From Growveg
By Dayna Woolbright
Fortunately crate 20 didn’t contain any witches but it did contain something equally as mysterious.
Crate 20 contained a lot of textile objects, mainly a selection of rugs and carpets but it also revealed another somewhat larger textile item which was folded into a large square. In its folded state we had no clues about what the item could be but from its size we suspected that once unfurled what ever it was would be huge! Due to the limited processing space in the superstore it was a few weeks before we had a chance to fully look at the object and fortunately this opportunity coincided with a visit from staff working in Norfolk Museums and Archaeology’s textile department, Social History curator Cathy Terry and head of conservation Man-Yee Liu.
Man-Yee assessed the textile and concluded it was in a good condition and stable enough to work…
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I wonder how they ended up being named Joe and Susan. Since my WordPress name is JoePyeWeed1 I thought I would show some pictures of Joe Pye Weed that is blooming now. I pinched it back a little oddly in the early summer, which affected the height of “Gateway.”
Joe Pye Weed – “Little Joe.” In the background is echinacea, purple coneflowers.
“Gateway” Joe Pye Weed with pollinating bee. The flower looks messy after the bees have worked over them. The bees love it! These days the bees are also visiting russian sage and agastache blue fortune.
Backing away you can see that “Little Joe” is behind the coneflowers and the “Gateway” is taller in the center. Liatris spicata on the right. The ornamental grass is calamagrostis brachytricha, which does not have seed heads yet.
I bought three black-eyed susan plants from Donna about five years ago. They have distributed themselves around the…
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From the beginning of this project crate 20 has always been known as our ‘textile crate’, as it mostly contains rugs and wall hangings. However, when we actually opened it four weeks ago we were surprised to find a beautifully hand painted and unusual wall hanging which was made from elephant skin.
Painted in a Japanosiery style which became popular in Britain during the 1860’s (see Dayna’s blog ’http://shinealightproject.wordpress.com/2013/05/28/chinoiserie/‘ for more info), the skin features oriental flowers and birds* that are intricately painted in gold, brown, green and yellow.
While a lot of work and care went into its design (making it fascinating to look at), this object highlights the sometimes controversial issue of the display of animal specimens and remains.
While some people may be horrified that an elephant skin was hand painted and then used as a wall hanging, in times gone by animals that had…
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Over the past few months Mark, Peter and Anna and I have been out and about in the villages and parishes in or near the Ouse Washes Landscape area chatting to local residents. We have been asking them to describe how they use the countryside around them, tell us what they know of its heritage and let us know how they value their local landscape.
We are very grateful for the views and opinions of those we spoke to and will be using them to shape the programme going forward. I will post a full report later in the summer but thought you might be interested in some of the ideas people have shared with us and what we have been told around the area.
‘’Everyone knows it is there but not everyone knows what it does’’ Welney resident. We have found this to be true although its existence is…
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Some days you just come across gems that are so utterly unexpected. I wonder how Jason Richardson came up with the idea to attach contact microphones directly to slides, swings and springriders and then get percussive with the metal, composite wood and plastic.
Is Leeton, Australia’s playground symphony a first? I would hazard a guess that Richardson is defining a niche of playful, minimalist music. Reminiscent of Steve Reich, I love the inventiveness, the audacity and the fun.
The work was screened recently in outdoor locations including Leeton’s Mountford Park as part of the town’s centenary celebrations. It will be part of the Burning Seed Festival (Australia’s Burning Man) in October.
If you’re not in Australia, or can’t get there for the show, there’s another excerpt of the video on Playgroundology FB, or you can watch and listen to the full 28 minute video version here.
Can’t…
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So when you were 10, 12, 15, could you be ‘annoying’? Could you be a ‘nuisance’?
I interviewed my grandmother recently about what she did as a young girl.
She is now nearly 90 and has led, I think it’s fair to say, an almost blameless life. Yet as a young girl her and her group of friends would run up to houses, knock on the doors and run away…
Well if the new Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Bill 2013-14 gets passed, behaviour that my grandmother got up to could conceivably land her with a criminal record.
I’m no expert on this sort of issue – I’m an ex-teacher, done some community development, and spent the last five years promoting and leading programmes and campaigning to get kids more freedom to play. But my colleagues at the Standing Commitee on Youth Justice are. As are the Association of Chief…
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