Bremenium
Thought I’d celebrate being 75 last week by taking a walk at a place often driven past while heading over the border via Carter Bar. We started at ‘The Last Café in England’, something of a local institution, on the A68 in Rochester village. Coffees with a bacon butty, made deli style with focaccia bread,…
Saving Public Telephony
I got a call this week from a stranger in a phone box on the Isle of Lewis. Well, not a stranger so much as a fellow arts worker I’d never met. Although in many ways I feel I do know him, having worked happily with his archetype before. Let’s just say we’re fellow travellers…
Marchmont
A while back we were in the audience for a talk at Newcastle Central library, part of a nationwide book launch, given by the academic, multi-award winning writer and broadcaster Dr James Fox. (https://www.drjamesfox.co.uk/) James had been all over the UK unearthing the vital if under appreciated role of craft makers in forging our country’s…
Meadows And Mortality
Regular readers of these occasional notes will know I’ve been gradually forming and managing a meadow area in our country garden since I came to live at the Corner house nine years ago.. The tough grasses have been weakened through autumn seeding of yellow rattle, with various meadow flower mixes to follow. Before seeding I…
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STEPHEN TOMLIN 