millstream from The Ramblers forum for a walk on either side of The Nar from Castle Acre to Narborough. The profile of the walk from someone…
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Waves across the Ocean
On Monday I went to one of the regular lunchtime talks at CRASSH. totally fascinating discussion and talk by Margaret Rigaud-Drayton lecturer in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages about Word and Image in Guillaume Apollinaire’s ‘Lettre-Ocean’. This, apparently, is a fictional letter written to his brother in Mexico. Personally I think it’s a neat way of expressing…
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A day in The Valley of the Nar
On Sunday I ventured with Caroline into the Nar Valley, we met Ellee at the Ostrich and my new found friends JollyMolly, Sally in Norfolk, Adrian_rtq, The Hound and Millstream from The Ramblers forum for a walk on either side of The Nar from Castle Acre to Narborough. The profile of the walk from someone…
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A busy Saturday
First back from Nicks having completed, at last, the installation of his Arke compact staircase and then straight to Cambridge Rugby Union Football Club for the lunch and match against the Bees (Bradford and Bingley) who Cambridge soundly thrashed at 41 -17 an excellent game and also good lunch in the Camstead suite with Philip and his…
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A busy Saturday
First back from Nicks having completed, at last, the installation of his Arke compact staircase and then straight to Cambridge Rugby Union Football Club for the lunch and match against the Bees (Bradford and Bingley) who Cambridge soundly thrashed at 41 -17 an excellent game and also good lunch in the Camstead suite with Philip and his…
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The Kentmere Horseshoe
On Saturday George and I did the Kentmere Horseshoe in The Lake District. The weather was foul with a couple of very heavy showers and low visibility virtually all the day. Still it was very enjoyable. The image is the memory-map route that we fed into the GPS. For those of you who want to see…
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A day on the beach..
On Sunday George works on Southport pier so I thought it would be a good excuse to do a bit more of the round Britain barefoot coastal walk. George dropped me off at Crosby so that I could walk the 15miles on the beach back to Southport. I was lucky enough to see some of…
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The Kentmere Horseshoe
On Saturday George and I did the Kentmere Horseshoe in The Lake District. The weather was foul with a couple of very heavy showers and low visibility virtually all the day. Still it was very enjoyable. The image is the memory-map route that we fed into the GPS. For those of you who want to see…
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A day on the beach..
On Sunday George works on Southport pier so I thought it would be a good excuse to do a bit more of the round Britain barefoot coastal walk. George dropped me off at Crosby so that I could walk the 15miles on the beach back to Southport. I was lucky enough to see some of…