tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52555651307134975082024-03-13T00:13:49.719+00:00Tim Baynes ArtIdeas,pictures and art as it occurs.Tim Baynes Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17000787330589541085noreply@blogger.comBlogger1329125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5255565130713497508.post-28026475316905854462023-06-09T19:58:00.003+01:002023-06-10T20:16:04.593+01:00 FROM HIGH UP ON THE RIDGEWAY<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioFbsNYAJBfUB1LLH4EqKF7J3G8jf7EW7ZaI_-bHVS-KYWA4cqi-pz0DgRkO__naCX3wH0uy_WJbIuARAkHmjIburTneUOXNL-8_XIumhOmNmoGzb4p9kR5dYD1ONRDdoDoL2XhNW351WI_eY8rrco3HKq2H_1V1gJ6bv0cbEDuRzvtR3mgYfxBslrng/s3538/IMG_1827.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2216" data-original-width="3538" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioFbsNYAJBfUB1LLH4EqKF7J3G8jf7EW7ZaI_-bHVS-KYWA4cqi-pz0DgRkO__naCX3wH0uy_WJbIuARAkHmjIburTneUOXNL-8_XIumhOmNmoGzb4p9kR5dYD1ONRDdoDoL2XhNW351WI_eY8rrco3HKq2H_1V1gJ6bv0cbEDuRzvtR3mgYfxBslrng/w400-h250/IMG_1827.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />Across three counties </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;">From high up on The Ridgeway, in West Berkshire, only 35 minutes from home is Uffington Castle. It is an Iron Age hillfort. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;">Standing on its footprint on the landscape you can look out north-west across Berkshire, Gloucestershire into Worcestershire. A patchwork of fields, farms, factories and towns. This infinity view eventually pales into purple haze.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;">Of course this is just a place to put a castle. Next to it is The White Horse, across the grass, a chalk symbol of how important this area was. And still is. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;">The castle borders The Ridgeway, an ancient road that is ideal for the movement of troops and trade. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;">Looking down, just below us to the right is Dragon Hill a small apron of white chalk. It was on this ground that is rightly believed that St George fought his dragon. Who is to gain say St George’s joust?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;">For more on the myths and legends hereabouts follow the link. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;">Many thanks to David Nash’s <i>Royal Berkshire History</i> web site <a href="http://www.berkshirehistory.com/castles/uffington_castle_hillfort.html" style="color: #954f72;">http://www.berkshirehistory.com/castles/uffington_castle_hillfort.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;"> </span><span style="font-family: Avenir;">© Nash Ford Publishing 2003. All Rights Reserved.</span></p>Tim Baynes Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17000787330589541085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5255565130713497508.post-46329189881037479712023-06-03T19:03:00.001+01:002023-06-03T19:03:00.137+01:00 SAND AND SHRAPNEL BETWEEN YOUR TOES<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX9rIF2ZfGVkghPUUlsgcVLM6NA_pdnnTFnjn5gFNnQdfZz7VSEGIQhoWBXGTxRIpx3LD3M5J6kPzzz7DoPGfUd15JBJtsU-v0mLL9LwAFMdW-Yvd_nyFSGXCL44tjiWjc1imDrX3St66oRQGc3dgBIzNWzlCfZXyfPApL2JCuJVgbycGQiHaE2B3aYA/s4860/AC4C83D6-B671-4EE8-BC81-CC3B59061AC2.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3642" data-original-width="4860" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX9rIF2ZfGVkghPUUlsgcVLM6NA_pdnnTFnjn5gFNnQdfZz7VSEGIQhoWBXGTxRIpx3LD3M5J6kPzzz7DoPGfUd15JBJtsU-v0mLL9LwAFMdW-Yvd_nyFSGXCL44tjiWjc1imDrX3St66oRQGc3dgBIzNWzlCfZXyfPApL2JCuJVgbycGQiHaE2B3aYA/w400-h300/AC4C83D6-B671-4EE8-BC81-CC3B59061AC2.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"><p><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"><br /></span></p>Ginst Point, the end of the known world.</span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"> </span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Name: Ginst Point, Carmarthenshire (Sir Gaerfyrddin) ; X/Y co-ords: 232825, 207811 ; Region: Wales ; Country: Wales ; Place type: Other Landform. </span><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: Ordinance Survey</span><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";">A stretch of sand, grass and debris that is wide and broad and looks to the estuary of the River Taff and across to Llansteffan Castle and the never to missed holiday homes of Carmarthen Bay. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";">Ginst Point the blunt end of a six mile beach.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";">High sun, a small breeze.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";">Rosie the dog,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";">Jacky the wonder dog,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";">Jacky collects sticks and will steal a sandal.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";">He will return it later.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";">Sian and Miss Megan,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";">And Barney, a merman*,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";">We walk, sit and get our feet wet,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";">Again we plonk ourselves down on a midday warm sand.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";">And on the walk back we found treasure, per usual.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZyQO1gvlpk0ppMwxlxCn1Y09GXg8T_JNOpiyD2yl34pfoBTb0KhJmmScTEUwNpeg6WZpJoVmnaUaoy1GowO73y-DDjNsGZIZfLnwqdP9fYt0GXi46zmHpAZN-YKJgQ0sEUTMPB0w_9VUseVAnOgxPkUcfPRgt3-lD4gKJQg8Yt4-lAdDcGeN6F_wbNA/s3054/C48D6022-AC05-43F5-8CA3-2E15E5DED142_1_201_a.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1857" data-original-width="3054" height="195" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZyQO1gvlpk0ppMwxlxCn1Y09GXg8T_JNOpiyD2yl34pfoBTb0KhJmmScTEUwNpeg6WZpJoVmnaUaoy1GowO73y-DDjNsGZIZfLnwqdP9fYt0GXi46zmHpAZN-YKJgQ0sEUTMPB0w_9VUseVAnOgxPkUcfPRgt3-lD4gKJQg8Yt4-lAdDcGeN6F_wbNA/s320/C48D6022-AC05-43F5-8CA3-2E15E5DED142_1_201_a.heic" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />Shrapnel Everywhere</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWsKf4UgCT6ERJLQEUX2tpmMR26U3XKWIzsXzEcAQFsukvNFSScbgXfvEzoxnCCQ5p4yXb0N78ap9M9LAFIr7iKkAbyCp7xe5Inm_lBEE-h9UkwuXWTknMc9IfBdK7zs5Peue6Uz99r-RDOnxjW7TnRsrSsAWZbgRIVnJnBKYl0fWae56bmQI2Dw-S_w/s3876/8C04E4B7-2BEA-4BAF-A7D0-702EFCAF2356_1_201_a.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2907" data-original-width="3876" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWsKf4UgCT6ERJLQEUX2tpmMR26U3XKWIzsXzEcAQFsukvNFSScbgXfvEzoxnCCQ5p4yXb0N78ap9M9LAFIr7iKkAbyCp7xe5Inm_lBEE-h9UkwuXWTknMc9IfBdK7zs5Peue6Uz99r-RDOnxjW7TnRsrSsAWZbgRIVnJnBKYl0fWae56bmQI2Dw-S_w/s320/8C04E4B7-2BEA-4BAF-A7D0-702EFCAF2356_1_201_a.heic" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br />A toilet chain thrown overboard from a passing ship? </span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">*<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merman" style="color: #954f72;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merman</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Ginst Point is accessible through Brill Gate (SN 28902 07980) when the Range is not operational. Public access is permitted if the automatic gate is open. Please DO NOT attempt to enter if the gate is closed. Anyone wishing to gain access to the residential tenant farms must contact the Main Gate using the intercom system situated at Brill Gate.</span> <a href="https://www.qinetiq.com/en/pendine/public-access/brill-gate-and-ginst-point" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.qinetiq.com/en/pendine/public-access/brill-gate-and-ginst-point</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"> </span></p><p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"> </span></p>Tim Baynes Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17000787330589541085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5255565130713497508.post-67878066522660169422023-05-27T19:08:00.001+01:002023-05-27T19:08:00.134+01:00 TREASURE TWO MINUTES FROM THE THAMES<p><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjs0Jv7a7YzCoesO9k9XMyYc5vd9MQQa9N_Ce9-9FtllhAdMWujfu-8SYwB76COYmP3FdqA7oknANTC335btyGV9CHK88nfeZPMQjAmSuYBYs2XJ0Wr3ihzbH4gsff8Ix5ig-GhL6nQvN-rgCaiGxpEZFXoHBNfWw7pOsx_00EnH2pV5Te9gewmate0A/s3253/IMG_1567.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3253" data-original-width="2209" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjs0Jv7a7YzCoesO9k9XMyYc5vd9MQQa9N_Ce9-9FtllhAdMWujfu-8SYwB76COYmP3FdqA7oknANTC335btyGV9CHK88nfeZPMQjAmSuYBYs2XJ0Wr3ihzbH4gsff8Ix5ig-GhL6nQvN-rgCaiGxpEZFXoHBNfWw7pOsx_00EnH2pV5Te9gewmate0A/w271-h400/IMG_1567.jpeg" width="271" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";">The mid-morning light streams in illuminating the gentle flecks of dust and remarkable wall paintings of St John the Baptist church Inglesham. We can see </span><div><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";">St Christopher as he was portrayed in the 1200’s and make out some of The Ten Commandments above the nave arch.</span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";">Box Pews, overseen by an equally grand pulpit, all faded and polished by time. Worship from wonderful <i>Book of Common Prayer</i> (1662) was given and received by all who sat in this wonderful church.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";">Sit, think, absorb the walls, roof and furniture of this special place now cared for by the Churches Conservation Trust and loved by many, judging from the visitor’s book by the door.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";">Miss not the Saxon stone Madonna and Child in the south wall.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";">All within striking distance of Lechlade and Faringdon.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYsGXBkyYkd98Ej0-euByYPCbWGXmpWNsAzNSMG_JMRHPFaVem-qTvz8mI0VGV4UbaruW4itjlmidmz1tqH2IDAt7pJXFLchlxvQl712VNgwIvcmzOVYWwGcoFtQxIFzG1AhEEPZZuCdcdEXLRtyn_fVZy8Fmmz41jSS_FEQmCNyLSebIDiFFnh8mRIQ/s4232/St%20John%20the%20Baptist%20%20Inglesham.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4232" data-original-width="2970" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYsGXBkyYkd98Ej0-euByYPCbWGXmpWNsAzNSMG_JMRHPFaVem-qTvz8mI0VGV4UbaruW4itjlmidmz1tqH2IDAt7pJXFLchlxvQl712VNgwIvcmzOVYWwGcoFtQxIFzG1AhEEPZZuCdcdEXLRtyn_fVZy8Fmmz41jSS_FEQmCNyLSebIDiFFnh8mRIQ/w281-h400/St%20John%20the%20Baptist%20%20Inglesham.jpg" width="281" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: x-small;">Peaceful interior <br /><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table>An excellent more measured story of this church by Churches Conservation Trust is here. <a href="https://www.visitchurches.org.uk/visit/church-listing/st-john-inglesham.html" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.visitchurches.org.uk/visit/church-listing/st-john-inglesham.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS3cAn8WhKDOOcgOMi3AsFxG3nT-Q-cJwB5raGMDDXlvJRhpKuSRm5mrvVsx1L1jLFLbULsSRASQcsp-dizUGbJ-rxEzXFqtmln2zSiJsk2xACbEm3BAJqaNPaUf2sCSdfLNYdO7kPDvNFJILUG4yjO_ucbYCn9eyoIQ7L8vUJbN3rRnq6uFVSU6Qp1w/s1704/John%20Piper%20Inglesham%20Church%201948.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1704" height="450" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS3cAn8WhKDOOcgOMi3AsFxG3nT-Q-cJwB5raGMDDXlvJRhpKuSRm5mrvVsx1L1jLFLbULsSRASQcsp-dizUGbJ-rxEzXFqtmln2zSiJsk2xACbEm3BAJqaNPaUf2sCSdfLNYdO7kPDvNFJILUG4yjO_ucbYCn9eyoIQ7L8vUJbN3rRnq6uFVSU6Qp1w/w640-h450/John%20Piper%20Inglesham%20Church%201948.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /><span style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: x-small;">by John Piper who visited Inglesham in 1948</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><br /></p></div>Tim Baynes Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17000787330589541085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5255565130713497508.post-52767393004149941592023-05-12T19:22:00.001+01:002023-05-12T19:22:00.148+01:00 THE HIDDEN WELL<p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;">A couple of miles south of us is the hamlet of Stoke Purton a few miles further is</span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;">Purton village.</span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;">Seeking a new route for a Rosie walk we headed to Stoke Purton and walked along a No Through Road road. The OS map indicated something called a Salts Hole. We came upon it. There was a low gate in a thick hedge secured by a stout combination lock. About a hundred metres beyond stood a Victorian gothic hexagonal building with a stout door, elegant gabled roof. Around this summerhouse-like building undergrowth, trees and bushes battled for supremacy.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqszNGG5npsWiHSCZh3EtxPnR-1XeCztEJptvwqJbBt3uOCNLF3O6CqNlNC69L8AKbvm74PEhpO5GAytK2ZvArJ5H5MIXBmB5cQjZXp38TIZaDKapHsVrS5-Cg1HkFQHgywknL7b5L5UsyzMjOZ9inNzzU61NXT0i2M7WTWWiV0ybN5DTRZHoFG5qUSA/s3634/A8469EDD-D2FF-4075-8B73-9185F451371E_1_201_a.heic" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3634" data-original-width="2466" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqszNGG5npsWiHSCZh3EtxPnR-1XeCztEJptvwqJbBt3uOCNLF3O6CqNlNC69L8AKbvm74PEhpO5GAytK2ZvArJ5H5MIXBmB5cQjZXp38TIZaDKapHsVrS5-Cg1HkFQHgywknL7b5L5UsyzMjOZ9inNzzU61NXT0i2M7WTWWiV0ybN5DTRZHoFG5qUSA/w434-h640/A8469EDD-D2FF-4075-8B73-9185F451371E_1_201_a.heic" width="434" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;">This was Salts Hole, a Victorian spa, written about by Katharine M. Jordan in <i>Seven Wiltshire Wells and their Folklore</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;">We saw the stone plaque over the door of what was the pump room.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;">THE ANCIENT SALTS HOLE. SULPHATED AND BROMO-IODATED SALINE WATER ANALYZED BY D.VOELCKER 1880<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;">For local people around here used saline water from the spring to cure many ills.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;">In 1850s its owner drained the area and fenced off the spring. People soon broke the railings anxious for the heating waters, for there was no Boots in Cricklade or Lloyds in Purton at that time.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;">In her text © Katharine M. Jordan (1998) she tells <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><i><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;">“It is curious, by the way, that the only structural part of the pump-house to have disappeared should be the doors. It is well-known in Wiltshire that they have no doors in Purton: so much so that, should you forget to close the door behind you, the cry goes up: ‘D’you come from Purton?’<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;">I can testify to this having met two lovely local ladies in Purton village churchyard this morning; they corroborated the saying ‘D’you come from Purton?’. However curiously enough they had not heard of the Salts Hole a few miles away. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;">Complete source for Jordan’s text: <a href="https://insearchofholywellsandhealingsprings.com/the-source-new-series-contents/seven-wiltshire-wells-and-their-folklore/" style="color: #954f72;">https://insearchofholywellsandhealingsprings.com/the-source-new-series-contents/seven-wiltshire-wells-and-their-folklore/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;">I have ordered a copy of <i>Folklore of Ancient Wiltshire</i>, 1990<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;">by Katharine M. Jordan and eagerly await more discoveries hereabouts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>Tim Baynes Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17000787330589541085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5255565130713497508.post-31872409752449913562023-05-03T19:54:00.005+01:002023-05-03T19:54:00.140+01:00 ALL SAINTS AT THE END OF HOSPITAL ROAD<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz4RDGg7AbULRpMdlwK7CnZUyS8FOye56Vx8hPGYrA3NStNbjDhF1xdp5fCbv0CUEQYXvB4tR1r80ScokCKpHTm8ncWTQXBGAdYlssVHWatMSuEawq4bGZ-pwr8z5I7SOGyumpUi5zTxhtN1F4WRQHziac00J8URspGZX_fIxf_4T-L7FgI2BALGg8iQ/s3323/513AA281-916E-4740-836D-8C5D24758561_1_201_a.heic" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3323" data-original-width="2240" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhz4RDGg7AbULRpMdlwK7CnZUyS8FOye56Vx8hPGYrA3NStNbjDhF1xdp5fCbv0CUEQYXvB4tR1r80ScokCKpHTm8ncWTQXBGAdYlssVHWatMSuEawq4bGZ-pwr8z5I7SOGyumpUi5zTxhtN1F4WRQHziac00J8URspGZX_fIxf_4T-L7FgI2BALGg8iQ/w270-h400/513AA281-916E-4740-836D-8C5D24758561_1_201_a.heic" width="270" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /><span style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: x-small;">Built by the Knights Templars - All Saints Down Ampney</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><span style="font-family: Avenir; text-align: justify;">Almost asleep, in spite of being so close to the A419 Cirencester to Swindon superhighway, is Down Ampney Village. It is best known as the birthplace of composer Ralph Vaughan Williams.</span><span style="font-family: Avenir; text-align: justify;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Avenir;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;">During WWII Down Ampney was home to the Royal Airforce </span><span style="font-family: Avenir;">1944 until 1947</span><span style="font-family: Avenir;">. From here the 3</span><sup style="font-family: Avenir;">rd </sup><span style="font-family: Avenir;">Parachute Brigade were dropped in Normandy. And forces who flew from here were active in Arnhem and the Rhine Crossing. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;">The same squadrons flew the wounded, tended by RAF nurses, home. </span><span style="font-family: Avenir;">The busy road, a straight line from the tarmac to where the wounded were taken became known as ‘hospital road’ by all stationed there. Now it is a lovely walk between to large fields of sheep and bears right to am RAF Memorial.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Avenir;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;">And close by is All Saints Church with its striking C14 spire. In this treasure ladened church, built by the Templers is a memorial window to the men and women of the Royal Air Force who took part in operations originating from RAF Down Ampney during WWII. A commemorative service is held each year.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;">More on RAF Down Ampney here </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Down_Ampney" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Down_Ampney</span></a></span></p>Tim Baynes Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17000787330589541085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5255565130713497508.post-30059910883930611092023-04-21T19:49:00.010+01:002023-04-21T19:49:00.163+01:00RETURN TO GARN FAWR<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMzdAzrNlplvOqGxJZ0x9Ac25P9xZgoQLSla6MwQOydoN_zfW0_pxO_jFb_ZaHusfaz_2fin7OWihZM-i1FufZiCdV3eGDrOWFB0W9Xz7U8_l54Eh_KEQx0z3gQBEG3A5qOFbtNszL5YfzzmVfv994ZzbN60FmONLQGpwufpZ6xmvaVvitw9mZ7xQlsA/s3365/From%20Piper's%20cottage.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2341" data-original-width="3365" height="279" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMzdAzrNlplvOqGxJZ0x9Ac25P9xZgoQLSla6MwQOydoN_zfW0_pxO_jFb_ZaHusfaz_2fin7OWihZM-i1FufZiCdV3eGDrOWFB0W9Xz7U8_l54Eh_KEQx0z3gQBEG3A5qOFbtNszL5YfzzmVfv994ZzbN60FmONLQGpwufpZ6xmvaVvitw9mZ7xQlsA/w400-h279/From%20Piper's%20cottage.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFrrwMRIv5TWL1i7Ewqb-U3274FAisVdNgkWQSAgQ12lSmuriN9cJuhUPjUNT4Kj4Rnq8J8S3m5T4bPBouokvW1ioNeyGGcKXVyR1AK_wRkK1f9gssD_elhxtOMtJQtITc0byN3L8jllewI0Y7LYpHsOChXNHGK6E1cxC0C6VPMA-3RCe-B0YfNT6PmQ/s3500/Looking%20up%20to%20Piper's%20cottage%20.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2434" data-original-width="3500" height="446" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFrrwMRIv5TWL1i7Ewqb-U3274FAisVdNgkWQSAgQ12lSmuriN9cJuhUPjUNT4Kj4Rnq8J8S3m5T4bPBouokvW1ioNeyGGcKXVyR1AK_wRkK1f9gssD_elhxtOMtJQtITc0byN3L8jllewI0Y7LYpHsOChXNHGK6E1cxC0C6VPMA-3RCe-B0YfNT6PmQ/w640-h446/Looking%20up%20to%20Piper's%20cottage%20.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";">It had momentarily stopped raining in West Wales. Sian and I were casting around for a jaunting destination. We decided on Garn Fawr where John Piper’s Cottage is still to be found.</span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";">About 10 minutes west out of Fishguard, Garn Fawr nestles into a high outcrop of hard volcanic rock, an iron age hill fort, which perilously looks out to see. We walked down paths bordered by high stone walls. Bracken and thorn spills across these tracks, evidence of sheep. Boulder stone with lichen of whites, greens and blues.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";">On the landward side there is slightly less wind, only slightly. Across to the East stone walls, winding roads, fields quartered by hedgerows. And landscape punctured by farms and the hard white outline of the Harmony Chapel immediately below us. In the far distance are the Preseli Mountains.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";">Writer Richard Ingrams recalls his visit to see John and Myfanwy Piper:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";">I was lucky enough to pay a visit to Garn Fawr, driving with the Pipers from Cardiff on a clear cold day and reaching the cottage at noon. It is a tiny single-storey building made of stone whitewashed with a pinkish tinge and roofed with slurry, a mixture of slate and cement. There is only one real room which acts as sitting and dining-room and the right half is roofed over with a platform, reached by a step-ladder, on the Pipers sleep. A kitchen and bathroom have been added to the rear. There is no electricity and no telephone. As dusk fall, Piper busies himself trimming and lighting calor gas and tilly lamps.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";">From <i>Piper’s Places: John Piper in England and Wales</i> by Richard Ingrams & John Piper Chatto and Windus 1983<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;">The walk: <a href="https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/wales/strumble-head-to-cardigan/garn-fawr-viewpoint-walk" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/wales/strumble-head-to-cardigan/garn-fawr-viewpoint-walk</a></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTSFIxkMM8XV2ZjH7-MDaxtsQg17p4nHCugxj5KMCT46MMmTiVsH4yRHtZbGv_Bda9qN1JbTw8BKDHFZBiHzR6pVGD_4-8iKWXII216T3r3xacvmTmb9vpOkX-1x1wp4QaJknCGr2GbMdCIxLiu-F-ztuYjfT4jAgc_S3xCwJ1yBngqTmw5fs9nPiVLA/s1578/Screenshot%202023-04-21%20at%2017.37.55.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="860" data-original-width="1578" height="348" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTSFIxkMM8XV2ZjH7-MDaxtsQg17p4nHCugxj5KMCT46MMmTiVsH4yRHtZbGv_Bda9qN1JbTw8BKDHFZBiHzR6pVGD_4-8iKWXII216T3r3xacvmTmb9vpOkX-1x1wp4QaJknCGr2GbMdCIxLiu-F-ztuYjfT4jAgc_S3xCwJ1yBngqTmw5fs9nPiVLA/w640-h348/Screenshot%202023-04-21%20at%2017.37.55.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><br /></p>Tim Baynes Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17000787330589541085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5255565130713497508.post-64337335172567513902023-03-31T18:46:00.000+01:002023-03-31T18:46:05.715+01:00 AFTER IMPRESSIONISM – THE GREAT LETTING GO<p><span style="font-family: Avenir;">Running until August 13 folks, the National Gallery’s <i>After Impressionism: Inventing modern art. </i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Avenir;">This is a thought-provoking journey showing the struggle between realism and abandonment of naturalism in painting and what Katie did next.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;">Headlined by Cezanne, Gauguin and Van Gogh this is chance to see ninety seven paintings many of which have been coaxed from private collections for our grateful gaze.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Avenir;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;">Paul Cezanne’s (1839 - 1906) still life paintings and his landscapes play ducks and drakes with volume and perspective. Van Gogh’s frantic brushwork, rhythmic patterning (?verb) and the way he crops his work is an eye opener. Edgar Degas (1834–1917) was breaking the rules on composition and a painting’s edge with his dizzying studies.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpefruYWsl2g2DbQ-8N4jMSk_ZKSzeY2dek1tTBrEtUeWq5OjC9pWdo7WcbSxyXXnfkzA6A2WlX1Wkt0nO2W4jg7gao0CjcZrZm90v_D6g8om5z7CqX5fUTt1NFiIatqUQwqPbrTslGFzwMXFfgvN47tp5vYH4qAja0goFDV5Z9rUoR3AdiuPnpQN8Yw/s1784/Paul%20Cezanne%20'Mont%20Sainte-Victoire'%20%201902%E2%80%926.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1106" data-original-width="1784" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpefruYWsl2g2DbQ-8N4jMSk_ZKSzeY2dek1tTBrEtUeWq5OjC9pWdo7WcbSxyXXnfkzA6A2WlX1Wkt0nO2W4jg7gao0CjcZrZm90v_D6g8om5z7CqX5fUTt1NFiIatqUQwqPbrTslGFzwMXFfgvN47tp5vYH4qAja0goFDV5Z9rUoR3AdiuPnpQN8Yw/w400-h248/Paul%20Cezanne%20'Mont%20Sainte-Victoire'%20%201902%E2%80%926.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;"><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Paul Cezanne 'Mont Sainte-Victoire' 1902‒6</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Avenir;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;">Gauguin takes us East, and the show’s description of his work could not resist references to '<i>colonialism'</i>, his '<i>relationships'</i> to those whom he painted and cohabited; a lest-we-forget piece of wokery if ever there was.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Avenir;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;">Lots of new names: Paul Sérusier (1864 - 1927) - his <i>Le Talisman, Paysage au Bois d'Amour </i>is early abstraction as is <i>Lady of Fashion</i> by Eduard Vuillard’s colour-field approach.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Avenir;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;">The concept of painter as commentator (which today seems to the only way a painter should be) is introduced in Jan Toorop’s 1858–1928 <i>The Eve of the Strike</i>. A palette and composition ladened with political undertones. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXTyzerGNxbqUXnJWgpD852JPwzMFpixEu7pdFHySeM8qWlor83ClXxIWVpE8spah5FiL5MwRD0_BJUZuo4Ellydnsvfcdoy9D5OTsoffOVowov2c7QfTVbrJy0FuVi8Yj1Naso3FWXMzKJYzK8EKTM-A2lpc832fjJ1PqvKzVtxi4zY018GoIuqMqDQ/s1528/The%20eve%20of%20the%20strike%20(Dark%20clouds)%20Jan%20Toorop.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1308" data-original-width="1528" height="343" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXTyzerGNxbqUXnJWgpD852JPwzMFpixEu7pdFHySeM8qWlor83ClXxIWVpE8spah5FiL5MwRD0_BJUZuo4Ellydnsvfcdoy9D5OTsoffOVowov2c7QfTVbrJy0FuVi8Yj1Naso3FWXMzKJYzK8EKTM-A2lpc832fjJ1PqvKzVtxi4zY018GoIuqMqDQ/w400-h343/The%20eve%20of%20the%20strike%20(Dark%20clouds)%20Jan%20Toorop.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /><span style="font-family: Avenir;">The eve of the strike (Dark clouds) Jan Toorop</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Avenir;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;">Surprises: A riot of colour by Edvard Munch in his 1915 painting</span><span style="font-family: Avenir;"> </span><i style="font-family: Avenir;">Cabbage Field</i><span style="font-family: Avenir;">. A scream of colour no less (sorry).</span><span style="font-family: Avenir;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Avenir;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;">Representational Mondrian? Excuse me? Yes, there are two landscape studies next to his more familiar approach in <i>Composition N<sup>o </sup>XVI.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Avenir;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;">Thrills and mysteries to enjoy and think about, demanding two if not three visits. If three then you have amortised the cost of an NG annual membership. Get and go.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQrmXo7OYEJFnIUcV2AZlgcZPlfaBinPrSNPbXcB1FxuLsxnsEq_terKIDkaHfRIUIyVs6r4WdIUAsqHaDK_87ypKb2TawShgs4h7mQPUnNbIuGYEEmsiLLTwI8OV_99Vj_3wl7AXKcLH-W-BNR2wQVwzm0l0CAIHjSPCsW0iTGInkgk_04J139gKUlQ/s1798/Andre%CC%81%20Derain,%20%E2%80%98La%20Danse%E2%80%99.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1082" data-original-width="1798" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQrmXo7OYEJFnIUcV2AZlgcZPlfaBinPrSNPbXcB1FxuLsxnsEq_terKIDkaHfRIUIyVs6r4WdIUAsqHaDK_87ypKb2TawShgs4h7mQPUnNbIuGYEEmsiLLTwI8OV_99Vj_3wl7AXKcLH-W-BNR2wQVwzm0l0CAIHjSPCsW0iTGInkgk_04J139gKUlQ/w400-h241/Andre%CC%81%20Derain,%20%E2%80%98La%20Danse%E2%80%99.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: x-small;"><br />André Derain, ‘La Danse’</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: Avenir;"><br /></span></p>Tim Baynes Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17000787330589541085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5255565130713497508.post-1129928197149373742023-03-22T19:24:00.001+00:002023-03-22T19:24:00.170+00:00 MORANDI, MARVELLOUS MELANCHOLY<p><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;">Running until the end of May is a wonderful show of paintings, prints, watercolours and drawings by Giorgio Morandi. Treasures just five minutes’ walk from Highbury and Islington tube station.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;">Morandi (1890-1964) is best known for his mournful treatment of modest household objects, to which he returned again and again. Like a chess player he studied every configuration of bottles, jars, pots and glass. He loved his backgrounds which were so much part of a restrained palette, earth colours, greys, milky blues and whites.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAbILl_bhUKQsCMWB2PZ-LI-JUFwqaRRHVZ9QZPlN7TVtCrz1Bn6DrfGZEYuOl0aiO5OG4mW4UGFgbEU-zKauzSG8rGu52r7j7NdxK0ZYfbxzORj1bjdC62S5rhMGlyCcPAda34RgbQ99T8Yo3ciZ25WkO4vKjIDKRvc0J0lWhlyg9xUuPiyM1HANLzA/s1196/Screenshot%202023-03-22%20at%2008.26.02.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="994" data-original-width="1196" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAbILl_bhUKQsCMWB2PZ-LI-JUFwqaRRHVZ9QZPlN7TVtCrz1Bn6DrfGZEYuOl0aiO5OG4mW4UGFgbEU-zKauzSG8rGu52r7j7NdxK0ZYfbxzORj1bjdC62S5rhMGlyCcPAda34RgbQ99T8Yo3ciZ25WkO4vKjIDKRvc0J0lWhlyg9xUuPiyM1HANLzA/s320/Screenshot%202023-03-22%20at%2008.26.02.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: x-small;">NATURA MORTA Oil on canvas<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: x-small;">14⅞ by 17¾ in. (37.8 by 45.1 cm)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: x-small;">Painted in 1951.</span><span style="font-family: Avenir Book; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><br /><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;">In real life these pictures are so much lighter than the reproductions we enjoy online. And you can see how his palette becomes in and of itself lighter comparing paintings from 1927 to 1948.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;">Special for me where the watercolours and pencil drawings, the former float and are almost like abstracted apparitions. The pencil studies are akin to Morandi working things out, exploring, one of the essential qualities of drawing.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_CoMgsiCnxPcK0_w6scmqj5_2bKgrIOFs2oK95ja0SGoKR8OpEGlr328u_O06q0K07C4YpjooWGppTQqKqHY8IgmVIQ45KfkrIEsxJiMXR_ka5PeZwEA2KBYy8oAES-P4T_8_NK-Uanvf2QN5xLs6hLXJsL9pI0Rky7VrWL3F_fj7Bdxytyb6RWy65w/s1106/Screenshot%202023-03-22%20at%2008.30.17.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="854" data-original-width="1106" height="247" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_CoMgsiCnxPcK0_w6scmqj5_2bKgrIOFs2oK95ja0SGoKR8OpEGlr328u_O06q0K07C4YpjooWGppTQqKqHY8IgmVIQ45KfkrIEsxJiMXR_ka5PeZwEA2KBYy8oAES-P4T_8_NK-Uanvf2QN5xLs6hLXJsL9pI0Rky7VrWL3F_fj7Bdxytyb6RWy65w/s320/Screenshot%202023-03-22%20at%2008.30.17.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: x-small;"> <br />Morandi Drawings : Great explorations</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;">Overall, a triumph for focus and economy of means.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;">Do go. Runs until <span style="background-color: white;">28 May 2023</span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><a href="https://www.estorickcollection.com/exhibitions/giorgio-morandi-masterpieces-from-the-magnani-rocca-foundation" style="color: #954f72; font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;">https://www.estorickcollection.com/exhibitions/giorgio-morandi-masterpieces-from-the-magnani-rocca-foundation</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: x-small;"><b>Pictures</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: x-small;">Painting <a href="https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2020/impressionist-modern-art-day-sale-online/giorgio-morandi-natura-morta">https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2020/impressionist-modern-art-day-sale-online/giorgio-morandi-natura-morta</a>. </span><span style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(151, 151, 151); letter-spacing: 0.5px;">(C) 2023 Sotheby's </span>Thank you </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: x-small;">Drawing <a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/687855">https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/687855</a>. </span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 6); color: #000006;"><span style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: x-small;">© 2000–2023 The Metropolitan Museum of Art.</span></span><span style="background-color: white; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 6); color: #000006; font-family: metsans; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: small;">Thank you</span></p>Tim Baynes Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17000787330589541085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5255565130713497508.post-73921384401401616872023-02-26T19:05:00.003+00:002023-02-26T19:05:00.165+00:00DREAMT ABOUT HEDGEROWS LAST NIGHT.<p><br /></p><p><br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoXIS94EGxQsQ3QwhF8UOvc4g0l7pUTOGtze0YF3vgDMFmvoqK5wGBQ_R7pyJ6w4l26h365-Kz5_PdcHW_0gqPJktam_hfWtaUkV_P6ExKS2Vu3DpUUiT_uYeDIlfFcAgRSgDXelEW-x_ueK6g03d_0VC6l9I1kJ0t8K3Gv3ydk77fm7Cul-NBhJ-Ssg/s4032/IMG_1167.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoXIS94EGxQsQ3QwhF8UOvc4g0l7pUTOGtze0YF3vgDMFmvoqK5wGBQ_R7pyJ6w4l26h365-Kz5_PdcHW_0gqPJktam_hfWtaUkV_P6ExKS2Vu3DpUUiT_uYeDIlfFcAgRSgDXelEW-x_ueK6g03d_0VC6l9I1kJ0t8K3Gv3ydk77fm7Cul-NBhJ-Ssg/w300-h400/IMG_1167.jpeg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /><span style="font-family: Avenir;">Lanes and Stiles to explore</span></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;">We have landed in Cricklade, Wiltshire. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;">A delightful place full of equally delightful people. The place is a beguiling mix of Saxon walls, innumerable footpaths and small estates of homes. A neighbour pops round with tulips the day after we move in! </span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;">Another with a bottle of wine.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;">There are great things waiting to be discovered, within the small housing estates and the attendant buildings and gardens, tracks that run past barns, farms and desultory chicken coops.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUhwNiVt497QktQ5vpLw82JF7dGoEtWX3CqSFXTuXvsa2CT0dtJYQpfwSqEQlgrfbSdDpSOYUfo8IRz1tnP8VjzRS8M-0pws7akxc-t6mjmmcim3Bl-KkiPFxxtPA_pekErRLM-UKSiWP_V1aD3nzVd9CrwrwXC1ghBF27anigjk9Sq9AwAYF2tlI6dg/s3650/IMG_1173.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3650" data-original-width="2726" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUhwNiVt497QktQ5vpLw82JF7dGoEtWX3CqSFXTuXvsa2CT0dtJYQpfwSqEQlgrfbSdDpSOYUfo8IRz1tnP8VjzRS8M-0pws7akxc-t6mjmmcim3Bl-KkiPFxxtPA_pekErRLM-UKSiWP_V1aD3nzVd9CrwrwXC1ghBF27anigjk9Sq9AwAYF2tlI6dg/w299-h400/IMG_1173.jpeg" width="299" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;">Vortex-like plants and hedges</span></div></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><p> </p><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOwN5M3NlMCBd-M07VZj38Jw2c9eHPEWhVotpOSgBDeMYNUKpBpYc88Jk6PqQUAhlPr7tgaPppnsZz8FUx9APXko-oReXxcMjaxHgq2dAgHsbp-kSXx2whioPEi6sY59GhwgRpfGAwpSSugp8O2ZpHtQIcEKckLNbOE4StjoFZznGCv1hEEqIQlqd8_w/s4032/IMG_1195.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOwN5M3NlMCBd-M07VZj38Jw2c9eHPEWhVotpOSgBDeMYNUKpBpYc88Jk6PqQUAhlPr7tgaPppnsZz8FUx9APXko-oReXxcMjaxHgq2dAgHsbp-kSXx2whioPEi6sY59GhwgRpfGAwpSSugp8O2ZpHtQIcEKckLNbOE4StjoFZznGCv1hEEqIQlqd8_w/w400-h300/IMG_1195.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 14.666667px; text-align: justify;"><br />Sprinkled around: small estates of homes</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;">Each day I take Rosie for a walk and come back loaded with ideas and with R’s permission linger longer to make a sketch. Dreamt about hedgerows last night.</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;">St Sampson’s Church Tower, a triumph of Late Perpendicular, can be seen for miles around.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;">The lanes that are vortex-like with winter branches and beside each a stream ditch or river. </span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;">I had the studio set up two days after moving in and have even started to carve out time with charcoal and acrylic. There is much to celebrate in drawing and painting and ‘camera as sketchbook’. And approach adopted by the painter George Shaw. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Avenir Book;"><span style="font-size: 14.666667px;">SIDE BAR </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">George Shaw talks about “being a bit of a prowler” constantly touring the landscape, neglected woodlands, these wildernesses, with his camera. He admits to taking hundreds of photographs and using these and his imagination to create works that are very real very lonely and works that monumentalise every day.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Written February 2022</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">For more on Shaw</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="https://www.artnet.com/artists/george-shaw-2/" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.artnet.com/artists/george-shaw-2/</a></span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><br /></p>Tim Baynes Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17000787330589541085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5255565130713497508.post-52132071265090602422023-02-19T19:32:00.003+00:002023-02-19T19:32:47.359+00:00 TWO VICTORIAN WELSH FANCIES<p><span style="font-family: Avenir Light, sans-serif;">The Victorians were an industrious bunch when it came to church building and church make-overs. The architects of the period get mixed reviews. Arguably if they had not happened along many churches might be rubble now.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;">Two 'new build' churches close to Laugharne are delightful and well worth a visit. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;">St David, Meidrim. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;">A guardsman-like line of yews usher you forward to a church that is impossibly long. Or you can gain access to the church yard via a red brick church hall which the <i>Buildings of Wales*</i> characterised as ‘non-descript’. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;">Inside, the Chancel was the work of Ewan Christian. He is known for designing the National Portrait Gallery. A busy boy he carried out about 1,300 restorations and additions to churches throughout England and Wales.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPz-K2mUOMJum2Zff3tY6IitQMmpHw4Tjibw36CEquU_Noa-tAAyS2mt31XKzl9eqpvNCJ60rZP8Eyyd4M2I4EAFUEPYarfqtIws07rCbkpmo_c8mrj_P643OLzG8-M15sBg7eQuwPGJaS6pzDCZ8NIOe9eowWWTp3SNtl6UDbUN8CdccOE74HDhyXIg/s2023/9BEBC32F-C096-4E3B-8F7D-A7BAF1AC7E5B_1_201_a.heic" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2023" data-original-width="1567" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPz-K2mUOMJum2Zff3tY6IitQMmpHw4Tjibw36CEquU_Noa-tAAyS2mt31XKzl9eqpvNCJ60rZP8Eyyd4M2I4EAFUEPYarfqtIws07rCbkpmo_c8mrj_P643OLzG8-M15sBg7eQuwPGJaS6pzDCZ8NIOe9eowWWTp3SNtl6UDbUN8CdccOE74HDhyXIg/w310-h400/9BEBC32F-C096-4E3B-8F7D-A7BAF1AC7E5B_1_201_a.heic" width="310" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Under escort the guardsmen yews will take you to a long and lovely church </span><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>The Nave of St David was down to F R Kempson. Frederick Roberston Kempson (1838 – 1923) was a Herefordshire lad who aside from Meidrim is known Herefordshire secular building designs including Hereford Library in the Venetian Gothic style.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;">St Martin & St Enfael, Merthyr.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;">This delicacy sits in a narrow valley with a river, the Cowin, running behind the church yard. It is gained via a single track with a farm at the end, Church Farm. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVp8jbUN8Tf-QVgIcr-FmZP-ZVb3N2JbiU2SQL_ud_3OyGy5jOUb8KxLYWMXzpi_-rTiuCUEfRNQdCNbxIQ-AczEs35KnvjzTj5dwKM021L7ji5eENIaHvwcTE5VonQH811s0dJPpmrQXRhudN5H2QkghPvoV4SSCcfnxCHm7ORsgpY29iFkzzlfdBfw/s2814/IMG_1109.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2020" data-original-width="2814" height="288" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVp8jbUN8Tf-QVgIcr-FmZP-ZVb3N2JbiU2SQL_ud_3OyGy5jOUb8KxLYWMXzpi_-rTiuCUEfRNQdCNbxIQ-AczEs35KnvjzTj5dwKM021L7ji5eENIaHvwcTE5VonQH811s0dJPpmrQXRhudN5H2QkghPvoV4SSCcfnxCHm7ORsgpY29iFkzzlfdBfw/w400-h288/IMG_1109.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: x-small;"><br />Tip-toe to the door.. this is a delicate charm of a church.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;">The work of one man: R. K. Penson. He was a Welsh architect and artist. Penson was county surveyor for Cardiganshire and Carmarthenshire. Just up the road he designed Llandovery Town Hall<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;">The day I attended 9:45am Holy Communication at St Martin there were seven in the congregation and a a real welcome. We concluded the service with a hearty rendition of 51. <i>Lo, he comes with clouds descending</i>, a Wesleyan classic.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;">THANK YOU WIKIPEDIA… To whom the writer does donate.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._R._Kempson" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._R._Kempson</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: #0563c1; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span class="MsoHyperlink" style="color: #0563c1; text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewan_Christian" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ewan_Christian</span></a><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>Tim Baynes Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17000787330589541085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5255565130713497508.post-36358329833238128712023-02-06T19:00:00.001+00:002023-02-06T19:00:00.165+00:00THE NATIONAL DISH - a poster child <p><span style="font-family: Avenir;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="790" data-original-width="538" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU4F8bKtBqsA2CLgOTSnwPHFeJpUvpXL-HfrQCbQmKKtpk4W1N4aHodpdwYhLw0kbQP789O1P8ahPDg1hYaRF0_kfb4dDrwF1VWhk1asDSOF8G5rEYmUwbDqLiQjTP7SreD94bTU62Gz7WKZ5MhRJL46kvcOn5iwllkzp0JfM7eBpQC6rjsIrRSJhmZQ/w438-h640/Screenshot%202023-01-29%20at%2008.32.09.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="438" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Avenir; text-align: justify;">The oft' seen poster of sea fish species<br /><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU4F8bKtBqsA2CLgOTSnwPHFeJpUvpXL-HfrQCbQmKKtpk4W1N4aHodpdwYhLw0kbQP789O1P8ahPDg1hYaRF0_kfb4dDrwF1VWhk1asDSOF8G5rEYmUwbDqLiQjTP7SreD94bTU62Gz7WKZ5MhRJL46kvcOn5iwllkzp0JfM7eBpQC6rjsIrRSJhmZQ/s790/Screenshot%202023-01-29%20at%2008.32.09.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;"></span></a><span style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;">The other day we were on the beach below the quayside at seaside town New Quay in Cardiganshire, about 20 miles south of Aberystwyth. </span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;">It was blustery although the sun shone, and it was nearing lunchtime. </span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;">Regaining the town we entered the wonderful Captain’s Rendezvous Fish and Chip Restaurant and enjoyed a wonderful meal. The management even provide proper fish knives.</span></div></span></div><span style="font-family: Avenir;"><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;">On the wall was the oft' seen poster of sea fish species. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;">Any fish and chip emporium worth its salt (sorry) has one on display. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;">On Etsy and eBay they sell for a fortune. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;">Going to the source, the National Federation of Fish Friers, I was able to purchase one direct. </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTSG6Gs-KDyQkSKoEfuEgYJ6aB0Pcr39uHbiTOUIK6lRLxzQIa9NRfwLKxoy4cHDnEnMN-S_VTtV0VJbkWJW9ScNb1MfRaMhDAuUH52rAc0_kQaCo1wcp10DVcsmI7ywVELBbkqhuFRp5pIJfCoJjzfE6yfYGFFR10hAXD3yASU0kqu0QFscIWE1Dpeg/s225/Fish%20Fryers%20logo.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTSG6Gs-KDyQkSKoEfuEgYJ6aB0Pcr39uHbiTOUIK6lRLxzQIa9NRfwLKxoy4cHDnEnMN-S_VTtV0VJbkWJW9ScNb1MfRaMhDAuUH52rAc0_kQaCo1wcp10DVcsmI7ywVELBbkqhuFRp5pIJfCoJjzfE6yfYGFFR10hAXD3yASU0kqu0QFscIWE1Dpeg/w200-h200/Fish%20Fryers%20logo.png" width="200" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: Avenir;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;">It came with a lovely exchange of email with the lady that runs the Training and Qualifications co-ordination. </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: Avenir;">I expect it to arrive very soon and that is not too long before my next cod</span><span style="font-family: Avenir;"> </span><span style="font-family: Avenir;"> </span><span style="font-family: Avenir;">and chips.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><o:p></o:p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDNGdS0IH3Xkd-iysess6h1xzcYzSFvELwAfTY3cxybn5apJ04VW2RUT0MQV569wCjvDYE3i7l-mASm2NgCUwf2jvsKJaqPAN-WzfH6KvrptlpzFe9lqWML8wxIEGmSgnoE2x2QkAdbkMyGknCpdvlHZv73d9AJPosryzQu9aMxiEZQOPzRnlr774DkA/s3215/New%20Quay%20Cardiganshire%20West%20Wales%20.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2116" data-original-width="3215" height="422" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDNGdS0IH3Xkd-iysess6h1xzcYzSFvELwAfTY3cxybn5apJ04VW2RUT0MQV569wCjvDYE3i7l-mASm2NgCUwf2jvsKJaqPAN-WzfH6KvrptlpzFe9lqWML8wxIEGmSgnoE2x2QkAdbkMyGknCpdvlHZv73d9AJPosryzQu9aMxiEZQOPzRnlr774DkA/w640-h422/New%20Quay%20Cardiganshire%20West%20Wales%20.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;">New Quay's quay. Above and to the right is the Captain's Rendezvous<br /><br /><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;">‘Both Lancashire and London stake a claim to being the first to invent this famous meal – chips were a cheap, staple food of the industrial north whilst fried fish was introduced in London’s East End. In 1839 Charles Dickens referred to a “fried fish warehouse” in his novel, ‘Oliver Twist’. Source: <a href="https://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/Fish-Chips/" style="color: #954f72;">Historic UK </a> - the History and Heritage Accommodation Guide.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>Tim Baynes Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17000787330589541085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5255565130713497508.post-77582611212196858172023-01-21T19:18:00.000+00:002023-01-21T19:18:00.173+00:00 COMING BACK TO LIFE<p><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;">Pliny the Elder tells of</span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;">Zeuxis (Greek painter, 5BC) who was keen to paint an ideal image of the human form.</span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;">To get to his idea of an ‘ideal’ subject Zeuxis convened a sort of</span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><i style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;">Life Model X-Factor</i><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;">. Whereby he appraised the young women of Agrigentum, a city on the south coast of Sicily.</span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;">Naked they stood before Zeuxis. In the end he selected five whose features he would combine in order to paint an ideal image. This is one of the earliest mentions of life or figure drawing. By C13th the practice was established.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;">Figure drawing is arguably the most difficult subject an artist encounters. My endeavours,</span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;">I first</span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;">went to classes in 1986, in this are a testament to this. I resumed sessions, locally, last week. And feel the better for it.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;">Life drawing is very much part of the curriculum in art schools. Some staff at some schools, infatuated with present-day ‘conceptual’ art, try all sorts of gimmicks to avoid students following established approaches to life drawing; for example the person drawing</span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;">places a piece of chalk between her or his big and second toe, and then with eyes shut (no peeking) they draw the model posed in front of the class.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;">However it is an absorbing exercise, using charcoal, ink or paint one develops an eye for shape and the interplay of light. The equivalent I always thing of a pianist practising scales.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqmaB8PMvr3VcD0iQHnGLovieaBIr3N701j079hq0LkpHqqHJFvx5XI69tyjXCbSSvV-Fv70tSCE45yIoRf0cgKcI2zl4U5oBF91PcCBynFM3NhPYa7GJSOGJFn_r4Xe6F78TrFOxYzVr9c9dGM7ctfnr094t-O5a_dXmWQ60I5WHLsvjhtJPrHgUwlg/s2608/0D3E1C27-514C-4857-BF3B-8647ADFE0E9D_1_201_a.heic" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2608" data-original-width="2608" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqmaB8PMvr3VcD0iQHnGLovieaBIr3N701j079hq0LkpHqqHJFvx5XI69tyjXCbSSvV-Fv70tSCE45yIoRf0cgKcI2zl4U5oBF91PcCBynFM3NhPYa7GJSOGJFn_r4Xe6F78TrFOxYzVr9c9dGM7ctfnr094t-O5a_dXmWQ60I5WHLsvjhtJPrHgUwlg/s320/0D3E1C27-514C-4857-BF3B-8647ADFE0E9D_1_201_a.heic" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl6oLkaONcc2sDeuUIIoqSxWrcEmU-r-8UxU913cuAElPFwqPQHAs9TfD2fS_k1RWmezr9dcMS5fLdIXesVdK0tJF548Tw1Knz9ypSGinLXsB6aMCj5uN6V8zntfkaUoE904AXCjgH9Sm9n-Zp7807HrwX8pzF1fmEicdN8ylXEa5HYB4lfh-qZeOIXg/s3367/2E315ADE-E1B2-48D0-8C50-CAB433833C96_1_201_a.heic" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3367" data-original-width="2880" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhl6oLkaONcc2sDeuUIIoqSxWrcEmU-r-8UxU913cuAElPFwqPQHAs9TfD2fS_k1RWmezr9dcMS5fLdIXesVdK0tJF548Tw1Knz9ypSGinLXsB6aMCj5uN6V8zntfkaUoE904AXCjgH9Sm9n-Zp7807HrwX8pzF1fmEicdN8ylXEa5HYB4lfh-qZeOIXg/w343-h400/2E315ADE-E1B2-48D0-8C50-CAB433833C96_1_201_a.heic" width="343" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6-RLGpnLn14kGhcjIhHDzaoUGxO-kwSLEu74Kk7cs0zLZ1VNqLxqSurV4HfW6VE7Ectg35FBVRX1XLBW-sZQ93kuVj73BRocVLGVeDTxHwGcmA923-zXMjuT0oEz_SXkaLFVfZGhjqbxvNWqXNmUpbVrRPVJWXR0S3ptk8bRx9btxb7CtuAitC-UxbA/s1985/C72FC2BF-91E1-437A-99A4-139F7BD24014_1_201_a.heic" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1985" data-original-width="1515" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6-RLGpnLn14kGhcjIhHDzaoUGxO-kwSLEu74Kk7cs0zLZ1VNqLxqSurV4HfW6VE7Ectg35FBVRX1XLBW-sZQ93kuVj73BRocVLGVeDTxHwGcmA923-zXMjuT0oEz_SXkaLFVfZGhjqbxvNWqXNmUpbVrRPVJWXR0S3ptk8bRx9btxb7CtuAitC-UxbA/w488-h640/C72FC2BF-91E1-437A-99A4-139F7BD24014_1_201_a.heic" width="488" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRhyxOqEBtGUhQVhxRoMJFbJtF14ubcLM8O4vnUEXc4yZ5zaZD6-hd2iMzFy1X7r0Rp8Ge41dfO7n4wzFL9oxFdoaPWLA77b5U8v0vvTT3pL8XoGqsv5k9Q9EkRPdqMBW_QnitVd5kdYCaMdRzIDJ8o64QpyPj5YjU9KWvNAZbM6OCK5ykx_9ID7QQEQ/s2901/D863521A-8CE9-4AEB-8522-692CD7F8328A_1_201_a.heic" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2901" data-original-width="2164" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRhyxOqEBtGUhQVhxRoMJFbJtF14ubcLM8O4vnUEXc4yZ5zaZD6-hd2iMzFy1X7r0Rp8Ge41dfO7n4wzFL9oxFdoaPWLA77b5U8v0vvTT3pL8XoGqsv5k9Q9EkRPdqMBW_QnitVd5kdYCaMdRzIDJ8o64QpyPj5YjU9KWvNAZbM6OCK5ykx_9ID7QQEQ/w478-h640/D863521A-8CE9-4AEB-8522-692CD7F8328A_1_201_a.heic" width="478" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span><p></p>Tim Baynes Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17000787330589541085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5255565130713497508.post-73371356475988863152023-01-12T19:02:00.004+00:002023-01-12T19:02:36.780+00:00JOY<p><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;">January is the month where joy, delight and happiness is thin on the ground. Here are recent incidents creating reasons to be cheerful.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM_yNlitLnsnMf8dUBFpLTaQjlKcjSMpaAnTOxbwL4DCaWOKE6kWvAfdOQxbzsC2nbgW25gNmNattn5lXrmYB_F0YRs5DgNs899diNkRGSfan0igVgsdFlyKsqxS6nuT4771Z7fYO56Xq7y2ke7eRKL7yX5AH3HHzsRt5t73uanIDt87IE_9JmM-sPgw/s2194/57BA3960-67EB-47D5-917A-1CF52087FF51_1_201_a.heic" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1485" data-original-width="2194" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM_yNlitLnsnMf8dUBFpLTaQjlKcjSMpaAnTOxbwL4DCaWOKE6kWvAfdOQxbzsC2nbgW25gNmNattn5lXrmYB_F0YRs5DgNs899diNkRGSfan0igVgsdFlyKsqxS6nuT4771Z7fYO56Xq7y2ke7eRKL7yX5AH3HHzsRt5t73uanIDt87IE_9JmM-sPgw/s320/57BA3960-67EB-47D5-917A-1CF52087FF51_1_201_a.heic" width="320" /></a> </div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;">Over the New Year’s we were fortunate to stay with dear friends Mike and Kate. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;">Catching up, comparing notes, sharing news and our hopes and uncertainties for the year ahead Mike said:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;">“Well we are people who can get joy from any life”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;">I rushed back to our room and wrote his thought down in my book. I have been reflecting about this idea ever since.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;">Harry Baker, an author and poet has been talking to us this week on <i>Prayer for the Day,</i> BBC Radio 4’s daily prayer and reflection. Each 2 minute programme brings huge happiness at the start of the day. He signed off his January 9 broadcast with <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;">“Creator god, thank you for adventure. Thank you that this world is so full of wonder that a lifetime spent exploring it wouldn’t even begin to scratch the surface”.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">>> Link to that broadcast <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001gwx2" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001gwx2</a></span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;">I discovered joy in another quarter this week – Photographer Alan Burles in his Guardian article <i>A lighter side of life – picture essay</i> published on Monday 26 December.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;">“The first time I saw a photograph by Elliott Erwitt I fell madly in love with him. “I wasn’t only drawn to Erwitt, I quickly discovered many other amazing reportage photographers too and I now realise that one of the things that I was drawn to was that their work didn’t condemn the world, it celebrated it. </span><span style="caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34);">“</span><o:p></o:p></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";">Link to that article >></span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"> </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/dec/26/a-lighter-side-of-life-picture-essay" style="color: #954f72; font-family: "Avenir Book";">https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/dec/26/a-lighter-side-of-life-picture-essay</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;">I wrote to Alan saying how much I enjoyed his article and the accompanying photographs.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;">He replied saying <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;">“I see you are an artist I can see that your art also celebrates the world” <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;">The copyrights of The Guardian newspaper, BBC and photographer Alan Burles are acknowledged and also that of dear friend Mike Colling.</span><span style="font-family: Avenir Book; font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>Tim Baynes Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17000787330589541085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5255565130713497508.post-26350500863730609402023-01-02T19:30:00.002+00:002023-01-02T19:30:00.179+00:00SNOW GOOSE<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;">At the end of a nine mile track off the A9 (Perth - Inverness road) is Bruar Lodge on the Atholl estate. Surrounded by high hills and bracing stretches of moorland this landscape that changes with the light, time of day and the weather. Si</span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;">â</span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;">n and I were the guests of dear friends Kate and Mike. Arriving in good time on the 29<sup>th</sup> we had temerity to bring our car along the track. Mistake.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiOzPTn6RR8GZjS1cE_hVNUD3DVUThWHpcnP239jK-uRgJ1EYmssCaNQwwQSsIW1pT26Yn0MVWNfabUnUxYzjNqKWyCa9fCXoc21iNIzqoYnFZYt4F55Ma6FbYBCWjJHBUNTr7fkHv0homsmLD3PzwjWRgiU2b0d5Zrmzbd49dCZxp2CLzstCMEg5pIg/s4032/IMG_0716.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiOzPTn6RR8GZjS1cE_hVNUD3DVUThWHpcnP239jK-uRgJ1EYmssCaNQwwQSsIW1pT26Yn0MVWNfabUnUxYzjNqKWyCa9fCXoc21iNIzqoYnFZYt4F55Ma6FbYBCWjJHBUNTr7fkHv0homsmLD3PzwjWRgiU2b0d5Zrmzbd49dCZxp2CLzstCMEg5pIg/w400-h300/IMG_0716.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;">As I write, some five days later we are stranded here, swaddled in high luxury and wonderful company. It is toasty warm inside the lodge, and you step outside into a country that just has to be captured on paper, even when 5 – 8 degrees below.</span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;">The energy, shape, sweep and patterns of the country is captivating and so is the compulsion to draw is easy to gratify. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;">My field kit is simple: coat, scarf, cap, boots, over trousers:<span> </span> ...Plus stick sketch book and graphite stick and pen and I am off. Across the snow. Almost everywhere the sound of running water from the river or streams that pop up from nowhere. Little wind and with the sun sometimes it is quite warm.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsCn2BDu_DR8Ppym7NjTAhunTn2-hA_dya1Sro3KKp3uMG289_O09GFyxINQxayLen9zNvVIt4j3LSarDhMrtj2lVjy3yu6a8sNJGcs8U5xLFWZyOYEuQJmidhvTSMSLRohA2yxJSENgqS0tdZY4ykUVMvBzPcW9gFxZzfsZYPb_gSERq1Bidn2nwNQg/s3580/IMG_0682.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2453" data-original-width="3580" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsCn2BDu_DR8Ppym7NjTAhunTn2-hA_dya1Sro3KKp3uMG289_O09GFyxINQxayLen9zNvVIt4j3LSarDhMrtj2lVjy3yu6a8sNJGcs8U5xLFWZyOYEuQJmidhvTSMSLRohA2yxJSENgqS0tdZY4ykUVMvBzPcW9gFxZzfsZYPb_gSERq1Bidn2nwNQg/w400-h274/IMG_0682.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheJCvuWGXlfaJhCX0Mwca4TGN5hvendyHp62qB1yfHJdhumHK9nQsZXkwe48pR0VkMygnqtozW4yhZ57XDW9p-lWcYfgz61lJPDY35gCvzsOM5-Q-5hdzl5q98y1qf9w7nPVOvDtI90ogVxi1L2_nkVIX40n2wvbLLYykArHfdMPId8KmY_SecTIGMaQ/s2996/IMG_0683.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1970" data-original-width="2996" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheJCvuWGXlfaJhCX0Mwca4TGN5hvendyHp62qB1yfHJdhumHK9nQsZXkwe48pR0VkMygnqtozW4yhZ57XDW9p-lWcYfgz61lJPDY35gCvzsOM5-Q-5hdzl5q98y1qf9w7nPVOvDtI90ogVxi1L2_nkVIX40n2wvbLLYykArHfdMPId8KmY_SecTIGMaQ/w400-h263/IMG_0683.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtPNCGbhvGx37t09fWn0Cv79JtBR3FH7hx8IvdVqktAwaf6uqNZcwx-loMB3L34J3tzbhJ0HEHD03-GfaH_K_jCf3niVC9sYaJPKC04go3PAuFXQeSujfSfSiBAJf_BKuiGJEnVEw730MNoWhHJES-dUXU7PJUdI1axN_2AkD84iWA-gySqEv8BeHdpw/s3231/IMG_0684.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2157" data-original-width="3231" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtPNCGbhvGx37t09fWn0Cv79JtBR3FH7hx8IvdVqktAwaf6uqNZcwx-loMB3L34J3tzbhJ0HEHD03-GfaH_K_jCf3niVC9sYaJPKC04go3PAuFXQeSujfSfSiBAJf_BKuiGJEnVEw730MNoWhHJES-dUXU7PJUdI1axN_2AkD84iWA-gySqEv8BeHdpw/w400-h268/IMG_0684.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;">Certainly being outside here is the best place to make drawings and the ambient temperature ensure every mark is quickly pressed into submission. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;">What brilliant fun.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><br /><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;">When will we be out of the Glen? </span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;">Who knows.</span> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgVHe3BHCMsZuoP34p7PerJmfIQzPfoUic7xHDgP9lOO5G8B3e80NlaD8Ei7Hl7tSjNBz-bbzcG5nWTd7St6EaV-VbDrFLT5J3-Fh7BXEonUk3L_YeVqY2rgAI2CDHCsu4Ecoiq_lGEFI-_brOUs72peT2pxMljaUMyF8OYgelYZzHutJ6RFy4E5jKEw/s828/IMG_0689.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="809" data-original-width="828" height="313" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgVHe3BHCMsZuoP34p7PerJmfIQzPfoUic7xHDgP9lOO5G8B3e80NlaD8Ei7Hl7tSjNBz-bbzcG5nWTd7St6EaV-VbDrFLT5J3-Fh7BXEonUk3L_YeVqY2rgAI2CDHCsu4Ecoiq_lGEFI-_brOUs72peT2pxMljaUMyF8OYgelYZzHutJ6RFy4E5jKEw/s320/IMG_0689.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>Tim Baynes Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17000787330589541085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5255565130713497508.post-78521375477560513262022-12-27T19:22:00.001+00:002022-12-27T19:22:00.168+00:00BARNS, FARMS AND CRUMBLING COTTAGES <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 21.466665267944336px;">I stop by them in the car</span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333332061767578px;">, photograph and draw them. Later paint them.</span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333332061767578px;">Drawn to them with <i>“the sort of compulsion that derives from their physicality rather than any associations”</i><sup>1</sup>. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333332061767578px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 24.533334732055664px;">Their meanness</span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333332061767578px;"> and implied indigence is prominent. Many are heartening neglected, ugly.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333332061767578px;">These are small scale scrawled marks on the landscape. Satisfying and enduring, preserved for function or former utility.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333332061767578px;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0cm;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzp7s8fpaJARB_MLgf4Hl0RDS1ms-cnXWaxAn8V9QpDyz9JKfiHxpKNNy3COWIMnlp9PBcH7s8cj9uE7YN_lSdPJl8HdrgocJbyj30RrVPSTyaTHO8RwCuAl6LntI6edar8HseQO96KWzgkgSCQ5qZIrKJwm0uYKaBJoqEiTDaFFXbfKzzFu6TZgbeCQ/s2967/5FBBF3F9-7752-440C-9BF8-3F142B3A4B64_1_201_a.heic" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2405" data-original-width="2967" height="324" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzp7s8fpaJARB_MLgf4Hl0RDS1ms-cnXWaxAn8V9QpDyz9JKfiHxpKNNy3COWIMnlp9PBcH7s8cj9uE7YN_lSdPJl8HdrgocJbyj30RrVPSTyaTHO8RwCuAl6LntI6edar8HseQO96KWzgkgSCQ5qZIrKJwm0uYKaBJoqEiTDaFFXbfKzzFu6TZgbeCQ/w400-h324/5FBBF3F9-7752-440C-9BF8-3F142B3A4B64_1_201_a.heic" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: x-small;"><br />Another drive by painting: Llanygnog</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333332061767578px;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333332061767578px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 24.533334732055664px;">Their composition is stone,</span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333332061767578px;"> breeze block, rusting corrugated tin.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333332061767578px;">Some have modern olive green steel roofs, a concession to trying to blend in. Windows without glass slowly shedding their paint. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333332061767578px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 24.533334732055664px;">Close by an obligatory shipping container</span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333332061767578px;"> is pressed into service for who knows what.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333332061767578px;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0cm;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqgGYStBy8VXGIxX0b0o1gM91HNo-OrOyFMG_ChlJ8U690jIJnUv_ofPxOpQ2I4A3EbdaE4nLYopwGXIJONr5mjNx6nwmlk-fV4btSimgUpXc63-Llr_OdHCPnr5ERox8M_0C0t0KjycE1z3VqeHUwjYdk0KTFRlSBI6c_jcwjvneQ46RATsWh3MxnxA/s2805/8B4C2B28-F8CD-48E5-BA32-5735463C5C03.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: x-small;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1772" data-original-width="2805" height="253" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqgGYStBy8VXGIxX0b0o1gM91HNo-OrOyFMG_ChlJ8U690jIJnUv_ofPxOpQ2I4A3EbdaE4nLYopwGXIJONr5mjNx6nwmlk-fV4btSimgUpXc63-Llr_OdHCPnr5ERox8M_0C0t0KjycE1z3VqeHUwjYdk0KTFRlSBI6c_jcwjvneQ46RATsWh3MxnxA/w400-h253/8B4C2B28-F8CD-48E5-BA32-5735463C5C03.jpeg" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: x-small;"><br />On the road to St Clears: Sheds nestle next to a caravan</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333332061767578px;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333332061767578px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 24.533334732055664px;">Dereliction in these parts</span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333332061767578px;"> means two of most things, at least: cars up on bricks, corrugated sheets, plastic buckets, wire, fencing posts, tyres (lots of). Close by half a car, three-quarters of a car, a shed a hutch, more posts. All subdued by grass, ivy, creepers and old man's beard. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333332061767578px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333332061767578px;">Oil drums (colours various) and the nearby gate is secured by blue bailer twine, acting as both hinge and latch.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333332061767578px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 24.533334732055664px;">Colour has a vital part to play</span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333332061767578px;"> in this agricultural tableaux. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333332061767578px;">Every shade of grey you could mix, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333332061767578px;">for the stone, concrete and skies overhead. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333332061767578px;">Add Burnt Sienna for the rust, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333332061767578px;">Turquoise or electric blue in the plastic detritus that on the ground in front. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333332061767578px;">Lemon Yellow (hose pipes) <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333332061767578px;">Cadmium Orange (baler twine).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333332061767578px;">Lichen: shades from dark Hookers Green to the palest blue or a watery mustard yellow.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333332061767578px;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0cm;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirxdstp8Jd8hlEvlHeENRKHJ9IbzXEzQ0cX1kuK4IagmBm_z4Uj8xzWzvZOlB-uodi5WEvFgh59qcdMPak4-RhMupuVPbP3KxFr8dYt9iuzYLC-RFi7tTFWit624i8Eiv9RFclMf503qyi8Kl4dsvcxj2PAGYo1Rqxd9A4JnzygQ8Uv-ryo3a3XRnpRA/s2777/D169B56B-827C-4A01-9DD4-0294F24E552A_1_201_a.heic" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2012" data-original-width="2777" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirxdstp8Jd8hlEvlHeENRKHJ9IbzXEzQ0cX1kuK4IagmBm_z4Uj8xzWzvZOlB-uodi5WEvFgh59qcdMPak4-RhMupuVPbP3KxFr8dYt9iuzYLC-RFi7tTFWit624i8Eiv9RFclMf503qyi8Kl4dsvcxj2PAGYo1Rqxd9A4JnzygQ8Uv-ryo3a3XRnpRA/w400-h290/D169B56B-827C-4A01-9DD4-0294F24E552A_1_201_a.heic" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: x-small;"> <br />Late December Afternoon - Brook Farm nr. Pendine</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333332061767578px;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333332061767578px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 24.533334732055664px;">Trashtische?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333332061767578px;">These buildings and their grounds are visually pungent. More satisfying than the mollycoddled rural museum heritage-experience with entry fees and overgrown with signage.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333332061767578px;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0cm;"><sup><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.800000190734863px;">1 </span></sup><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 13.800000190734863px;">Jonathan Meades from <i>Pedro and Ricky Come Again</i> Unbound Books 2021<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 15.333332061767578px;">.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwxHAtzsvt9T2NWBkBY3KVgtnkbvGTukQIgR33X9xG5zsDteO7NMmPfzIv471LN1j_493pCePKI_SpBr_1RID6tMkYqnR9rxyuFJ7yiS0_ugbNYvlfdUAtzweo-qNzULX2rCZ_pTjmqhOItmtCVcPmUD_qbSuOpQ3LrFxlewSYIfYu18dFAQIiR232qQ/s3024/D686D594-2D54-4514-B92E-0C2CD23C872E_1_201_a.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwxHAtzsvt9T2NWBkBY3KVgtnkbvGTukQIgR33X9xG5zsDteO7NMmPfzIv471LN1j_493pCePKI_SpBr_1RID6tMkYqnR9rxyuFJ7yiS0_ugbNYvlfdUAtzweo-qNzULX2rCZ_pTjmqhOItmtCVcPmUD_qbSuOpQ3LrFxlewSYIfYu18dFAQIiR232qQ/w400-h400/D686D594-2D54-4514-B92E-0C2CD23C872E_1_201_a.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Isolated glory: A barn near St Davids, Pembrokeshire</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span></p>Tim Baynes Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17000787330589541085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5255565130713497508.post-2526086469342544912022-12-18T19:42:00.001+00:002022-12-18T19:42:00.169+00:00CARMARTHEN’S DISNEY LAND? <p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">FLASHBACK - earlier this year.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Whilst at college each day I passed a small portion of Saint David’s Park on the outskirts of Carmarthen. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmMfGwfNW-vnYPZRfah9jteij_xVxE2ARqFeyzCsQktOmF0Y2wdtuNbrqcHGvhuv4XeOcyWKb3uv353yxqxU8E-8ISHN1IIH1YGKeHqcaVqRzcpFfhaS2csNBYcIDwety73y61QfkXvwqzQRS7PXYxN0PR6Sargr_ypBaPrjKeFmJJi5BdTZuyEbag-Q/s3552/St%20Davids%20Park%20II%20copy.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1914" data-original-width="3552" height="172" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmMfGwfNW-vnYPZRfah9jteij_xVxE2ARqFeyzCsQktOmF0Y2wdtuNbrqcHGvhuv4XeOcyWKb3uv353yxqxU8E-8ISHN1IIH1YGKeHqcaVqRzcpFfhaS2csNBYcIDwety73y61QfkXvwqzQRS7PXYxN0PR6Sargr_ypBaPrjKeFmJJi5BdTZuyEbag-Q/s320/St%20Davids%20Park%20II%20copy.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; text-align: left;">It always intrigued me and the other day I made a visit and took some photographs. Laying all these photographs into end and they were not many, it was easy to compose paintings. </span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha8nQ45g-Y9v6FLQWNkBTV0Myp8Xc1n41nK1qYc9BBds_s0BIrx3er-Kg3xWqCzLE0ubwAroKe0ccz9a-lTtwpzqkV3X8bT3y0ulvKveCvtHlBKihuSR9XQhhFKsiX-a3HhSRSUbl5SJN7EmduftChQ2xX-KGCSJx7Xl110G_vtdMLA5mlFZ50h55Ygg/s2972/St%20Davids%20Park%20II.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1950" data-original-width="2972" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEha8nQ45g-Y9v6FLQWNkBTV0Myp8Xc1n41nK1qYc9BBds_s0BIrx3er-Kg3xWqCzLE0ubwAroKe0ccz9a-lTtwpzqkV3X8bT3y0ulvKveCvtHlBKihuSR9XQhhFKsiX-a3HhSRSUbl5SJN7EmduftChQ2xX-KGCSJx7Xl110G_vtdMLA5mlFZ50h55Ygg/s320/St%20Davids%20Park%20II.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTzNrLnntiKhddeSLG2G_8KiRarf-jjYHkhBc7kSlWQKCdDs1OyGpyYtF7ueW2-t4uTGMo59kr38bZB-7SFoe6a8IewN4nGzfLk7czFHCGGAfHlzJKgLcU6NhAqs8FGTIsarWN7y1iHW-CddT5eRepNPYBCFr8G21lFVdbKTD0xT0HFXwVBGYGQ8C7nw/s2768/The%20Magic%20Kingdom%20of%20St%20Davids%20Park.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2465" data-original-width="2768" height="285" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTzNrLnntiKhddeSLG2G_8KiRarf-jjYHkhBc7kSlWQKCdDs1OyGpyYtF7ueW2-t4uTGMo59kr38bZB-7SFoe6a8IewN4nGzfLk7czFHCGGAfHlzJKgLcU6NhAqs8FGTIsarWN7y1iHW-CddT5eRepNPYBCFr8G21lFVdbKTD0xT0HFXwVBGYGQ8C7nw/s320/The%20Magic%20Kingdom%20of%20St%20Davids%20Park.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Seeing a photograph of the entrance of Disney's ‘Magic Kingdom’ in Florida it was easy to translate the high camp Gothic of Disneyland into the Gothic of Saint David’s. And the colourways were perfect. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><br /><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlV8FrA9GEv7yU9ZFNzGgqOX2USp3vGynPA7ZLdV9CYgL_E4IPVfFseoB_lVeszuWEGmrABXGbZGAntVtux4hy4x4q5GbxfpRXAUprM2WE1LSh7bv0RwwRCKQoSqygHuSiBJiNb9n2MF4RBl3c5QHm_P5mKG0AAOpzkGyf337lSviL3P6y-PCO_UBBYg/s4032/IMG_4165.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlV8FrA9GEv7yU9ZFNzGgqOX2USp3vGynPA7ZLdV9CYgL_E4IPVfFseoB_lVeszuWEGmrABXGbZGAntVtux4hy4x4q5GbxfpRXAUprM2WE1LSh7bv0RwwRCKQoSqygHuSiBJiNb9n2MF4RBl3c5QHm_P5mKG0AAOpzkGyf337lSviL3P6y-PCO_UBBYg/s320/IMG_4165.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Studying the architecture: It all late Victorian Gothic including, round the corner from here a remarkable chapel Grade II listed. It was built by the inmates for St David’s was the county asylum. 1865 – 2003 <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjW4elwLeqh38ZmBUIhMWHsV0SoGBIcVLwFODgLdL_lXf0gglS1iwGS3eP6DdFaQ_1vAVqoehxxZAbxpCvHCscDt1sge8MHN0fcS7cOb7PD_xMkrlgqzXPrUu0xJwzFVFYFamyPS4e0okIgBpNWzAVEDpfB9sz8krVycPEU3KFqvgZ0RP_SdqQ4-AKzA/s4032/IMG_4168.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjW4elwLeqh38ZmBUIhMWHsV0SoGBIcVLwFODgLdL_lXf0gglS1iwGS3eP6DdFaQ_1vAVqoehxxZAbxpCvHCscDt1sge8MHN0fcS7cOb7PD_xMkrlgqzXPrUu0xJwzFVFYFamyPS4e0okIgBpNWzAVEDpfB9sz8krVycPEU3KFqvgZ0RP_SdqQ4-AKzA/s320/IMG_4168.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">St David’s now has a much neglected and is falling apart kind of place Disneyland on the other hand is over the top Gothic everything pink, gold, and blue, and is the place to have fun. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV9Su3s1lSOTz1OV-Hyz5UhjjRK9KSNrm94X9TJ-HTqaoEYmld6MjAPmvpYNKIkdNQDOfD6PQFMsNy_sCNmfREeUaXDp5Vq8sPK_RaqgTguQCz0Q_RKM7zJ4qfKRUKzBfJ9_EA41mtcwCAiaMpRDTQq1hVYGI61mkWsuHHwHRNByRKzPGzEEXajZ02LQ/s2100/St%20Davids%20Park%20%20copy.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1214" data-original-width="2100" height="185" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV9Su3s1lSOTz1OV-Hyz5UhjjRK9KSNrm94X9TJ-HTqaoEYmld6MjAPmvpYNKIkdNQDOfD6PQFMsNy_sCNmfREeUaXDp5Vq8sPK_RaqgTguQCz0Q_RKM7zJ4qfKRUKzBfJ9_EA41mtcwCAiaMpRDTQq1hVYGI61mkWsuHHwHRNByRKzPGzEEXajZ02LQ/s320/St%20Davids%20Park%20%20copy.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /><span style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: x-small;">Circa 1950s</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">I found a photograph of what St David’s used to look like when it was a mental hospital. Then I got to thinking about the Gothic and the idea of Disneyland popped into my head. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: start;"><span style="color: #4c4c4e; font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;">St David's Hospital was a vast. A Victorian asylum set on a hilltop west of Carmarthen, overlooking the town and enjoying wide views over the Tywi Valley. </span><span style="font-family: -webkit-standard;"></span></p></div><br />Tim Baynes Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17000787330589541085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5255565130713497508.post-88131402468104549172022-11-28T19:31:00.001+00:002022-11-28T19:31:00.165+00:00 RAOUL ET RAPHEAEL = ETERNAL<p><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;">November, warmth, sun and crowds. Everyone enjoying themselves. The selfie-nistas are out in force. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;">This is Rome.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;">We are here, M-F, quite wonderful, scrub that. It is wonderful.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;"> Rediscovering the familiars (Pantheon) discovering the new (Trajan Markets Museum) and coping with frustration – the places we most want to see are closed – what they don’t tell you on their websites don’t tell you.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;">Rome: carbonara central.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;">Hotel is two minutes from the Trevi Fountain and five minutes’ walk (in different directions) from two very important things.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;">#1 A remarkable collection of Renaissance paintings - Palazzo Barberini houses the <i>Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica</i>, one of the most important painting collections in Italy. We had a wonderful last morning floating round the rooms housing this collection. Sun streaming in through the windows.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;"># 2 A wonderful exhibition of the French painter Raoul Dufy at the Palazzo Cipolla. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;">The Dufy was a very extensive show including his fashion designs, fabrics, tapestry and ceramic work. Everything was touched with light, colour, and complete exuberance. The show was entitled "<i>The painter of joy</i>" and indeed his work was a delight. I bounced out of that lovely colour rush the perfect antidote to a drab early UK winter. Note to self: do some investigations into this exciting painter who was influenced by Matisse. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixAgmYgCIwv7ChRJO7K_AchbEVmSy-5Jd8oavccxdC-M6qMhmqhlXgvdYIN2LTiDlL63JYaxexPTbt57gPinHx1yGKw1Q7vO2SlfBSyGD-OHbamRMVRjzCCtCcvk9d95UXGQ_7_D3MOBCEqDbPGyc6rAp4Q40_r8gS3GaTFve8nYlXv8oY8b_BH8-JFg/s3000/IMG_0288.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2633" data-original-width="3000" height="281" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixAgmYgCIwv7ChRJO7K_AchbEVmSy-5Jd8oavccxdC-M6qMhmqhlXgvdYIN2LTiDlL63JYaxexPTbt57gPinHx1yGKw1Q7vO2SlfBSyGD-OHbamRMVRjzCCtCcvk9d95UXGQ_7_D3MOBCEqDbPGyc6rAp4Q40_r8gS3GaTFve8nYlXv8oY8b_BH8-JFg/s320/IMG_0288.jpeg" width="320" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;">Mediterrranean Delights </span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqu8MpNse2fmPvnfkbluceoSj2TDPx5Q8DMbHhFQzcANg1ZNrHTvWw7n3TvCQW7HeyR-FUifeRY7qVt06G51wwBDtS9nVyn-xjsXJ3HFtAXsWHc8ev7h618JEUzUaB9YxE3hJFxfM5SIiQry0LVJ3wJorVSslw3t50ZtzzgXmENWAppnkBoXjkbQ34hQ/s4032/IMG_0289.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqu8MpNse2fmPvnfkbluceoSj2TDPx5Q8DMbHhFQzcANg1ZNrHTvWw7n3TvCQW7HeyR-FUifeRY7qVt06G51wwBDtS9nVyn-xjsXJ3HFtAXsWHc8ev7h618JEUzUaB9YxE3hJFxfM5SIiQry0LVJ3wJorVSslw3t50ZtzzgXmENWAppnkBoXjkbQ34hQ/s320/IMG_0289.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /><span style="font-family: Avenir;">Mattise Influences </span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCPbyGQFcQAxgqIVqoOfa5uajKOjCyE_5iZgEmNn06bR1y5rqh3PFmhJWrpDJzUB_jYCbpr3wu2htfMWKBCpPzjek__5IbC5iZDQwWAmj1CfrqxD3-tm_H2PC-19AUMe4dvdGLYL7MJkfle5eKY17FijkGb1PXGYO1vaQp-gyZyBGG0LyzROugO0zrPg/s2865/IMG_0293.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2244" data-original-width="2865" height="251" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCPbyGQFcQAxgqIVqoOfa5uajKOjCyE_5iZgEmNn06bR1y5rqh3PFmhJWrpDJzUB_jYCbpr3wu2htfMWKBCpPzjek__5IbC5iZDQwWAmj1CfrqxD3-tm_H2PC-19AUMe4dvdGLYL7MJkfle5eKY17FijkGb1PXGYO1vaQp-gyZyBGG0LyzROugO0zrPg/s320/IMG_0293.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /><span style="font-family: Avenir;">The painter of joy<br /><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;">Palazzo Barberini. Well, just getting so close to some fabulous Renaissance art. (Train strikes prevent me going to London to go to the National Gallery.) As soon as I got home I got out a book on Renaissance art in Italy from the public library and will work my way through this. Also I discovered or rather Sian discovered that there is a whole host of National Gallery lunchtime lectures on YouTube. And I have been watching these - absolutely thrilling - . So there's another source of art education if you want it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiMwqXnX0Ct1QLLERVVc9XSMGcGYRLuOwBqVcVXTLijMcwuPfYeKMDMuEOhBCE6WIYy8hkispGswFKd7wXprGvR5AhIBZ7n57QPf41P7UWV115WTnA_S_wuesR4vxVn8Iay_E-KwDlew0RPn_wz57KwHrh9-A9urq3hqRCqJmp64UCIlG2f4mdZyOy5Q/s1977/IMG_0308.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1977" data-original-width="1842" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiMwqXnX0Ct1QLLERVVc9XSMGcGYRLuOwBqVcVXTLijMcwuPfYeKMDMuEOhBCE6WIYy8hkispGswFKd7wXprGvR5AhIBZ7n57QPf41P7UWV115WTnA_S_wuesR4vxVn8Iay_E-KwDlew0RPn_wz57KwHrh9-A9urq3hqRCqJmp64UCIlG2f4mdZyOy5Q/s320/IMG_0308.jpeg" width="298" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif; text-align: left;"><br />Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9G3kRrO-L5jIKGiifppcnW3CPrqqZMiAjKfjX_8FCk2YEnw4mr-JYisJ8LsKvIqkspQvenRTb4Pn8S04yL3jIwILrBT3dyiqLajK7DvWZZ-PAqQM91Jqo_b-9dMqFiH4gdfBCZn1VKNPJ3Jx53slSUHo1kEOUfr3PEgFqH6gWMDZ5MOONv2mJJc9jjQ/s4032/IMG_0309.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9G3kRrO-L5jIKGiifppcnW3CPrqqZMiAjKfjX_8FCk2YEnw4mr-JYisJ8LsKvIqkspQvenRTb4Pn8S04yL3jIwILrBT3dyiqLajK7DvWZZ-PAqQM91Jqo_b-9dMqFiH4gdfBCZn1VKNPJ3Jx53slSUHo1kEOUfr3PEgFqH6gWMDZ5MOONv2mJJc9jjQ/s320/IMG_0309.jpeg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;"><br />A decorated panel in the private chapel</span> </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ-nTPH9NI4JJR3xHuMdLrkdQ4QpejBjVZij9U_6j5G7xuF5ir8O_vmBSWcZcrPiwn77ZWFrsu31XSxUgsOxurDKZOZlI7p390afbFXm_6yUYJZHBvjmOTmfhGYSNzbx92MVhBFAVfDjH977FXnag9xAcfmDgnIpqmt-8RYktO4XAxujgREmqUbrMgag/s640/IMG_7328.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ-nTPH9NI4JJR3xHuMdLrkdQ4QpejBjVZij9U_6j5G7xuF5ir8O_vmBSWcZcrPiwn77ZWFrsu31XSxUgsOxurDKZOZlI7p390afbFXm_6yUYJZHBvjmOTmfhGYSNzbx92MVhBFAVfDjH977FXnag9xAcfmDgnIpqmt-8RYktO4XAxujgREmqUbrMgag/s320/IMG_7328.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;"><br />Sian discovered this wonderful ceiling in the Palazzo</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;">Both experiences are so different from the self-obsessed, joyless contemporary art are served up by many of today’s galleries. As I write Max Hetzler has emailed me about a show of torn posters in Paris by the French artist Raymond Hains. </span><span style="color: #954f72; font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.maxhetzler.com/exhibitions/raymond-hains-affiches-lacerees-torn-posters-2022" style="color: #954f72;">https://www.maxhetzler.com/exhibitions/raymond-hains-affiches-lacerees-torn-posters-2022</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;">Affiches Lacérées / Torn Posters<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;">Paris: 46 & 57, rue du Temple, 75004, 26 November 2022 – 5 January 2023<o:p></o:p></span></p>Tim Baynes Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17000787330589541085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5255565130713497508.post-22342025614575564422022-11-11T19:05:00.002+00:002022-11-11T19:05:00.175+00:00 ST CLEARS: River, railway and road.<p><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";">St Clears, pop. 2,995 (2011 census, squats either side of the A40 as it wizzes westwards to Fishguard. North of this busy road is upper St Clears with its Cats Trust Charity Shop and Kebab and Piazza shop.</span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";">Lower St Clears, on the other side of the A40 boasts the Priory Church of St Mary Magdalene c.1100 boasting </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: "Avenir Book";">the best surviving<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";">Norman<span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">stone carving in Carmarthenshire. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6s56ZjJo53faWKUAtjpjnhSsu714v3PM3g0F3EJY0HjPAffZIx3ph2WReucowMwfs0bbZuccEcfhj08nJTzp564dUijDZtUPJ6BFMPg28tNs_E7Kc8NRfCjm4x_Nn65YqCWT_WAamNTGgHAPP0sLPByMh8_6TpCtg_fD97henaZxfd6YpnEU_Fm4LVA/s4896/St%20Clears%209:22%20P1010358.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4896" data-original-width="3672" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6s56ZjJo53faWKUAtjpjnhSsu714v3PM3g0F3EJY0HjPAffZIx3ph2WReucowMwfs0bbZuccEcfhj08nJTzp564dUijDZtUPJ6BFMPg28tNs_E7Kc8NRfCjm4x_Nn65YqCWT_WAamNTGgHAPP0sLPByMh8_6TpCtg_fD97henaZxfd6YpnEU_Fm4LVA/s320/St%20Clears%209:22%20P1010358.JPG" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: x-small;"><br />Priory Church of St Mary Magdalene </span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: "Avenir Book";">The A40 was built by the Romans. Later, as Norman forces made their way west they stopped and built a motte and bailey castle which at 12 meters high is one of the tallest in Wales. It was attacked by the locals in 1153, 1189 and 1215. Owain Glyndwr.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: "Avenir Book";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: "Avenir Book";">RIVER TOWN TRADE<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: "Avenir Book";">The river Taf with its stone quays still visible brought trade up the river. Lime for the kilns, materials for brick and tile making. There was shipbuilding. The <i>Sophia Well</i> (130 tonnes) was built there in 1839. She plied her trade as far as Malta, Constantinople St Petersburg and Quebec.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: "Avenir Book";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRtNE9nROloZNvqsK75n-wrB_sRT9bKBfFrFmXbF_SvMdXHjvZP-4tvlEepsTzUgnHGXTyVWWesgPT0IX-XX3QS1VKYLAroeXrK6VWI-GAeytCmPMhmLSA4NERfSqAPIBun9AILm-okOnn1G9UOHjExxmJY7qn47tsYc_c2jiuptaZ22wg89blQiSvCA/s4896/St%20Clears%209:22%20P1010354.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRtNE9nROloZNvqsK75n-wrB_sRT9bKBfFrFmXbF_SvMdXHjvZP-4tvlEepsTzUgnHGXTyVWWesgPT0IX-XX3QS1VKYLAroeXrK6VWI-GAeytCmPMhmLSA4NERfSqAPIBun9AILm-okOnn1G9UOHjExxmJY7qn47tsYc_c2jiuptaZ22wg89blQiSvCA/w400-h300/St%20Clears%209:22%20P1010354.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /><span style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: x-small;">Once a great trading river</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: "Avenir Book";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: "Avenir Book";">There was a regular boat service from St Clears to Bristol.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: "Avenir Book";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: "Avenir Book";">The railway arrived in 1854 and the port of St Clears fell into a decline. Although there is room for pleasure craft at high tide – witness St Clears Sailing Club. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: "Avenir Book";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgms-mJjnJsU8uGSovmfpvBYFXgzFVpAL3A9l47kGQnWn3EVgVgtmWT_5ZJ_3XIZzQaFkltGpmYUBb_u1Wh8Kb1e5dF_BMJlAvorKJbl6Xd4cLGIUTyvQnTiuIDHuJ9OKrQ2JFWih8BsTrocJVesNvPoGAFBtCfOzB8_0VxRZWFLbWHqU4HVyxBKqxX-w/s4896/St%20Clears%209:22%20P1010347.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgms-mJjnJsU8uGSovmfpvBYFXgzFVpAL3A9l47kGQnWn3EVgVgtmWT_5ZJ_3XIZzQaFkltGpmYUBb_u1Wh8Kb1e5dF_BMJlAvorKJbl6Xd4cLGIUTyvQnTiuIDHuJ9OKrQ2JFWih8BsTrocJVesNvPoGAFBtCfOzB8_0VxRZWFLbWHqU4HVyxBKqxX-w/s320/St%20Clears%209:22%20P1010347.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: x-small;"><br />Pleasure craft still popular </span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: "Avenir Book";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: "Avenir Book";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: "Avenir Book";">In 1964 the railway station closed. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: "Avenir Book";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: "Avenir Book";">MORE RECENTLY<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: "Avenir Book";">Reopening the station has been an on-off campaign since 1973. In fact building work to put platforms in place this year with an operational date of 2024. Detail </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Clears_railway_station" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Avenir Book";">here</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: "Avenir Book";">.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: "Avenir Book";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: "Avenir Book";">This year has also seen the opening of a 24 hr McDonalds and a Greggs both conveniently located by the main road and the Travelodge.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: "Avenir Book";"><br /></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjimlBuvNEF7kSulu_Z0nrGErWm9qf3crG89Q9gLg1R4FTTClC9Q0caVwOqJi2Gaq2BoEgixDcrjMAp-n5irXZjN8W8zlI3MS_IIXHa1tRSwcMRr4kFIP4xO1oBpS-2QV_e42ZLS8ZTgR5JYYhiK5JbIKt5aGP43eAiooPTDZ-KTMO7xj-OZGjJS6xIew/s4896/St%20Clears%209:22%20P1010337.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjimlBuvNEF7kSulu_Z0nrGErWm9qf3crG89Q9gLg1R4FTTClC9Q0caVwOqJi2Gaq2BoEgixDcrjMAp-n5irXZjN8W8zlI3MS_IIXHa1tRSwcMRr4kFIP4xO1oBpS-2QV_e42ZLS8ZTgR5JYYhiK5JbIKt5aGP43eAiooPTDZ-KTMO7xj-OZGjJS6xIew/s320/St%20Clears%209:22%20P1010337.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /><span style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: x-small;">Off street parking</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: "Avenir Book";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: "Avenir Book";">St Clears detail </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Clears" style="color: #954f72;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Avenir Book";">here</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: "Avenir Book";"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: "Avenir Book";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: "Avenir Book";"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The writer is a regular donator to the wonderful Wikipedia organisation </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>Tim Baynes Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17000787330589541085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5255565130713497508.post-44517864641620847692022-10-30T20:01:00.001+00:002022-10-30T20:01:00.175+00:00THE ESTUARY: REFLECTIONS ON HIGH WATER<span style="font-family: Avenir;">Two days of extraordinary high tides, thank you Mr Moon. </span><div><span style="font-family: Avenir;"><br /></span></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbFNcCBUajuowvhB6N7sQx6SD82TMyO5-z0rEPDzVHm64MHL7y54U5JMXsrbz_GaIVVrrpkrh3ZZQ8r7ye1B4WIIupmkjOuMRLbFpH4k4QMpkYJqXdo8Q62mkQT7qkMF--jJdSKFuR7r-h7pVEGpYeDcoZoMTiFRYt4KA8qH0br1gD-xCt1Kf3HqVy9w/s4032/95EA6F6B-7C0F-4758-BD36-7A85D0D94CA3_1_201_a.heic" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbFNcCBUajuowvhB6N7sQx6SD82TMyO5-z0rEPDzVHm64MHL7y54U5JMXsrbz_GaIVVrrpkrh3ZZQ8r7ye1B4WIIupmkjOuMRLbFpH4k4QMpkYJqXdo8Q62mkQT7qkMF--jJdSKFuR7r-h7pVEGpYeDcoZoMTiFRYt4KA8qH0br1gD-xCt1Kf3HqVy9w/w400-h300/95EA6F6B-7C0F-4758-BD36-7A85D0D94CA3_1_201_a.heic" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;"><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">GULLS LOOKING FOR THE LANDING STRIP </span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: Avenir;"><br /></span><div><span style="font-family: Avenir;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Avenir;">This morning the water laps the footpaths and covers the foreshore. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Avenir;">‘Neath the castle is just enough grass for me to stand and do my tai chi.
Across the marshes by the estuary real estate is at a premium this daybreak. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Avenir;">Gulls dispute, oyster catchers run tight-turned sorties, </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Avenir;">Mr Heron stands apart. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Avenir;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrOStPe7hIIZp8oZpF6F8FniKSx7MGiaIp6Yj1l3MGcN8NheVjYM_MyDeSRmo18cwZENthlO5oYxssD_4lGzGPBHPtgMMRXmdTV4i5LAC1r0YrRR55YoLi5ZrHwy19lhfIrFitrRpCcDuZIrk2Gl-uDORZU_GtB7s35sZNRLGCk3OimnF0zUgbc4tPFg/s1211/6274DF19-A51E-4317-AC14-5870985168E4_1_201_a.heic" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="941" data-original-width="1211" height="249" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrOStPe7hIIZp8oZpF6F8FniKSx7MGiaIp6Yj1l3MGcN8NheVjYM_MyDeSRmo18cwZENthlO5oYxssD_4lGzGPBHPtgMMRXmdTV4i5LAC1r0YrRR55YoLi5ZrHwy19lhfIrFitrRpCcDuZIrk2Gl-uDORZU_GtB7s35sZNRLGCk3OimnF0zUgbc4tPFg/s320/6274DF19-A51E-4317-AC14-5870985168E4_1_201_a.heic" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Avenir;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Avenir;">Grey sky with just enough sun, somewhere, to cast a zing of orange, briefly on the waters. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Avenir;">An unyielding breeze hackles the water. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Avenir;">A canoeist his arm, and makes the crossing. </span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: Avenir;"><br /></span></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzZLUbO4GeQ5-Q2BgG8wXvKnr-YNIQtvBItekp-3mk88JiAaVEYqCfBn2_DXP9nSWZeEuQ_bT6Ly7yqzme0ENjBF6Hhch8PbIl7GFOz0XhqVokSHn5uNFLAb172jkBRx2SyDnlFZz0wFu0Ab1UgW5dtmpwb1NPWWSXUkmdHGiOdd_H4bF8qYy0jR4uvg/s4032/37827109-E3E8-4C86-8C9D-A104043FEFD1_1_201_a.heic" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzZLUbO4GeQ5-Q2BgG8wXvKnr-YNIQtvBItekp-3mk88JiAaVEYqCfBn2_DXP9nSWZeEuQ_bT6Ly7yqzme0ENjBF6Hhch8PbIl7GFOz0XhqVokSHn5uNFLAb172jkBRx2SyDnlFZz0wFu0Ab1UgW5dtmpwb1NPWWSXUkmdHGiOdd_H4bF8qYy0jR4uvg/w400-h300/37827109-E3E8-4C86-8C9D-A104043FEFD1_1_201_a.heic" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: x-small;"><br />AND THE SUN MAY SHINE</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: Avenir;"><br /></span></div>Tim Baynes Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17000787330589541085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5255565130713497508.post-1053818220080917282022-10-27T19:30:00.001+01:002022-10-27T19:30:00.166+01:00HOUSE TO HOUSE<p><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;">For a more domestic perspective on Guernsey under German occupation go straight to the <b>German Occupation Museum</b>. </span><span style="font-family: Avenir;"><a href="http://www.germanoccupationmuseum.co.uk">http://www.germanoccupationmuseum.co.uk </a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;">Lest we forget; The Channel Islands were the only British Territory to be occupied by the Germans during WW2.</span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;">Here, through ration books, newspaper articles, posters diaries and hundreds of photographs all pinned to the walls you get a sense of what it was really like to be occupied, the shortages, privations and day-to-day living under martial law.</span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;">Yes, we all endured the Covid lock down and some really suffered, really recently.</span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;">Guernsey’s</span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;">was a five-year lock down, with no nightly cheering at 8pm. This was hardship. hunger and sacrifice. Relief came, for some, with an international Red Cross boat in 1944</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;">Many islanders resisted the German Occupation by defiance and acts of sabotage. Those caught suffered appallingly in prisons on the continent. Some did not return.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;">The Germans invaded on June 30, 1940, and grudgingly surrendered on May 9, 1945.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"><b>This is Excellent museum #3. The ‘<i>Most Thoughtful Layout And Curation Award</i>’ goes to this museum.</b><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMx-y3kza71IOBbdz4QAoReKRV6HB62CdPrzL6PcD2zu8XYVYghB3w_O7VXXspT0MyqxmPqPIc8DPcIFwy6iwSYa7cEwviCrftxNYTJ3M8LKIgpOHbTzPtEJziQGif-pQF5i1einf3ECmfWw4zntOBeUhhZwm0n-iLWjua1evR2FipEXmwxgEWWpEoOg/s4223/IMG_6120.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3482" data-original-width="4223" height="330" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMx-y3kza71IOBbdz4QAoReKRV6HB62CdPrzL6PcD2zu8XYVYghB3w_O7VXXspT0MyqxmPqPIc8DPcIFwy6iwSYa7cEwviCrftxNYTJ3M8LKIgpOHbTzPtEJziQGif-pQF5i1einf3ECmfWw4zntOBeUhhZwm0n-iLWjua1evR2FipEXmwxgEWWpEoOg/w400-h330/IMG_6120.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /><span style="font-family: Avenir;">Gun emplacements across the island </span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAbAhcRMhOj82whBmhvnhBMX2xNTiIOFrfI55Sr6PyAuzOEYrhTOngfhd_GzbAi7qp76hIdgLtJwLrRU-Wu9SFDWN1DPUqFfXeSL_AkvehBdZNgMuGt0KgBZ1L_wBmANfJuDBTbe4-ZkTnSBJFoR9lNsj7JShyntjs64TbqeC9N_I6XHqqMmR2CHz7vQ/s4029/IMG_6123.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3367" data-original-width="4029" height="334" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAbAhcRMhOj82whBmhvnhBMX2xNTiIOFrfI55Sr6PyAuzOEYrhTOngfhd_GzbAi7qp76hIdgLtJwLrRU-Wu9SFDWN1DPUqFfXeSL_AkvehBdZNgMuGt0KgBZ1L_wBmANfJuDBTbe4-ZkTnSBJFoR9lNsj7JShyntjs64TbqeC9N_I6XHqqMmR2CHz7vQ/w400-h334/IMG_6123.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /><span style="font-family: Avenir;">Sian completes a weapons check<br /><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuGUxz2QiVE6_BevMeR1HcC8lpsf7OTVP_IH3SCixueEY6hZJKdpHAw3iUpp8TQHiSO-T7HSg1GJ_4ujRSGaewootz_RGu32fvzywBqQ75PflfNSfCKOtVDQ9S5Oq7KaVniPFzm8v96lN9x92vDbYjwGMawewDoJGbbGt2AtR4JnSAsLDa6PYt4xjqdw/s4896/IMG_6126.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuGUxz2QiVE6_BevMeR1HcC8lpsf7OTVP_IH3SCixueEY6hZJKdpHAw3iUpp8TQHiSO-T7HSg1GJ_4ujRSGaewootz_RGu32fvzywBqQ75PflfNSfCKOtVDQ9S5Oq7KaVniPFzm8v96lN9x92vDbYjwGMawewDoJGbbGt2AtR4JnSAsLDa6PYt4xjqdw/w400-h300/IMG_6126.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;"><br />In the spotlight: this was a common sight from 1940-45</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Avenir;"><br /></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht25lEtGsjflPdEXyMyYGqXDYD7Y7K4gfP30UDJKgZW7tDecv1zOpnNo-Bwv6b-VMDE4wJ6zerYS4dPHnOWzLU9S5qRSB151orjLq0nHvHIus5jmzu8yGTQKcLMRxkq3YkjZeTxsbgiUJsVMlrFgwnDReM0gOBwWBPCoM0NKjEkriI-kZoZFC_3ViReA/s4896/IMG_6119.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht25lEtGsjflPdEXyMyYGqXDYD7Y7K4gfP30UDJKgZW7tDecv1zOpnNo-Bwv6b-VMDE4wJ6zerYS4dPHnOWzLU9S5qRSB151orjLq0nHvHIus5jmzu8yGTQKcLMRxkq3YkjZeTxsbgiUJsVMlrFgwnDReM0gOBwWBPCoM0NKjEkriI-kZoZFC_3ViReA/w400-h300/IMG_6119.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;"> <br />R&R? a German officer and his girlfriend</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p>Tim Baynes Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17000787330589541085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5255565130713497508.post-65303840925478720862022-10-24T19:30:00.001+01:002022-10-24T19:30:00.164+01:00GOING UNDERGROUND - GETTING TANKED UP<p><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;">La Valette Underground Military Museum is a sort of </span><i style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;">Grand Designs</i><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"> project. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;">The German occupying forces built a complex of four huge tunnels, each to house a fuel tank. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;">Never finished this unground complex stood unused as an intended U-boat re fuelling station. The massive tanks were sold off to islanders all except one which stayed in place. It is GIGANTIC. The others were cut up and used to store fuel for the Guernsey growing industry.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;">In 1978 someone said I know we could turn it into a cool museum. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;">Now it is a wonderful giant toy box full of military bits and bobs curated in the press your nose up against a glass display case style. A remarkable range of buttons, bows, ribbons, medals, weapons little and large. A full range of army, naval and air force uniforms. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Avenir Book;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Our second brilliant </span><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">Guernsey</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> museum visit.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKztBx8OcST3V_o5hYsrtL4dHAcdbNgwsJ2Sk-RsWOsDqAehpg0jNKvhIUlqrPPKN6Ci5B8zhatdoR0o1v1yCtJpd0nDbj7DfekCEm6-xlZPIjfySLNaF786ApM-pfwBTA-ZlTcigWMZmgBdRSw8tYgJQcCOINEBmqz955DEuxXOujvlTe8gXpauTojQ/s4896/IMG_6030.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgg2uWn5BGm75UewCkRSPZinNl731t_qZDWE5loK78Su2CC3MADHHS-o_fQCJkbdeQ_VPfI1PlH0cQXH8abVcSpUlE1XdOF2xg_JcXNRuYj_horE_oKlIvRn4ROptdUHKmdeqn9dJ20Yk5VtvzmpQcRm96DqdfKee_ltXj-SQf7QNS64MojUaf3cxAMuA/w400-h300/IMG_6077.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /><span style="font-family: Avenir;">One of the four oil storage tanks</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMVpzse-xuslraBy9M0gjW9ueGgjCHDDDbkll3OqjqWW5Nyby_iTzBn-6EKFCzf29XHvqqucK6N3BJcwOj_zoLZyCHMyTYba4VXPjyFlr0mlwgyUtxiiHKR2EVFMFMc7WRvIgpXG5NLAzp6Gwhl5UJLZW7ML3p2aB7yW-7FPE1P2UQ73hbit7EFaPs9w/s4896/IMG_6079.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMVpzse-xuslraBy9M0gjW9ueGgjCHDDDbkll3OqjqWW5Nyby_iTzBn-6EKFCzf29XHvqqucK6N3BJcwOj_zoLZyCHMyTYba4VXPjyFlr0mlwgyUtxiiHKR2EVFMFMc7WRvIgpXG5NLAzp6Gwhl5UJLZW7ML3p2aB7yW-7FPE1P2UQ73hbit7EFaPs9w/w640-h480/IMG_6079.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxe_0eqLZg5f7r9mWwy0WMF7xlsBOPboN28lb-tD4ytHwgU1Wn44_6w0NUWreYe_4OOIUC6GvIDBjebCoe4bUUP1VcIR4R6-Tf1h3U1EPyPqDSEkTTdAguDM3vkPW6NreBF1uHTT-kETpe9rdQfoTZL1d5zVnEF3ihOhovs3j2SK68N1gpS_V8euN5RA/s4896/IMG_6080.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxe_0eqLZg5f7r9mWwy0WMF7xlsBOPboN28lb-tD4ytHwgU1Wn44_6w0NUWreYe_4OOIUC6GvIDBjebCoe4bUUP1VcIR4R6-Tf1h3U1EPyPqDSEkTTdAguDM3vkPW6NreBF1uHTT-kETpe9rdQfoTZL1d5zVnEF3ihOhovs3j2SK68N1gpS_V8euN5RA/w400-h300/IMG_6080.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><br /><span style="font-family: Avenir Book;"><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">A corridor runs the entire length of the underground bunker:<br /> full of military bits and bobs</span></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><p></p>Tim Baynes Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17000787330589541085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5255565130713497508.post-16585751252135446982022-10-14T19:56:00.000+01:002022-10-14T19:56:00.166+01:00CASTLES AND CONCRETE<p> <b style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;">CASTLE AND COUNTER CASTLE</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;">Cornet Castle watches over St Peter Port and has done for about 800 years.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;">The Normans first fortified this rocky outpost. Across the Middle Ages it was back and forth between French and English ownership. (Think Channel Crossers 2021) One French invasion was led a Welshman, Owain Lawgoch. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD3_troPM9LovW15IyyUFfH9YQHhKTmK4voGHg-X0L8Rupw_df0QDyA19CnWdrAr7-tcmgoA53UyQ2rjpMOrpK-4nFnzQbQmhjunysM4kG7y-k__W78B4SjGmZSqvtwvpa3mHqZltCP60dPVpgvgEfmfa2_1ptx-1DAElznpiWAbDZxAidvNjhH_bO3Q/s4896/P1010630.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgD3_troPM9LovW15IyyUFfH9YQHhKTmK4voGHg-X0L8Rupw_df0QDyA19CnWdrAr7-tcmgoA53UyQ2rjpMOrpK-4nFnzQbQmhjunysM4kG7y-k__W78B4SjGmZSqvtwvpa3mHqZltCP60dPVpgvgEfmfa2_1ptx-1DAElznpiWAbDZxAidvNjhH_bO3Q/w400-h300/P1010630.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /><span style="font-family: Avenir;">St Peter Port </span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfAnLEUxphAjmCYfnF1L75M5OLatvjOjdFZOkp1ifTmMGH4lwRTORDoaTrdPDfpx1eSsm_WP7YjNfql8oR0sugl1JFXvoN6BUYeZvAt-HzLV1oABXksnIWA5a7XX6Ws6SWeHYYwwsrBFBfr2H3N6UaAlif0msYvl0ibO2fcSrPQuDCByMnRNwXnHYI1w/s4896/IMG_6039%20(1).JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfAnLEUxphAjmCYfnF1L75M5OLatvjOjdFZOkp1ifTmMGH4lwRTORDoaTrdPDfpx1eSsm_WP7YjNfql8oR0sugl1JFXvoN6BUYeZvAt-HzLV1oABXksnIWA5a7XX6Ws6SWeHYYwwsrBFBfr2H3N6UaAlif0msYvl0ibO2fcSrPQuDCByMnRNwXnHYI1w/w400-h300/IMG_6039%20(1).JPG" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;"><br />The big guns of Cornet - seenin' off them Frenchies</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;">Charles (I) sold bits off to the local council in return for running the place, feeding the garrison and such. A nine year siege during the civil war saw Parliamentarian John Lambert holed up in Cornet. Lambert took up gardening. His garden which has been re-created, nice sage bushes, I helped me self to a few leaves for supper.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVdvdTkJEz7YtPY6i6NEDFBosXJ7HUuSBeWg3RTuC8DItLiHIPo9T9Diu5_6VOwxzBGHQVtybr9KCBpTxgoqkemE3UkB0JhrsvQhb3qv6yljz_veQCf1B1n-P3Z5T4idsxcjGc2Gox8bEz8IvkcW0sImcbn2ltg0pENhOSq-RoQG_0_5NN0LieuxHV5A/s4896/IMG_6033.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVdvdTkJEz7YtPY6i6NEDFBosXJ7HUuSBeWg3RTuC8DItLiHIPo9T9Diu5_6VOwxzBGHQVtybr9KCBpTxgoqkemE3UkB0JhrsvQhb3qv6yljz_veQCf1B1n-P3Z5T4idsxcjGc2Gox8bEz8IvkcW0sImcbn2ltg0pENhOSq-RoQG_0_5NN0LieuxHV5A/w400-h300/IMG_6033.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /><span style="font-family: Avenir;">One gardener enjoying the work of another </span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;">Like most of Guernsey Castle Cornet enjoyed lots of upgrades during the Napoleonic Wars. And in WW2 the Germans moved in with their modifications. Concrete of course.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;">GRANITE SEA CONCRETE <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;">‘Granite sea concrete’</span></i><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"> must be rather like a game of <i>‘Rock, paper, scissors’</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;">This island was strewn with Martello towers, impressive granite structures. Aiming to see of any French sea invasions during the Napoleonic wars (1803 – 13). Fort Hommet on the West coast was one example.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLkipRd19vBpjAfvPblBIHv8jhHfvm7GwgZAiFKUWJDF-Sriw148MQN6_2VZp5kRLgI4B8QqLPsaCCfgI5bmQsOwRGkChETq-u5fZmeupmn0sVebmRVPRMi7gsU4EjwyDRtrPPUYEWLQSs-ymco5uuIsMUx0ktuSgwdhFcSJq28ZQcz9--LT0Uyg55FQ/s3853/IMG_6090.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2784" data-original-width="3853" height="289" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLkipRd19vBpjAfvPblBIHv8jhHfvm7GwgZAiFKUWJDF-Sriw148MQN6_2VZp5kRLgI4B8QqLPsaCCfgI5bmQsOwRGkChETq-u5fZmeupmn0sVebmRVPRMi7gsU4EjwyDRtrPPUYEWLQSs-ymco5uuIsMUx0ktuSgwdhFcSJq28ZQcz9--LT0Uyg55FQ/w400-h289/IMG_6090.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />Along the road to Hommet </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;">Then <i>‘ello’,</i> thought the just arrived German army engineers in 1940 <i>‘this (‘zis) will make a good gun battery’</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;">Pimp my Fort was the program of importing much slave labour onto the island as part of a vast customisation of these forts with exciting modernist concrete extensions. The Germans transported over 16,000 slave workers to the Channel Islands to build fortifications.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBpzataaWc8DJ28Sue1Yo6cK6Wh8YMkAkA91R58BxzLri1I5SfTypc5F9mr9iM6fh3VTCdBHfX__GznVHPQneGAx6rSSEH0ZDisNtO0pWnyfytgzWc_Jh0g-eFwjR99LqAMQORY9xGL9PSDlfMFNsNoWZzGw438xTk-G124zdcDslv2DpGTVbk8WmmJw/s4230/IMG_6102%20copy.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3376" data-original-width="4230" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBpzataaWc8DJ28Sue1Yo6cK6Wh8YMkAkA91R58BxzLri1I5SfTypc5F9mr9iM6fh3VTCdBHfX__GznVHPQneGAx6rSSEH0ZDisNtO0pWnyfytgzWc_Jh0g-eFwjR99LqAMQORY9xGL9PSDlfMFNsNoWZzGw438xTk-G124zdcDslv2DpGTVbk8WmmJw/s320/IMG_6102%20copy.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /><span style="font-family: Avenir;">The visitors' book </span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;">Add a search light or two, observation post or two and guns facing out to sea – K331s and anti-tank PAK 36 gun (made by Skoda). And then a M19 automatic mortar, 120 rounds a minute, 750 metre range. By the time this extraordinary work was completed Guernsey had more guns emplacements than the entire Normandy coast.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyu19Y0tyNauqOAmPe4QceWtjhM7wwmYQVX_xm1rXgyKuKcWfjMs5BitQUHG1czd_Zl5MEFsNW639rBBtoaVwTxpAh8QSq_MG8kFkUTXoiqzxjrE5flLFFB5JCRd0p02_4M9vzNGCUPJYD7WH6LqHND6TSerp61QNFMe17xzOKpcRJtR2b2Hp5vCPaLQ/s4006/IMG_6096.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2348" data-original-width="4006" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyu19Y0tyNauqOAmPe4QceWtjhM7wwmYQVX_xm1rXgyKuKcWfjMs5BitQUHG1czd_Zl5MEFsNW639rBBtoaVwTxpAh8QSq_MG8kFkUTXoiqzxjrE5flLFFB5JCRd0p02_4M9vzNGCUPJYD7WH6LqHND6TSerp61QNFMe17xzOKpcRJtR2b2Hp5vCPaLQ/w400-h235/IMG_6096.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /><span style="font-family: Avenir;">Crumbling into the sea </span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p>Tim Baynes Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17000787330589541085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5255565130713497508.post-18853283981157835812022-10-08T19:14:00.000+01:002022-10-08T19:14:07.401+01:00Camp or Kitsch? Either way it is a treasure.<p><b style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Avenir Light, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;">Guernsey</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> II. Camp or Kitsch? Either way it is a treasure.</span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Just around the corner from a posh independent school is <b>The Little Chapel</b>. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">It was by Brother Déodat. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">The good Brother’s idea was a miniature version of the grotto and basilica at Lourdes, the Rosary Basilica. Fair dinkum. It went through several iterations. Was bashed about rebuilt and then bashed about again. What you see today is a tiny treasure that you can just about walk through and down through several side chapels. Everything is decorated as would befit the Church of Rome. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Fr. Déodat finished a second chapel in July 1914 (measuring 9 feet by 6 feet).[6] However, when the Bishop of Portsmouth visited in 1923, he could not fit through the door, so Déodat again demolished it. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">The third and current version of the chapel started soon after the last demolition, and measures 16 feet by 9 feet.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcO0dxKBEA_ExHyy09GAHlJQoXrveffKNfoqpNrjX-Id7GMSVrJjOnV60l9nYiJw_2Ohn12r8Dhxsayhv46CUzVtHof8ejz0Xq_p9c9zbRjJ9QqnLhvzOSAWIPjkdqZOaPrEQUt64aSS9RABD6avv5w-eB5G53b8wXD9juWt6ZNAHdtfAqabfoRU0xtA/s4896/4F93DB0C-FEC5-4532-9B3D-E174907B789E.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4896" data-original-width="3672" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcO0dxKBEA_ExHyy09GAHlJQoXrveffKNfoqpNrjX-Id7GMSVrJjOnV60l9nYiJw_2Ohn12r8Dhxsayhv46CUzVtHof8ejz0Xq_p9c9zbRjJ9QqnLhvzOSAWIPjkdqZOaPrEQUt64aSS9RABD6avv5w-eB5G53b8wXD9juWt6ZNAHdtfAqabfoRU0xtA/w480-h640/4F93DB0C-FEC5-4532-9B3D-E174907B789E.jpeg" width="480" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /><span style="font-family: Avenir;">A delightful interior </span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Glitz, delicate shards of pottery everywhere, seashells, pebbles, and broken china on every surface inside and out. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #954f72; font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Chapel" style="color: #954f72;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Chapel</a></span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;">This is another great reason to visit Guernsey! 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The later were to become essential must-wears within the next hour of the three hour crossing from Poole to St Peter’s Port Guernsey. There were many passengers wobbling their way to the toilets clutching those nice white paper bags.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqmaphb2pLVbHx-jBLev7V1JwEpNPzSU-cYZ1OTVl1z5p253huGvIi1HX-9l-RQC-IYUUdQ5lgWLdrr6n1RGe3-keutLKD6WiHLmsMszVHcuHoTXk-NbjUxGAGFxGE9eS57JxiajXwM5zn_8fCvcbQGUwo3Xp2NhHJJ9wYVILAzlLJZNlxXJy5KMcKoQ/s4811/Guersey%20Bound%20.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1549" data-original-width="4811" height="129" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqmaphb2pLVbHx-jBLev7V1JwEpNPzSU-cYZ1OTVl1z5p253huGvIi1HX-9l-RQC-IYUUdQ5lgWLdrr6n1RGe3-keutLKD6WiHLmsMszVHcuHoTXk-NbjUxGAGFxGE9eS57JxiajXwM5zn_8fCvcbQGUwo3Xp2NhHJJ9wYVILAzlLJZNlxXJy5KMcKoQ/w400-h129/Guersey%20Bound%20.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Avenir; font-size: x-small;"><br />BEFORE THE GREAT CHUNDER</span></td></tr></tbody></table><b><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Uncle Tim’s Cabin.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Our billet is a delightful and commodious cabin on the north-east of the island – Vale. Driving up we noticed a huge acreage of glasshouses. All empty, the remains of Guernsey’s once huge tomato growing industry. Huge until the Dutch had a go at the same idea. Made mental note to explore the one next door to us with a camera.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Going underground.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">One and a quarter miles of tunnel and low cavernous rooms. Part ammo dump, part military hospital. Dipping, cold and glistening in the light shed by ancient yet atmospheric bulkhead lights. Somewhere floats the music of Édith Piaf*. We are in a museum, a wonderful museum. The German Underground Hospital. Built by slave labour imported by the Nazis from across Europe. </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #954f72; font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.germanundergroundhospital.co.uk/" style="color: #954f72;">http://www.germanundergroundhospital.co.uk</a></span></span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Light", sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNphuXddj92todr75Aq1L1G6WieSDejA9eSKYnzDb5cQhpqLTnLuHJaxK6PVgVKRPB3-HIkHjrQb7ww_ZKvqXBRZLWATmUKRzO5UZLtHSID_Xt8l9yShbWWyNS9AZ6o9zsilIJkUnI_2e9Y7L_2bvFBVZN3EFtpeHqmk3cgVvO27ZRpAe7lKd25fEd_g/s4896/F8DBD882-6CFE-47AC-94B1-BDC2EA651EA3.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><br /></span><p></p>Tim Baynes Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17000787330589541085noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5255565130713497508.post-15905958751545723362022-09-30T19:04:00.001+01:002022-09-30T19:04:00.164+01:00 Long Gone Guernsey’s Toms<p><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; text-align: justify;">One of the most striking sights on the island is the sheer volume of empty and often collapsing and overgrown glasshouses . Next door to our billet is a huge one. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwYVaQhLc8Zkt6pQXZGK6BXGKYy7ezaYK6DAm3DejeVHy9iQnn2rxosHxMALBkJCYZpWgh4J_hkoRpClW62ZD3tX1HTHGs6ufMfHPK3DWSgEeoSLlx4yTVYtaMgV-lU0x9BNuKTGkTETujHun5S_FYxwt48pFapmLPqsYdjN72Q5jv99q1MDZ2dMQSnA/s4896/IMG_6074.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwYVaQhLc8Zkt6pQXZGK6BXGKYy7ezaYK6DAm3DejeVHy9iQnn2rxosHxMALBkJCYZpWgh4J_hkoRpClW62ZD3tX1HTHGs6ufMfHPK3DWSgEeoSLlx4yTVYtaMgV-lU0x9BNuKTGkTETujHun5S_FYxwt48pFapmLPqsYdjN72Q5jv99q1MDZ2dMQSnA/w400-h300/IMG_6074.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br />Just next door</td></tr></tbody></table><br />There are nine within a half-mile radius of our place. Often they are flanked by a chimney stack and a packing shed.</span></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVbfcM4IZG3ruypWblBvmXMceh5MR9w-m7_WLiqXgpgau4b7XZ8liIKNvgstNikBlWUeHJEt7Zq5LtEULKI_UeAr-WuW0atWeP0czZfTQbUj_gTet9tjBdpxsXsusH5BxnCNDEf2i8JgtRBjfUZISWTCpOjgwhIzC-D2wcXXIYjQGugLwvbXTfvwKy-g/s4726/IMG_6052.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3544" data-original-width="4726" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVbfcM4IZG3ruypWblBvmXMceh5MR9w-m7_WLiqXgpgau4b7XZ8liIKNvgstNikBlWUeHJEt7Zq5LtEULKI_UeAr-WuW0atWeP0czZfTQbUj_gTet9tjBdpxsXsusH5BxnCNDEf2i8JgtRBjfUZISWTCpOjgwhIzC-D2wcXXIYjQGugLwvbXTfvwKy-g/w400-h300/IMG_6052.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;"><br />The Packing Shed </span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; text-align: justify;">These glass mausoleums are what is left of an industry that started in1860. At that time the English discovered that tomatoes (a native of South America) were edible.</span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; text-align: justify;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; text-align: justify;">This island’s mild maritime climate (southernmost part of the British Isles) was just the place to grow them. And a declining ship building industry meant a ready supply of carpenters to knock out greenhouses.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";">By 1950 seven percent of Guernsey was under glass tended by two thousand commercial growers (total island pop. 45,347). Ten years later half a billion tomatoes were being picked and packed and sent to England. However years later still Dutch growers were contending for England’s tom-love.</span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";">Then in 1979 the oil crisis, sparked by the Iranian revolution, was the final factor in the industry’s collapse.</span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEdd8ZYtpfhFSHqXiBUnig5QFWqIsJLlhWx5Obf_dG4HttzWMesqonJI9TmIgIuVe6NiaLW-hm3vL4z21txVOTGC2SVYL4E2IHGjQpg98Rr31Y_hO0ZcRI-cWSz-02saLOEPwZy0xkxW9csNTVOMWBsw2lvH2w9go00hBcRHeUiZtzWcDUX613z5WctA/s4896/IMG_6063.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEdd8ZYtpfhFSHqXiBUnig5QFWqIsJLlhWx5Obf_dG4HttzWMesqonJI9TmIgIuVe6NiaLW-hm3vL4z21txVOTGC2SVYL4E2IHGjQpg98Rr31Y_hO0ZcRI-cWSz-02saLOEPwZy0xkxW9csNTVOMWBsw2lvH2w9go00hBcRHeUiZtzWcDUX613z5WctA/w400-h300/IMG_6063.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /><span style="font-family: Avenir;">Collapse</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";">Now all that is left are acres of glasshouses empty or often full of weeds and brambles trying to elbow their way to freedom. The States of Guernsey Island Development Plan is providing some help to owners to enable these sites to enjoy a new lease of life. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"><br /></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg22dINLGtFm_VINP6iPsAoKGbVsIcY4cNWpIN3reGj7_Nj41N0L6SQIKP6uE75eTtDTjtLXxTniePQx3jReQ362EeQqhYSOGVMLfeljfjAPIhYPPyuUTfD_MiIz7pet0oWdplJElE0cPCZCcopgpHeDvJPjz-VI8owdNwGzk_DKDW_y_61Bxe0bvdtqQ/s4896/IMG_6065.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg22dINLGtFm_VINP6iPsAoKGbVsIcY4cNWpIN3reGj7_Nj41N0L6SQIKP6uE75eTtDTjtLXxTniePQx3jReQ362EeQqhYSOGVMLfeljfjAPIhYPPyuUTfD_MiIz7pet0oWdplJElE0cPCZCcopgpHeDvJPjz-VI8owdNwGzk_DKDW_y_61Bxe0bvdtqQ/w400-h300/IMG_6065.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Avenir;"><br />Out of control <br /><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDTRkeXeAwUySAQfET2fl1iqGXeJ8SMVISBP1ooII3bGNsD-hFZn-00GKFX9HlDMtpOmptmh6OsZoxBGol5jXq30kjxPH73sg1xSNFJFKDZf8AEcGDzblzD_7zKHdyGoxYWZxJ1b0nJj4q69DdNt7imqeNfkaYCbcpQp7SMfZy3u89p4wpLGkXhza3Pw/s4896/IMG_6047.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3672" data-original-width="4896" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDTRkeXeAwUySAQfET2fl1iqGXeJ8SMVISBP1ooII3bGNsD-hFZn-00GKFX9HlDMtpOmptmh6OsZoxBGol5jXq30kjxPH73sg1xSNFJFKDZf8AEcGDzblzD_7zKHdyGoxYWZxJ1b0nJj4q69DdNt7imqeNfkaYCbcpQp7SMfZy3u89p4wpLGkXhza3Pw/w400-h300/IMG_6047.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /><span style="font-family: Avenir;">Bidding for freedom <br /><br /><br /></span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book";"><br /></span></p>Tim Baynes Arthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17000787330589541085noreply@blogger.com1