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Bayan time (18): new angles for TOPJAM
On Sunday I played again at TOPJAM, the very friendly open music sessions that have been meeting at various venues around Topsham for some three years now. I think it's finally found its niche at The...
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An afternoon in Torquay #1
Torquay - click to enlargeReading around in connection with the recent post, Legends of Torquay and nearby, gave me a hankering to have another look around the area, so we went over for the afternoon...
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Tall-quay
A brief aside from yesterday's An afternoon in Torquay #1.I'm certainly not the first to notice this, but the happenstance of taking a photo from pretty well the exact location of the c. 1850 engraving...
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Killerton: quorema and knuckle-bones
View Larger MapI've taken a break from usual habits, and written the first draft of this with an Android tablet, on location - just below the summit of Killerton Clump (aka Dolbury Hill), a wooded hill...
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The Dolbury Dragon
Further to Sunday's post about Killerton: I noticed the location board for the park had a little dragon on the wooded summit of Killerton Clump. Looking afterward at the literature found the...
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Summer dawn on the Exe
This is a sort of sequel to Bright start and the pictures I took on New Year's Day. I never tire of the varying light and conditions over the Exe at Topsham. At 5:15 or so, it was so bright and warm...
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Shaldon: sea, sand, and subterranea
The Ness and Shaldon, from Teignmouth PierIt being another fine day (and Clare not being a fan of the heat) I took myself out this afternoon for a look at Shaldon, which I've never visited. Shaldon is...
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Tennyson Trail
View Larger MapFollowing on from Calbourne - WH Long: there being no public transport nearby, we decided to walk back to Newport along the Tennyson Trail. It looked straightforward: starting at Winkle...
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Coast: Teignmouth to Dawlish
Further to Shaldon: sea, sand, and subterranea: a few more impressions of Teignmouth. Like many southern resorts, it's a mix of styles; once you get away from the obvious resort frontage, it has a much...
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Backdated: Tennyson Trail
See Tennyson Trail.I have a bit of a backlog of photography. This is a temporary link to a new backdated post: photographs of our walk on part of the Tennyson Trail, Isle of Wight, at the beginning of...
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Seeking details: Devonport "Hindoo" Calvinist Chapel
Following the recent post Devonport Column open to public, I was interested in a historical loose end: are there any detailed records of the Mount Zion Calvinist Chapel that formed part of John...
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Lanes and landscape
Under the railway bridge, West Town FarmI mentioned I had a backlog of photography.The above rather post-apocalyptic image is of the viaduct over the long-closed Teign Valley railway, at West Town...
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After the Crash (1923)
In November 2012 (Muriel ... and After the Crash) I posted a brief critique of Maxwell Gray's short story After the Crash, "written about 1908 or 1910" but not published until her final book, the 1923...
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Teignmouth and Shaldon: revisit
Teignmouth from the Ness, CE Hannafordfrom South Devon, Charles R Rowe, 1907After my previousvisit, I suggested to Clare that we could both take a day out to look at Teignmouth and Shaldon when it was...
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Very essential and a bit unnecessary
I spotted on the Voices page of yesterday's i newspaper (5 August 2013, #840) a letter that exemplifies a few linguistic phenomena of the more tiresome sort.A Mr Neville Denson of Cumbria wrote in with...
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Ice cold in Shaldon
Google Earth image: right = north. Torquay (left) to Teign estuary (right)As I decided at the end of Teignmouth and Shaldon: revisit, yesterday I walked the 6-mile section of the South West Coast Path...
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Fêtes champêtre at Watcombe
Torquay, The Giant Rock at Watcombe, Francis Bedford, c.1880National Media Museum Collection, Inventory no: 1990-5037_B1_0068copyright-free image reproduced under conditions of The Commons,...
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Wigzell's Spiral Fluted Nails
I just collated a spot of geeky history behind the buildings omnipresent in Topsham river views: the gabled riverside cottage called Wixels (above left), and the building opposite, which is divided...
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An out-take from writing up a walk I did on Monday: I ran into this story in the Universal Magazine.DEVONSHIREShocking catastrophe—The following tale of woe should serve as a caution to parents not to...
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Sidmouth to Beer - 'lite' version - #1
View Donkey Sanctuary to Beer in a larger mapAn opportunity to try out the Google Maps customisation interface (above): I took a day off on Monday for this walk along the East Devon coast between...
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