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I don’t know about you but I have never been away somewhere before where it was possible to experience daylight 24 hours a day. It still blows my mind that if you fly to the Faroe Islands from London in the summer it takes just two hours and you can do exactly that. It also means you wont sleep for a week because you will be lying in bed saying
I have always had a thing for windows. And doors. Oh and rooftops and chimneys And for bicycles leaning against railings. But mostly for windows. A window, with its sturdy wooden frame weathered by time, can stand as a testament to the many eyes that have gazed through it, pondering the mysteries of the world beyond. A world that can look quite unremarkable and yet with the addition of the
I know we can’t visit National Trust properties at the moment but we went to Basildon Park a few months ago so I have finally got around to sharing the photos for Window Wednesday in the hope you can add it to your list of places to go when we are able to travel again Basildon Park is one of the most modern properties we have visited because although it
Rainbows and children’s art in windows and on pavements Window Wednesday has been paused of late because we haven’t done an awful lot that has offered me the opportunity to post a photo of a window (and if you are new to Window Wednesday here is a little more about it) I am not sure where the idea came from but as the lockdown came into force children all over
The Pig in Brockenhurst is just one of the Pig hotels on the south Coast and is the focus of Window Wednesday this week. Other Pigs can be found in Southampton, Studland, the Mendip Hills, Devon, Kent and Cornwall but it was the one in the New Forest that Annie and I plumped for when we wanted somewhere for lunch this week. The setting couldn’t have been more perfect, easily accessible
A very special bungalow features on Window Wednesday today. It was early in the year when we saw the bungalow for the first time on Rightmove. Despite it being slightly over budget the estate agent had assured us that it ticked all the boxes we had set and the vendors may be open to an offer since we were keen to move fast and it had been on
Jousselin, a stunning nine bedroom house in the French Countryside features on Window Wednesday today. I have always had a thing about windows, about the view through them that gets perfectly framed by the frame itself, or by stained glass and the stories they can tell. To me they perfectly encapsulate a moment, a view, a feeling and when I look at the photo afterwards I can be instantly transported
This is waffling but I have just been to an Elevate event and I am feeling a bit philosophical. You know I love a window, right? So much so that I did a whole load of blog posts called Window Wednesday because I wanted to share my love of windows. How they frame a picture beyond. Allow you to be drawn to them whilst in the room. Or just blow
Window Wednesday used to be a pretty regular thing around these parts. And then it drifted off which always made me a bit sad if I am honest. So with a new vision and determination to write regularly I am bringing it back as often as I can, starting with the Tarn Centre in Cumbria. If you don’t know, I love windows. And doors. I love photographing doors, and I
Window Wednesday this week feature the Wiltshire Window Having ventured out in Betty the Bus to Devises , just an hour and half a way it was a relatively easy drive, even in the pitch black in a beast of a vehicle that Mr B had never driven before. We didn’t manage to see Stonehenge on the way past as it was dark, but we did manage to get a
Window Wednesday this week is from Hillier Gardens The weather hasn’t really been conducive to photographing buildings and that small matter of Christmas has also begun to get in the way. Today though was different. And although the trip was brief it was great to get out with a camera and to meet up with Annie for breakfast. Hillier Gardens is only down the road, in a part of Hampshire
Despite being members of the National Trust for about twenty years we had no idea they owned Brownsea Island, just off Poole in Dorset. We also didn’t know that you could get the ferry over to visit for the day. Or an hour Which is all the time we could spend there recently. Because we didn’t know you could get the ferry there until 3.58pm, as we walked past the