Month: October 2015
Bright Spinners
Our village is sporting some fantastic new spots of colour. These pinwheels are a bit of advance publicity for a community arts festival next week… how can you not smile…
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Out on the Coast
Our ragged coastline makes for interesting walking. Jeff tends to head out onto the mudflats (eewwww!) at low tide so he can poke around in search of fossils so old…
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Italy in Essex
I’ve been excited to go to the Italian Market on Rayleigh High Street. Expecting a crowd, we got there right at 9:00, which was the advertised start time, only to…
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Puzzling Rayleigh’s Monkeys
We were back in Rayleigh for an appointment this morning, and we dutifully walked the High Street for a bit of shopping and browsing. As always, we stopped to admire…
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Ready to Roll
The Royal Mail trucks are waiting for their Posties, all lined up in front of the sorting office. A silly thing, but I really do enjoy seeing the red trucks…
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Celebrating the Season
Halloween has become big business in the USA — I’m used to that, and have always liked both the popular festivities and the spiritual traditions in which they are rooted….
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Bright Spirit
I pass by this mural on the side of Thundersley Congregational Church every day, and don’t usually give it much thought, but this afternoon the sun was coming from just…
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Beachcombing
Beachcombing runs in the Saward family. While I walked along the seawall this morning, Jeff and our granddaughter, Lucy, shuffled along at the edge of the water, looking for (and…
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Grandmother Spider
Spiders. They are everywhere this time of year, and I marvel at their amazing webs. I love watching them spin and repair their lacy testaments to productivity and survival, but don’t…
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