Mighty Fine Art (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
To take a break from the intensely detailed work I've been creating lately, I decided to spend some time practicing my basic watercolour techniques. So each day this week I've produced a small traditional watercolour painting, using a fairly loose style and with lovely diffused washes. Each of these took about 2 hours. I've put them all up for sale on the Mighty Fine Art website at quite low prices....
Unmitigated England (Free subscription) | 21/08/2009
A day at Walberswick on the Suffolk coast. Reached down winding lanes across the sandy heaths or by a rowing boat ferry from the Southwold shore, this is rapidly becoming a Daily Telegraph reading version of The Hamptons, that playground of the wealthy middle class in north east America. So reminiscent of Edward Hopper paintings with stark bright light, hard shadows and black weather boarded orange...
Waveney Valley Blog (Free subscription) | 06/08/2009
Holidays shared with friends and family are always fun, but planning a self-catering holiday for a large group of people can be a challenge if everyone has a different idea of what they'd like to do during their time away. Thankfully Suffolk’s heritage coast is home to some outstanding seaside resorts which offer something for everyone… and a range of big holiday cottages which provide...
Waveney Valley Blog (Free subscription) | 05/08/2009
Halesworth Station Walk by Michael Anderton Halesworth Station was built in 1859 and, in 1888, was provided with a moveable platform, designed to allow traffic along the main road. This was also once the junction with the Southwold branch line that opened for business in 1879 until it finally closed in 1929. It was also planned to extend the Mid Suffolk Light Railway from Haughley on the Ipswich to...
Ordinary World (Free subscription) | 31/07/2009
Remember this? What do you mean no? It appeared on this very blog mere months ago (February). As a sequel to Walberswick in the winter, here it is in the summer: Much better. I do like the summer time. I've been on annual leave this week. I thought "let's stay at home and have a nice lazy week" and then I thought "why not demolish the 70-year-old shed at the bottom of my garden and put...
Waveney Valley Blog (Free subscription) | 22/06/2009
click images to enlarge Try Golf For Free Weekends - Learn to Play Golf click for details Halesworth Golf Club The Golf Courses Halesworth Golf Club is situated in the heart of the Blyth valley, very accessible only 3 miles from the A12 on the A144. Map link The 18 hole championship course is set 190 acres of undulating countryside just a few miles from Suffolk’s famous heritage coastline, and...
Adam Leeder's Blog (Free subscription) | 15/06/2009
Yesterday I was at a meeting of Blyth Valley branch of Suffolk Coastal CLP where I was the guest speaker. I was speaking to the motion “Don’t Waste a Good Crisis: Should we turn Westminster upside down in light of MPs expenses'” My thoughts were as follows: Parliament: • Better scrutiny from Select Committees by having a free vote [...]
EADT24 - News (Free subscription) | 27/09/2008
CAMPAIGNERS fighting plans to abandon flood defences along the Blyth Estuary in north Suffolk were offered a glimmer of hope yesterday.
Telegraph Blogs : Guest (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
What kind of welcome will Gordon Brown get when he goes to Suffolk for his summer holiday next week? "The A12 is the worst road in the country, we face regular train delays and desperately need funding for flood defences in the Blyth estuary," says Peter Aldous, the prospective Tory candidate for the Suffolk Labour marginal of Waveney. "People here will be polite if they encounter him,...
EADT24 - News (Free subscription) | 25/02/2008
AN MEP has pledged to scrutinise European Union funds to see if help can be given in maintaining earth walls in a Suffolk estuary. Geoffrey van Orden yesterday was yesterday taken on a boat trip to see the breaches in the walls protecting Tinkers marsh in the Blyth Estuary, near Southwold.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 29/09/2007
Paddy Burt stays at the Blyth Hotel in the quintessentially English town of Southwold, Suffolk.
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