Dungeness
Prospect Cottage and garden, Dungeness, by Derek Jarman (1942-1994)
My walk around the cottages, shacks and industrial relics on the shingle beach which create the ambience of this apparently remote corner of Kent.
Samson crossing Denge Beach, Dungeness
The Wild West in Kent - Samson hauling a pssenger train at Denge Beach, Dungeness - Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch light railway (RH&DR) - but see my following photos when the train is close and the illusion is broken.
Faversham to Deal: Kent roadtrip
Oare Creek, Faversham
Faversham Brewery
Faversham is one of the Cinque Ports I’ve heard about but never before visited. It’s famous for the Shepherd Neame brewery, the umbrella factory and the abbey but infamous for its pirates. I could have lingered in Faversham but my schedule needed me to move on. Next, I drove across Graveney Marshes to Seasalter, then Sandwich and Deal on my roadtrip round the Kent coast.
Last Night of the Proms 1975
An object that looks as mundane as a reel of recording tape can be the carrier for many rich and varied emotions
I decided not to listen live to this evening’s rather faux Last Night of the Proms 2020; rather, I chose to take the opportunity to take care transcribing a 2400 foot reel of quarter-inch Ampex 351 Double Play tape on my shelf which I had labelled No 49, “1975 Last Night of the Proms”.
Cormac Rigby introduced the 81st Last Night for BBC Radio 3 whilst “my colleague Richard Baker, the bravest man in the western hemisphere at the moment”, talked with the Promenaders and introduced the programme for BBC1 television. It was a warm evening and I know from my own experience as a promenader that the arena gets even hotter when the lights are on for television. Colour television in 1975 required far far more light than current television cameras so it must have been really hot and sweaty indeed. The ladies of the BBC Singers were, for the first time, dressed in colours, not black. Cormac Rigby describes the two Promenaders who laid a wreath around the bust of Henry Wood as dressed topped in white pith helmets and that they saluted Sir Henry’s bust afterwards in a sharply military fashion.
Westminster
This is what we find: familiar views but of Westminster as it is in September 2020: few tourists, scaffolding everywhere but still the buses all come along together even though they are almost empty.
Blackcap (206 m.) - South Downs National Park
South Downs National Park: hike to Blackcap (206 m.) from Falmer, near Brighton
Col de l’Iseran: 2770 m. Alps rideout August 2020 - 2
Col du Lautaret (2057 m.)
Col du Galibier (2642 m.)
Ride to the Alps day 2: aiming for the Col de l’Iseran, at 2770 m. it’s said to be highest paved road pass in Europe.
2004 Saint Julien - Grand vin de Bordeaux
Enjoying roast pheasant with this Grand vin de Bordeaux (Saint Julien AOC, Médoc). Here are my tasting notes.
