Wivenhoe: We have wisteria action. Hurrah! Like a bedroom bound teenager waiting to burst with the first spurt of summer virility, the Wivenhoe wisteria has finally flowered. I can’t stop sniffing it, to be honest. Mr Mule’s bonkers Beach Boy ploy on Radio Wivenhoe to bring out the sun seems to have worked. Two hours [...]
They’re back! Yep, that time of year again. A cursory glance back at m’blog for oooh, some twelve months ago, and it seems that I was blogging all about the Bluebells of Wivenhoe. Well I never. We appear to be six days ahead of schedule this spring with the first sighting of the lovely Wivenhoe [...]
I’ve received some half decent response from my One Man Multi Media About Town effort in capturing digitally [oh yes] the offline splendour that was the Wivenhoe Passion Play over the Easter weekend. So much so that I thought that it was about time that I attempted to weave it all together. I’ve wanted to [...]
To the Philip Road Centre! …on Saturday evening for the Moving Image screening of Drive. “Is it a film about driving?” …asked the ever-observant @AnnaJCowen. Oh the temptation to tell the Girl that it was a West Coast re-interpretation of Mutiny on the Busses. Which is sort of true, if Butler and the boys had [...]
Early Saturday morning and @AnnaJCowen and I were booked in one of the Birdwalks being run by Richard Allen, Wivenhoe’s Birdman Supreme. This was the second time that I have joined the monthly meet of the estuary twitchers, walking out to the Creek and taking in the visitors that take a shine to Wivenhoe for [...]
This piece was first published in Colchester 101 magazine. Copies are available for free around pubs, shops and other public places in the town. “Don’t upset the ogre” was the advice that I was told ahead of an early morning meeting with Bob Russell, the LibDem MP for Colchester. “Bob has been representing this patch [...]
The concept behind Colchester 24 was simple: capture on camera life in Britain’s Oldest Recorded during one twenty-four hour period in the early Autumn of 2011. It is a social experiment that was first put in place back in 1986. A quarter of a century later seems like the ideal timeframe in which to revisit [...]
