The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. We will remember. (Button memorial in St. Martin’s Church, Little Waltham, Essex)
Category: Essex
Raiders of the Lost Carp
He sits in the tree at the bottom of the garden like an angel on top of a Christmas tree, right at the top, watching. “Raiders of the Lost Carp”
Southend After Dark
The nights are drawing in but the weather has been dry, so we’ve wanted to be out and about. Last night we had a wander “Southend After Dark”
Assandun
Leaving Paglesham the other day, we were happy and full, but we still didn’t feel quite done with our day. Not far away is St. “Assandun”
On the Road to Paglesham
The Essex estuaries are not just about riverways and coastal walks… it’s an interesting area dotted with villages that sometimes merge into urban sprawl. It’s “On the Road to Paglesham”
Autumn on Wallasea
Sometimes we don’t have to wander far to find lovely and unusual landscapes. We have been watching the the transformation of Wallasea Island for the “Autumn on Wallasea”
Macmillan Night
Britain has the most wonderful cancer support charity imaginable, and every year they urge us to hold “coffee mornings” to raise money to keep the “Macmillan Night”
A Ton of Wood
We’re getting ready for winter. We’ve converted the old WW2 brick bomb shelter in our back garden into a woodshed and stacked it to the ceiling with “A Ton of Wood”
Jeff’s Morning
As if to prove the point that where we live is a world away from London, Jeff snapped this picture on his early morning wanderings “Jeff’s Morning”
Across the Causeway
Living out on the Thames estuary is a far cry from living in London. Sometimes I long for a more cosmopolitan community, but other times “Across the Causeway”