We have continued our playful act of pretending to be gallerists by mounting a small exhibition around the two main rooms chez moi. This time the theme is not conceptual but visual, showing paintings using solid blocks of colour. This note is not a … [Read more]
Mummers at Winter Solstice
We've just come back from a remarkable dramatic occasion: the Winter Solstice Play performed by the Rendham Mummers. Rendham is a village just a few miles inland from Snape. At each solstice, winter and summer twice a year, the Mummers perform a new … [Read more]
Photographs worth a Second Look
I take so many photographs on my iPhone that occasionally an image or two are bound to be worth a second look simply as a good image. Here are some which I have liked looking at more than once: some are accidentally interesting but the odd one is … [Read more]
December Miscellany
Before finishing my critique of the 'new' Sutton Hoo, I would like to insert a few notes about a selection from the many other events I have been to and things I have seen during an autumn dominated in terms of time by looking after some of the Rare … [Read more]
Sutton Hoo exhibited II
The indoor exhibition is still contained within the same large modern shed as before, but the latter has now been renamed as 'the High Hall'. Of course it is right to stress the importance of the Hall in Anglo-Saxon life but any illusion that this … [Read more]
Sutton Hoo exhibited I
As some previous posts have indicated, I have been visiting Sutton Hoo throughout the summer out of interest to note how the £4 million+ -worth of revamping of the site for visitors has developed. I have not been involved in the scheme in … [Read more]
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