Esox in Arcadia
ladies and gentlemen www.andrewsofarcadia.com- vintage fishing tackle for the soul will have been out there in space for exactly one calendar year tomorrow and to celebrate this auspicious occasion there will be a special two week listing on the site. the first week will also mark the maiden cast in anger for this season’s pike [...]
Roger Deakin on the Radio
30 September 2009 // Miscellany
“I thought a lot of CBTR readers might like to hear Roger Deakin narrating a canoe trip down the Waveney which can be heard on a Radio 4 website – search cigarette on the waveney. And since birds are beginning to feature prominently, British Birds in Haiku is worth a look at the Wing Beats [...]
How I Learned To Live Without Candles
30 September 2009 // Miscellany
by Will Burns In the morning I felt cold and rolled over onto one side. Thought about the size of the trout that I had seen rising in the river after dinner, when I was down there walking. Right then I had wanted to catch one and kill it. I had forgotten about the roof, [...]
A Date for the Diary
29 September 2009 // Miscellany
Hackney Podcast – ‘Water’
Click here to listen. Fabulous stuff, by way of speechification.com thanks to CBTR reader John Adair for sending this in.
More (Country) Bizarre
28 September 2009 // Country Bizarre
following on from Fridays posts…. Jeff, That would be wonderful..I bought a copy of the Complete Country Bizarre years ago and read it periodically, I’ve also got “Country Bizarre’s Country Bazaar”by Schofield and Pittaway which is all about craft and I have the U.S version of it and the “Urban Dweller’s Country Almanac” just by [...]
Matt’s Bird of the Week – The Yellowhammer
28 September 2009 // Matt's Bird of the Week
A gorgeous summer bird, cute as a button made of butter but as nervous as a fireguard made of chocolate. Many are spotted whilst accompanying us on our countryside strolls, not that he likes our company its just that he thinks we are following him . Mainly to be found in allotments, fields and hedgerows [...]
Country Bizarre
25 September 2009 // Country Bizarre
Hi Su, I’m so pleased you have written in about Country Bizarre. I’ve been wanting to do something on it for some time. Last year a mate of mine asked if I knew of it. I didn’t, but have since bought ‘The Complete Country Bizarre – Numbers 1 -11′ and it’s fascinating. I attempted some [...]
Country Bizarre
25 September 2009 // Country Bizarre
Dear Caught by the River, …….Does anyone know anything about whatever happened to Bernard Schofield and Andy Pittaway who published the underground 1970′s British mag called Country Bizarre? It’s a fantastic mine of whimsy, love and simple living that’s a complete tonic and I reread my copy every now and then when the world seems [...]
The East Anglians
24 September 2009 // Miscellany
A major new exhibition of photographs by Justin Partyka, which explore an agrarian way of life, opens at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia (UEA), Norwich, on Tuesday 29 September and runs until Sunday 13 December. The East Anglians exhibition features a body of work by Justin Partyka which has resulted [...]
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