‘Portrait of Chipping Norton’ is being produced as an ebook for your computer, laptop, or ereader – and will also be available as a beautiful hardcopy printed book. Here are four pictures from ‘Portrait’, which I’ve taken this year exclusively for the book. More details soon, but ‘Portrait of Chipping Norton’ will be available in [...]
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CLASSIC CARS MINI-MOVIE
Here’s an ultra-short video clip of the Churchill Vintage and Classic Car Show held back in the summer. It’s really just a teaser-taster, but it’s fun. Car shows like this really make me take my hat off to the many classic car enthusiasts for keeping these fine old machines in working order, and sparkling clean [...]
TRANSITION CHIPPING NORTON 2012 AUTUMN FAIR
Yesterday’s Transition Chipping Norton 2012 Autumn Fair opened to gentle autumnal sunshine, which stayed all day, making for a relaxed event for traders and visitors alike. The Town Hall was packed with specialist stalls, ranging from wine and cheese to ceramics and animal illustrations. Outside, the Town Square featured singers, chickens, hand-woven cushions, and a [...]
THE CHURCHILL VINTAGE AND CLASSIC CAR SHOW
If you like classic cars, then the biennial Churchill Vintage and Classic Car Show is a must-see event, held on the wide sweep of Churchill’s village green. This pretty Cotswold community is just a 15-minute cycle ride from the TEE base in Chipping Norton, and is a near-neighbour of the Top Gear TV show presenter [...]
A BEAUTIFUL BLACK SWAN AT BIBURY
The River Coln attracts much wildlife to Bibury, including the rare black swan in this mini-vid. However, the birds must reckon that tourist offerings make easy pickings, and this creature is no exception. I’ve always taken great care to recall my late Mum’s warning, “Never feed the swans David – they’re bad tempered, and a [...]
THE WEAVERS’ COTTAGES OF ARLINGTON ROW
This video gives you a quick peep at an architectural piece de resistance, the brain-meltingly picturesque Arlington Row, in Bibury, not far from the handsome town of Cirencester. The Cotswold stone cottages once housed weavers who supplied cloth for ‘fulling’ – cleaning wool to remove oil and dirt – at Arlington Mill, also in Bibury. [...]
WAS WILLIAM MORRIS RIGHT TO CALL BIBURY THE MOST BEAUTIFUL VILLAGE IN ENGLAND?
Well, according to the craftsman-artist William Morris (above) it is – or was, when he was around in the last half of the 19th century. At that time, of course, the village of Bibury was deep in rural England, and the road through it would have been just a muddy trail. Today, Bibury is best [...]
POOHSTICKS: A GAME BORN AT THE HOUSE OF POOH CORNER
I wondered where Poohsticks came from, so I tracked down a copy of The House at Pooh Corner by A.A. Milne, and there on page 91 we find Pooh inventing the game, by accidentally dropping a fir cone off a bridge. The story develops when Pooh, Rabbit, Roo and Piglet are throwing sticks (easier to [...]
INTERNATIONAL POOHSTICKS COMPETITION ON THE RIVER THAMES, NEAR DORCHESTER
The World Poohsticks Championships are held on the Thames at Long Wittenham near Dorchester, just a few miles downstream from Oxford. Winnie the Pooh, a favourite of character of mine since childhood, was written by A.A. Milne and was set loosely in Ashdown Forest in Kent, many miles from here. But no matter, it’s all [...]
A few sketches!
Nothing like using a really soft pencil (4B) on a Spring day! The artistic merits are hardly at Turner Prize levels, though some may not think that’s a bad thing. Still, perhaps by the time this blog trucks through the Thames Valley and on to the North Sea, rusty skills will be honed!
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A GYPSY CARAVAN FOR SALE IN THE ENGLISH COTSWOLDS
- A few sketches!
- POOHSTICKS: A GAME BORN AT THE HOUSE OF POOH CORNER
- INTERNATIONAL POOHSTICKS COMPETITION ON THE RIVER THAMES, NEAR DORCHESTER
- Source of the Thames
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