“These waves are claws, the boat is caught in them, you can feel it.” Theo van Gogh’s reaction to Hokusai’s ‘Under the Wave off Kanagawa’ Hokusai’s vivid emotion echoes, a great wave of Prussian blues, each line curling, echoing in its own splash, all born of a daily exorcism to limber up the brush: painting […]
Tag: Echoes of my Neighbourhood
Echoes of Bluebell Woods
Between the trees it’s blue, as if the sky had fallen and been transformed into nodding blooms, all-knowing fairy traps of truth. It’s a soft echo of blue, a Beltane pool to dive into and be swept away by a current of old magic. Kim M. Russell, 2017 Image found on Pinterest My response to […]
A Mile of Daffs
A haibun for Jacqui’s Echoes of my Neighbourhood over on A Cooking Pot and Twisted Tales On Sunday 3rd April, locals in our area will take part in Daffodil Day, when the daffodils, planted some years ago along a mile-long lane next to Honing Church, are expected to be in full blossom. You can walk […]
North Norfolk Mammoth
My response to Jane Dougherty’s Poetry challenge #24: Cleave poem and dVerse Poets Pub Open Link Night #169 At the feet of crumbling cliffs / Norfolk juts its chin at the North Sea Below sand and gravel / stubborn and defiant as Canute Deposited by glaciers / in the flattened landscape Over a million years ago […]
Some of my neighbours
My small contribution to Jacqui’s From Here To There….Echoes Of My Neighbourhood over on A Cooking Pot and Twisted Tales. My plans to get out and about taking photographs of some of the many windmills in our neighbourhood (all in different states of repair) have been thwarted by the randomness of the weather and revising Chapters […]
Some more echoes from my neighbourhood
This week I am staying closer to home for my contribution to Jacqui’s Echoes over on A Cooking Pot and Twisted Tales. The name of our village comes from a plant that has always grown there – dill. We still have a large clump at the front of our house. We also have a bay […]
Last Sunday’s walk on the beach
I couldn’t see an episode of Jacqueline Oby-Ikocha’s ‘Echoes of my Neighbourhood’ today but I thought I’d post this anyway. Update: Jacqui has posted her ninth edition. As you will see from the poem I posted yesterday, ‘Your shoes will make you happy today’, a response to the dVerse poets ‘as the cookie crumbles’ Chinese New Year prompt, my […]
More about my neighbourhood
For this week’s edition of Jacqueline’s ‘Echoes of My Neighbourhood’ #8, I have photographs of two quintessentially British landmarks. Last week I shared pictures of our village sign, a huge oak in the centre of the village and fields in the flat landscape of Norfolk. I also mentioned a pub and a church. Outside the pub there […]
Thursday 28th January 2016
This is my second contribution to Jacqueline’s ‘Echoes of My Neighbourhood’ challenge. Every Thursday we share photos of our neighbourhood and link them to Jacqueline’s post. Last week we saw photographs of sunny Maui, learned something about Filipino martial arts, shivered at snow in various places, salivated at gorgeous fruit and saw any number of interesting buildings and […]
Thursday 21st January 2016
This is my first contribution to Jacqueline’s ‘Echoes of My Neighbourhood’ challenge. Every Thursday we share photos of our neighbourhood and link them to Jacqueline’s post. I’m looking forward to seeing all the different places in which WordPress bloggers live, work and play! When I go out of the gate at the bottom of our back garden, […]
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