Kurt Jackson Etchings
As Kurt Jackson’s Forest Gardens exhibition draws to a close at the end of this week, we would like to draw your attention to a series of limited edition works on paper. With a range of subjects including garden vegetables, boats, lighthouses and seascapes, the series also features ‘Meadow Brown and Faller’, a drypoint specially [...]
Knot of the Day
drawn by Alexander Jardine. We are starting to build up a good collection of AJ’s work which we will eventually put up on CBTR. For now you can see a bit more of his work on his son Charles’ site. Have a great weekend. Jeff
Blog: Caught By The Red Indians
A confused and insecure start to what had already promised to be a tricky year was momentarily despatched last week as the god’s of good stuff gave us brief respite; Firstly, at Heavenly, Doves delivered a masterpiece of a fourth album. It is genuinely a killer. We had a collective ‘holy shit’ moment followed by [...]
Wye; Voices from the Valley
28 January 2009 // Film/TV //On Water
The story of life in the Wye Valley told by a ghillie, a sheep farmer, a bee-keeper and a cider farmer. Tonight on UKTV Gardens (what do you mean, do I have that channel!) – Sky 248 – 7pm and 11pm.
Good Casting
Timothy Spall as Peter Taylor. Genius. this from Empire magazine; Good films about football are rare – especially if the sight of Pele slaloming through a square-looking Wehrmacht back four doesn’t do it for you. That could be about to change though, judging by The Damned United trailer which has just hit the internet. The [...]
Kennet Barbel, 23/1/09
27 January 2009 // Caught By...
JB.. Even though I say so myself, here’s a picture of a deserved Padworth barbel (6lbs) after almost 9 hours braving gales, a river well and truly in flood (flotsam & jetsam included a car wheel, a couple of trees & a huge dead barbel belly-up), freezing rain and an odd bloke who walked past [...]
The Fellowship of Burbot Anglers
27 January 2009 // Caught By...
from Dan Perry; Dear brother of the angle, I issue a call to rods for all those who wish to assist in the search for that most neglected of Britain’s fish – the burbot. In gentler times it was known as ‘the lawyer’ but today even spell check on the computer has forgotten this noble [...]
WG Sebald by Robert Macfarlane
from 1000 novels everyone should read, the Guardian, Friday 23 January 2009 The Rings of Saturn (1995) Austerlitz (2001) No other writer of recent decades has matched the speed of WG Sebald’s ascent to the pantheon. It occurred in a little over five years. The Emigrants, the first book of Sebald’s to be published in [...]
Generation Kill
David Simon & Ed Burns post Wire drama starts tonight on FX (10pm).
Caught By The Liver – Stinger Beer
23 January 2009 // Food and Drink
After literally gallons of Young’s Kew Gold, I still loved it, but needed a change. The bloke in my local offy, we’ve got to know each other well obviously, recommended Stinger Beer. At first I was a little apprehensive. Thing is it’s a River Cottage product, Mr Fearnley Whittingstall’s. I don’t know about you but [...]
Caught by the River