Fancy a sail on the good ship Wivenhoe - Fingringhoe - Rowhedge Ferry? Course you do. Which is just as well, seeing as though the maiden voyage for the 2012 season started over the Easter weekend. Talk about choppy waters - sick bags at the ready ahead of the Rowhedge mooring. And that was just [...]
The new programme of events has just been published by the Lakeside Theatre at the University of Essex. Once again it is a challenging, accessible and rather appealing schedule of theatre, film, exhibitions, music and comedy. Plus some afternoon kid friendly events also thrown in. Trading as Arts on 5 (Square 5 - geddit?) the [...]
Having bemoaned the lack of opportunity for a mid-winter swim around these North Essex estuary parts, it was to our very good fortune that @AnnaJCowen and I stumbled across the bonkers West Mersea Boxing Day dip. Sadly the wetsuit was back at base, and so was the enthusiasm. An early morning bicycle ride from Wivenhoe [...]
And so that was a Year In Wivenhoe. Twelve months ago today, @AnnaJCowen and I said goodbye to Sunny Stockwell after fifteen years of doing the Lambeth Walk. OI!!!! …and then some, Comrades. The Great Escape was all about finding the Good Life. Instead we’ve found a garden come courgette minefield, some toxic sloe gin [...]
Just over a year since the South London Battle of the Blogs leaving party back in Sunny Stockwell, I welcomed m’SW8 colleagues over to Wivenhoe for the weekend. The plan was formally to twin Vauxhall Pier with Wivenhoe Pier (stop sniggering) and to raise a half pint of lager shandy to *ahem* co-operation. Failing that [...]
You call it a jetty, I call it a pier. Either way, it was lovely to see Wivenhoe’s very own walkway out towards the water [snappy] finding a use over the weekend. Following the grand opening of the jetty / pier by our friends from Taylor Wimpey earlier in the year, I had feared that [...]
You know that the Wivenhoe summer has truly arrived when you have to get out the wellies once again for a short stroll along the Trail and a wade up and down in the glorious estuary mud. Whoops. Failing that then there’s always that staunch season signifier of a copy of the esteemed Wivenhoe Society [...]
