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Lunar cycle (almost)

25th December 2018 By Peter Fowler

Dec 9 16.20 New moon-rise
Dec 21 16.20 Moonrise over the marsh
Dec 25 08.19 Moonset at sunrise
December 22 16.34 Full-moon-rise beyond the wood

Surreal in Suffolk V: jay-walkers take precedence over vehicles

Sometime last year a rather surprising, printed bill-board appeared by the cross-roads with the traffic lights on the main southerly approach into Saxmundham (the old A12 before the by-pass was built). The notice was attached to the post carrying the town’s coat of arms. Its somewhat unusual message was that people walked in the road […]

Easel as she goes

This time last year I identified three big domestic objectives to be targeted in 2021. One was to have the whole of the interior of the house redecorated. This was achieved in October. Don’t ask me about the other two objectives, though one of them is top of the list to be done in 2022. […]

The Sitting Enigma

Everybody here is standing, but that is not the case in the (proper) version of the well-known carol ‘While shepherds watched …’. What were they watching? – their flocks of course. Over decades of singing this carol, I have always unthinkingly imagined the shepherds were watching their flocks ‘all seated on the ground.’ But were […]

Have I died?

I did not send any cards for the Xmas just gone; though I phoned or e-mailed many friends and acquaintances on my card list, but not all. A result is that, by New Year’s Day, I have received a few enquiries from people I did not contact – enquiries in some cases delicately phrased – […]

Surreal in Suffolk IV: on another beach

A larger than life-size statue of a human figure, made entirely from horshoes, appeared on a Suffolk beach near Covehithe; and then disappeared. This story, and the image below, are taken from the on-line version of a local newspaper.

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