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Flowers in my Garden

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26/04/2013

Song by Johnny Flynn from the soundtrack he made for the 2011 film “Bag of Hammers”. Paintings by Beverly A. Mitchell. The soundtrack was only released for one day on LP in a few stores!
Here’s the lyrics as deciphered by plenixfyre. (any better lyrics anyone?)

‘Flowers in my garden
birds in all the trees
this is where I’m rooted
still I’ve got to leave
yes I must be cut now
and yes I’ve got to go far

for bread and wine
nautic stover mead(?)
and sainted wing
in every key

jumping and changing
roman girl
lopping, laughing
cockney proud

I’m in the small things with the loom
and you can’t give me any new
except the small things you give me
to beat around you when you listen

and it could be with Juliet
but we’re on this long troddener
and we might be familiar
were it not for them that day last time

and were it not a separation
brought in by an in-congregation

the eyes were given, give a sigh
of one another in the lye
and in the doorway of a dark cafe
and just before I fall asleep
and dream of you
and wake to find you in another day’

Old School Gardener

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Join our Team: Summer Placements with Ouse Washes scheme

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18/04/2013

HowardJones's avatarOuse Washes: The Heart of the Fens

Heritage Lottery FundCambridgeshire ACRE is looking for volunteers who would like work experience as a summer placement, to assist with the development of the Ouse Washes Landscape Partnership Scheme.

Are you looking to forge a career in environmental, community, landscape or heritage management? Look no further – a summer placement will give valuable experience and will give you that head start when it comes to applying for jobs in the sector.

Would you be successful, you will be working with a small team of experienced Cambridgeshire ACRE staff and will benefit from on-the-job mentoring across a number of different elements of the Ouse Washes Landscape Partnership scheme. There will be fieldwork including interviewing members of the public about their visitor experiences, as well as desk-based work to record data and to write up consultation findings. You will be actively involved with a wide partnership which includes national conservation organisations such as the RSPB and…

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Carl Linnaeus, the Man of Many Names

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16/04/2013

Aly B's avatarAly Baumgartner

The history of science is full of interesting characters, and Carl Linnaeus certainly fits the bill. Known as the father of modern taxonomy, he was born in Sweden on May 23rd, 1707. He was only the second generation of the name Linnaeus. In fact, when his father enrolled in school he was required to take a family name (instead of using the patronymic name Ingemarsson) and he chose Linnaeus after a giant linden tree that grew on his family homestead. With a name like that, Carl seemed to be destined for biological greatness.

Linnaeus showed an interest in botany from a very young age. His father, an amateur botanist, encouraged his son’s enthusiasm. When he enrolled at the Lund University in 1727, he knew that botany was a very serious subject. He registered under the name ‘Carolus Linnæus’, the latinized form of his name. He later would use this form…

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An Oscar Winner?

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15/04/2013


‘The pargetting at 25-27 Church Street, Saffron Walden (below and featured in my recent post ‘Milling, Mazes and Millionaire Shortbread’), has just been shortlisted for the prestigious Museum + Heritage awards in the restoration and conservation category, the conservation equivalent of an Oscar according to owner, Douglas Kent.

Church St

The work involved the exterior pargetting, especially of two huge figures which, legend says, were the giants, Gog and Magog. Kent, however, has discovered that they were more likely to be taken from a novel by the 17th century owner and author, William Winstanley. ‘I knew they were in a parlous state but when we looked closely there were doubts they could be saved.’ New techniques and £30,000 have stabilised them – very important as the two figures are perhaps the most memorable feature of the town. Kent, who had no grants towards the work, has decided to paint them in a creamy off-white though they were probably buff coloured originally. He has also decided on three extra ‘Invitation to View’ opening days, Wednesday, June 26 at 2.30 pm; Thursday, August 1 at 11 am and Wednesday, September 4 also at 11 am. The winner of the award will be decided on May 1.’

Source: ‘Invitation to View’ Newsletter, April 2013

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Some of my favourite things by Dayna Woolbright

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by Dayna Woolbright

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Bright copper kettles and warm woollen mittens
Brown paper packages tied up with strings
These are a few of my favourite things…

I do love kittens but one of my favourite things that I have come across since working on the Shine a Light project is a Church Rood screen from St Gregory’s chapel in Norwich. St Gregory’s is located in the centre of Norwich on the historic Pottergate Street.

The Church is now open to the public but during a period of redundancy some of the important historical artefacts have been removed and loaned to the Norfolk Museums and Archaeology service, where they benefit from the care of trained conservators. Other than the screen NMAS also possess a brass lectern in the shape of an eagle, a 14th century door knocker in the form of a lion’s head…

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Bandung to Bali XIV – the Myer Emporium outfit – 9 April 1973

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09/04/2013

Chas Spain's avatarChas Spain

Mum says we all have to have new outfits to go on the plane to Indonesia.

This is not good. I don’t like shopping and trying on clothes.

Mum takes me to Myer’s* for a special day out. A cold wind sends leaves in little flurries down Bourke St. The city is full of cars and trams and people crowded onto the lunchtime footpaths.

‘First things first!’ Mum smiles at me and manoeuvres the pusher expertly on the escalator.

We stop for lunch at the cafeteria. I have my most favourite lunch – ham and pineapple toasted sandwich and a chocolate milkshake. Mum has some cottage cheese on rye bread and a pot of tea.

‘Next stop lingerie,’ she announces.

We go back up the escalator and I sit outside with Bart while mum tries on different bras and things in the fitting room. Bart is in a happy mood and chuckles…

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Discovery

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08/04/2013

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It was late afternoon when I decided to take a walk down the Little Miami Bike Trail a few miles from my house.  I hadn’t been this way before.  It was to be a new adventure for me.  The sun was sleepy, lazily hanging low.  The colorful quilt of the sky was slowly covering the heavens in preparation for a nice spring evening.

I veered off the paved portion of the trail and found myself near the Little Miami River.  The water was low and I could walk across a few rocks to a small island where only trees and rocks lived.  It was a beautiful spot and for that moment in time, it was mine.  I could hear woodpeckers busy working, owls crying out “who”, and other various birds enjoying an evening chat.  I sat down on some rocks listening to the nature symphony, taking in the beauty of…

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Tulip mania and Bitcoin

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06/04/2013

Tamara Jare's avatarMy Botanical Garden

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Our dinner today  was an educative event, kids were teaching parents and grandparents about bitcoin, an interesting phenomena of the internet era. Things went pretty bad for us, older ones, it almost looked like we were complete idiots not understanding basic new concepts of virtual world. I said almost, for then I’ve remembered tulip mania.Some concepts were known already far ago, it would be shame to forget them, just in case…….which of course does not mean I do not believe in bitcoin…or tulips!

At the peak of tulip mania, in February 1637, some single tulip bulbs sold for more than 10 times the annual income of a skilled craftsman. It is generally considered the first recorded speculative bubble (or economic bubble),[3] although some researchers have noted that theKipper- und Wipperzeit episode in 1619–22, a Europe-wide chain of debasement of the metal content of coins to fund warfare…

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Paper flowers-an old craft

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04/04/2013

Tamara Jare's avatarMy Botanical Garden

 

 
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Dieffenbachia, window and Wienna

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29/03/2013

Tamara Jare's avatarMy Botanical Garden

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Dieffenbachia was the plant growing to in-believable size in the window of a restaurant in the middle of the town .Bus had a stop just in front of that window and I remember my childhood fascination seeing this plant each time again on my bus ride.I believed it had to be very difficult to grow such a big , old plant , filling the whole window with white green leaves each turning toward light from the street. Usually there were no lights turned on in the restaurant, the darkness of unknown inside was shadowing the vivid patterns of the only evident thing to be alive behind that window.Many years later I had a dinner in the same restaurant and could not believe the plant was still there, strong and green as from yesterday, but from this side of the window almost obvious and earthly, far less mysterious as it looked from my bus view.Yet it…

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