Monday, 12 September 2016

Last of the summer

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Birds strut across these stubble-fields in Hopwas getting the last of the seeds after the crop has been cut & baled. The sight is an...
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Thursday, 21 July 2016

Ipstones pomp

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James Cope must have been quite a figure in the tiny Moorlands village of Ipstones during his lifetime. This grand tomb memorial was bui...
Thursday, 14 July 2016

Bavaria in Staffordshire

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This view could be one taken in Bavaria, or even the Czech Republic - but no, this is good old Staffordshire. I like taking visitors alon...
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Thursday, 7 July 2016

Spiky nature

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Gailey Reservoir - the reeds have a spiky appearance.
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Saturday, 18 June 2016

Fine art borders

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For all the talk about migration, not one of us would want to be out there on the migrant road, existing in squalid, horrible conditions....
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Wednesday, 15 June 2016

Fine art rabbits

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The Staffordshire University Fine Art Show for its final-year students should be a glorious romp of creativity; and fizzing with origina...
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Sunday, 12 June 2016

Queen's birthday in wool

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As is well known to confused foreigners, the Queen has two birthdays, one her actual birth-date and the other an official day of cel...
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Friday, 3 June 2016

Grey Ilam

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Definition of English summer: the greenest countryside under the greyest skies.  The gloomy grey stone of these Staffordshire countryside...
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Is this Sam Johnson I see?

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Lichfield Festival is upon us soon (starts July 1st), and no doubt there will be lots of references to the city's most famous son, D...
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Tuesday, 31 May 2016

Lobby in Bulgaria

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I know this is a little daft obsession of mine but -- I like to look for 'signs' of Staffordshire even when I have to leave the c...
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