by Patrick | Nov 23, 2013 | art, Environment, Lifestyle, photography
Seaford’s seashore is a single shingle bank. Not a beach it seems but actually Seaford’s sea defence system. Some say this sea defence was made necessary by the extensions to Newhaven harbour, and the wakes of the larger vessels going in to the port which scoured away...
by Patrick | Nov 16, 2013 | Lifestyle, Remembrance
It was such a beautiful sunrise, and unusually for mid-November it was followed by a gloriously sunny day, almost Mediterranean. Now the leaves are gone from the trees I can see the headland easily from the house so after my morning porridge I took my camera for a...
by Patrick | Nov 9, 2013 | Environment, Lifestyle, Uncategorized
Its gently curving yet almost straight horns can line up when seen side on, so it may be the Oryx is the beast from which the Unicorn legend springs. Certainly Aristotle linked the name Oryx to the legend of the Unicorn. The story has it that only a virgin can capture...
by Patrick | Nov 4, 2013 | Lifestyle, Remembrance
The wearing of a poppy has stood as a symbol of remembrance in Britain and the Commonwealth since its introduction by the British Legion in 1921. It owes its place in symbology of war to poet and Canadian medic John McCrea, himself buried in the Commonwealth War...
by Patrick | Oct 26, 2013 | Lifestyle, Uncategorized
Seaford is an old town. The church was built about 1090 by William the Conqueror’s brother-in-law, who became the boss here after the invasion. (It was not the last invasion by the French – they last landed in 1752 in Fishguard when they reputedly...
by Patrick | Oct 19, 2013 | Environment, Lifestyle, photography, Travel, wilderness
Some photographs, like that of the Seven Sisters I mimicked in my last blog post, are determined by the location, and not much by the photographer or even his equipment. Like the views of the Seven Sisters, the giant sand dunes in the Namibian sand sea have been...
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