Spider City in the shed

Here are some details of the incredible angel roof on the nave at Cawston in Norfolk - it dates from c.1460. On the hammer beams stand eleven six-foot tall seraphim, still with much of their original colour on them, their hands in prayer or raised in adoration.

Paths of Spring

My oak, planted from an acorn three years ago, now 22 inches high - photobombed by an extraordinarily foolish looking cat

The days when broad Suffolk required subtitles. I have - just once or twice - heard Suffolk accents even thicker than these, which I couldn’t actually understand at all

Delighted to share an upcoming event from our friends at SLHA: The Lincolnshire Coast through Music, Stories and Song will take place at Lincoln Museum and Usher Gallery on May 19th. Tickets through Eventbrite: eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-lincolns…

My walk - cowslips, daisies, St Mark's flies, chaffinches, curlews, great tits, skylarks, and my first cuckoo of '24 -and 15 minutes watching a young roebuck close to, while he scratched with his back leg, rubbed his antlers against a tree, and nibbled at neon-bright grass

An extraordinary rumination, a fine tribute to one of the greatest of poems

We mourn the death of the great Helen Vendler, a longtime contributor to The Yale Review.

Read her on T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land from our winter 1990 issue: yalereview.org/article/vendle…

Cartoonish eighteenth/nineteenth century graffiti at Norton Disney church - ancestral domains (apparently) of Walt's family

Derek Turner I opened a book by B Russell (The Conquest of Happiness) at university. It had extensive notes and commentary written in it, revealing the owner’s personal philosophy. I looked at the front of the book and found who’d owned it: Sir Peter Medawar, the Nobel prize winning biologist

Why I love old books - the things you can find inside. Here, in this 1927 travel book, are what seem to be two dialogue scraps from a play with a ghostly theme

Let it grow! 🌿

New research proves that letting parts of your garden grow wild with long grass can increase butterfly numbers by up to 93% and attract a wider range of species.

Read the full story 👉 butterfly-conservation.org/news-and-blog/…

📷: Will Langdon
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Rumours of cats' intelligence discounted by such scenes

Entertaining article from the reliably interesting 'Public Domain Review' - publicdomainreview.org/colle.../occul…... I like the 'DNB' description of Charles Leadbetter as 'an observant traveller on the astral plane' The Public Domain Review

Luminous spring day, yesterday. Helen Day Derek Turner AndrewSmith Craig Roberts

A butterfly-related bagatelle of mine! brazen-head.org/2024/04/06/the…

Midnight along Wolverhampton's canal - deeply dark and quiet, with its smell of old water, stirrings of ducks, and drips from C.19 bridges. Suddenly scenes like these and a distorted outburst from some band's gig - suitable sound for the Black Country, home of heavy metal

Free to download today Saturday. Would really appreciate some retweets, folks! Thank you, & a Happy Easter everyone!

Aleksandar Todorovski Piers Mellor David Moore Luke Gilfedder Derek Turner Gary Lachman John Morgan Justin Martello, M.D. FAAN Jesscyka

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Easter Monday in Cambria… St Davids Cathedral Derek Turner Craig Roberts Visit Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿