The Stour valley is ‘Constable Country’. His wonderful pictures of this place, especially this ‘Hay Wain‘ painting, have become ‘part of the landscape of every English mind’.
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Chronicles of the Countryside
Ronald Blythe was a creative writer with a simple life-style, born and bred in Suffolk, the voice of a vanishing past in these shires of old England. I pay my own tribute to this chronicler of a slower, more gentle way of life who died this year aged 100.
Continue reading “Chronicles of the Countryside”Is This the Song of Spring?
After a very cold night we wake to a crisp winter morning of frosted grass with the bright sun rising over the house tops. This is ‘day’s most sacred hour‘, full of the ‘innocence of a new born day‘.
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John Clare, always a champion of the underprivileged, introduces us to the gypsy culture of his day and gives us a chance to hear a sample of traditional gypsy music.
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A Listening Heart 