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This book was recommended to me by a passer by on the train. He saw me reading Stephen King’s The Gunslinger. It took a while but I’m so glad I took up the recommendation.
The Passage is a fantastic story, masterfully told. After Hideo Yokoyama’s Six Four, it’s a change in genre but both excellent long reads by great writers.
Throughout the summer months, at a farm in Hill Deverill, Wiltshire people give up their time to create Cream Teas (and bake cakes and savouries) to raise money for Save the Children. Hill Deverill Farm is a beautiful setting, with a barn for the teas and gardens to explore or sit out in when the weather’s fine.
The following images show the beautiful setting for the day
Photographs of worn stone sea wall at Watchet. They bear the appearance of Beehive honey comb.
Moving in close to the subject really picks up the textured detail of the sea worn wall.
The two pictures above were taken with Fujifilm X100F on ACROS emulation – out of camera jpegs.
Just finished reading SIX FOUR by Hideo Yokoyama – a police procedural crime novel set in Japan. A slow burn masterpiece. Outstanding! I will unreservedly recommend this book to anyone. It is one of the best novels I have ever read – I place it in my Top 5.
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge written in 1797-98.
Coleridge lived in Nether Stowey and it was whilst here that he visited Watchet. It was the harbour at Watchet that provided the inspiration to write The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. His longest work.
The above statue commemorates Coleridge and his magnificent poem.
The poem can be found in its entirety here
At Watchet Harbour, West Somerset, UK. An old historical port, active since the 1500’s. It is famous for the inspiration of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, written in 1797.
A bright sunny day, photographs taken with X100F as out of camera jpegs.
In the depths of Wiltshire, just off the A350 that carries on down to Poole, outside the little village of Longbridge Deverill is small, unassuming Farm Shop that hides a vineyard.
Lychgate roof at St Peter and St Paul church in Longbridge Deverill, Wiltshire.
Lychgates are roofs over gates, used fore sheltering coffins in the rain, awaiting the arrival of the clergyman.
One of the first photographs taken with my new Fujifilm X100F.
Walking through Foxholes on the way to The Bath Arms in Crockerton. It was early evening, cool, an occluded sky hung ominously and a forest of fern had grown up since I last blinked.
After days of rain, a beautiful day’s sunshine in the Wiltshire countryside. The wheat has ripened and the clouds filled a perfect blue sky.