Coach rolling by Stonehenge

Love this Turner print - a mezzotint. Very atmospheric. Stonehenge (1924).

Someone said this morning that in our lifetimes we've moved not to another age but another era - which started at the turn of the 21st century.

Notes on pilgrimage July 2019

Gerard Hughes (In Search of the Way) on the uninhabited Scottish island. Most people would not have the resources to cope - not just physically, but mainly mentally.
p123 "The pilgrim must travel light, otherwise he cannot continue on his way."
p 124 "Unless you lose your life, you cannot find it."
Both of Hughes' sisters committed suicide: he seems tough. There is no talk of depression.
He said that his family didn't go on seaside holidays but visited the relics of saints.

p108 "Our whole life and character is contained in any incident, no matter how trivial it seems."


- George Borrow, like many other long distance walkers, was a depressive

Other books:
In Praise of Walking/Thomas Clark
The Path to Rome/Hilaire Belloc

A day trip to Durham and fish and chips by the sea

A 500-mile round trip from King's Cross but worth it...
A wedding at the church in Kelloe - then fish and chips on the beach at Seaham where there is a huge metal statue of a World War One soldier on the front. Traditionally people picked up coal on the beach at Seaham. Still the odd bit to be found....

Hawthorn grove

A small wood of hawthorns on the hill above Belstone on the edge of Dartmoor. How does it come to be there? 

Hawthorns the place for trysts. As in Tristan and Isolde: the plotters meet beneath one.  

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Pilgrimage and St Anne D'Auray, Brittany

 St Anne D'Auray a famous place of pilgrimage in Brittany (in fact I think it's on the French section of the Camino de Santiago). But most exciting for me was discovering proof that the town is twinned with Camborne....
A wet day.  Lovely roses.
Thousands and thousands of names on the War Memorial, so poignant in the rain.

Annie Walke triptych at Truro Cathedral

Has no idea this lovely triptych by Annie Walke was in Truro Cathedral. Often think of her husband Bernard Walke (ill-fated vicar of St Hilary) and his fabulous autobiography. Annie Walke has some works at St Hilary but not as splendid as this.

Sketchbooks

Have to say - Turner's sketchbooks at Tate Britain are sensational. Imagine creating something like this in a notebook...

The west front of Winchester Cathedral in 1795....

And chez moi stunning flowers from friends from America who visited yesterday....

Hidden signals

You can (just) see the cross on this granite stone at Crelly in Crowan. But I would never have noticed it without the help of an Ordnance Survey map. 

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Susan Roberts
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A random day

A painting for a birthday card. 

Cherry blossom rescued from a tree trimmer - and the Cornish flag flying over Hammersmith on St Piran's Day.

Bradwell

Bradwell in Essex. One of (if not the oldest) churches in England. It was worth it. What a peaceful place.
It was so windy but inside completely calm. High windows. The tide was out and the salt marsh mud flats stretched for miles.  It reminded me (a bit) of Escomb church in County Durham.