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Putti and Dragons; Sweary Mary and Beowulf; and the Silk Road
I got to UCL too late to join the students on their way to Whitehall to demonstrate against the tuition fee increases, they’d already left; but I still had to squeeze past the vastly increased security presence (although this just … Continue reading
Posted in archaeology/history, books, landscape, science
Tagged angels, archaeoastronomy, art, Beowulf, british library, Clive Ruggles, dragons, English, fairies, ICOMOS, putti, Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Roger Wotton, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Silk Road, Tim Williams, UCL, UCL Lunchtime Lectures, World Heritage SItes
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Silver River by Virginia Spiers, with paintings by Mary Martin
I’ve been waiting for this for a while and today my copy arrived, and it was worth the wait – it’s a lovely book, published by the Tamar Valley AONB. Virginia Spiers has been writing Guardian Country Diaries since 1994, … Continue reading
Posted in books, landscape
Tagged art, Cornwall, Mary Martin, River Tamar, Silver RIver, Tamar Valley, Virginia Spiers
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Silver River by Virginia Spiers & Mary Martin
I always look forward to Virginia Spiers’s Country Diary articles in The Guardian, and am always particularly pleased when they describe her native Tamar Valley, as this is an area I am very fond of. I also look forward to … Continue reading
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Tagged art, Cornwall, Mary Martin, River Tamar, Silver RIver, Tamar Valley, Virginia Spiers
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Temple Newsam, John James Audubon & Lady Hertford (Vandal)
Yesterday I travelled from Cambridge to my sister Maisie’s farm deep in fenland to visit and stay the night. I missed seeing Francis, my brother-in-law, as he’s filming in Northumberland, but was enthusiastically greeted by Jane (on left), well fed … Continue reading
