Pint by the River – Shepherd Neame: Whitstable Bay Ale
Last year, Jeff, Andrew and myself sat out on the back stoop of the Dove doing our usual thing – drinking a few pints of foaming nut brown ale while concocting plans of what we could or should attempt next. We’ve always liked talking about beer. Liked drinking it a bit more than that if [...]
Country Bizarre Issue Ten
30 March 2010 // Country Bizarre
Winter 1972 In this issue; Windmils…….Plant a tree in ’73……Hops & Oast Houses……Vegetable Dyeing…..Puddings Country Bizarre Issue 10. Click HERE to view and download. Click HERE for the Country Bizarre story.
British Sea Power: Man of Aran
30 March 2010 // Film/TV //Music
Sheffield The Sensoria Festival of Music & Film’ (in conjunction with Caught by the River) is delighted to welcome special guests British Sea Power to perform their live soundtrack to Man of Aran for the festival’s closing night celebrations on Thursday April the 29th. Man of Aran is a powerful and provocative dramatised documentary from [...]
Lines Made By Walking
29 March 2010 // Lines Made by Walking
by Jude Rogers. 2. Connecting Lines When a few precious hours pop up in my week, between doing different things in different corners of town, I look at the distances between places, then my watch, then my shoelaces. If everything comes together, I take a breath and hit the pavements. This is where London comes [...]
The Laugharne Weekend
28 March 2010 // Books //Music
April 9th to 11th 2010 A truly inspired line-up for this years Laugharne Festival in Wales. Wish I could make it if only to see Fionn Regan play in Dylan Thomas’s boathouse and listen to Julian Cope talk stone circles… Press Release; The Laugharne line up has been finalised with the additon of JULIAN COPE, [...]
The South Country: Radio 3
27 March 2010 // Books //Radio
This looks interesting. Radio 3, Sunday, March 28th at 10.45pm. Inspired by the recent republication of Edward Thomas’s essay collection The South Country, the weekly sequence of music, poetry and prose celebrates the landscape of southern England, in particular three counties in which the poet loved to walk: Sussex, Hampshire and Wiltshire. Tamsin Greig and [...]
Letter From Arcadia
Waiting For Blossom ja as your season ended with that stillness in the pool of a pike’s eye, i stood behind winter’s barricade when the flesh eating winds of march came over, carnivorous skin-strippers from the east. planting an orchard and keeping the beacons alight with the hand slashed brambles of a new and promised [...]
Justin Partyka: Working the Land part one
Private view on Saturday 27th of March, 2pm – 4pm. This invitation is open to all our readers. If you plan to go please print a copy of the invitation and take it along with you. The following interview was conducted by Isabel Taylor for Albion Magazine. Reproduced by kind permission. Justin Partyka’s work is [...]
Birdsongs 3
24 March 2010 // Matt's Bird of the Week //Miscellany //The Bird Effect
Number three in our series of Birdsongs downloads goes out to all CBTR members this Friday. Selected by Ceri ‘Bird Effect‘ Levy with a sleeve by Matt Sewell (featuring, at Ceri’s request, a Lark) get yourselves on our mailing list to subscribe.
Country Bizarre Issue 9
24 March 2010 // Country Bizarre
Autumn 1972 In this issue; keeping chickens…..corn dollies…..the english garden…..papermaking revisited Country Bizarre, Issue 9. Click HERE to view and download. Click HERE for the Country Bizarre story.
