Carr’s Herefordshire, with extras….
This is JL Carr’s map of Herefordshire (taken in a winter window, so there’s a bit of glare.) Readers of this blog will remember the post earlier this year, where I wrote about solving...
Books / England / Marches / Name Dropping / Personal / Presteigne / Psycho geography / Radnorshire / Travellers / Wales / Writing
by Ian Marchant · Published January 3, 2016 · Last modified June 18, 2019
This is JL Carr’s map of Herefordshire (taken in a winter window, so there’s a bit of glare.) Readers of this blog will remember the post earlier this year, where I wrote about solving...
Name Dropping / Night / Personal / Philosophy / Politics / Your Dad
by Ian Marchant · Published September 6, 2015 · Last modified June 19, 2019
Yesterday, Saturday 5th of September, we buried my dear old friend and partner in crime, Christopher Charles Ambler, known to the world as Chas. We buried him in a remarkable ceremony at a remarkable...
Antiquarian / Books / Church in Wales / Disestablishment / Drink / England / Fiction / Hypochondria / Marches / Name Dropping / Night / Philosophy / Politics / Psycho geography / Radnorshire / Spume / Sussex
by Ian Marchant · Published October 12, 2013 · Last modified June 23, 2019
Spume has just sent me this photo of His Imperial Majesty Haille Selassie visiting Botolph St Otto in 1939. Spume is on the far right, aged 16...
My hair shaven short, by design, though shaped by cruel circumstance. One of two pairs of bespoke Anglo-American spectacles, each identical in shape, but different in colour; a black frame for distance, and a...
Books / Name Dropping / Psycho geography / Pub quiz / Traditions / University / Writing
by Ian Marchant · Published February 18, 2012
On Wednesday evening I did a talk with Richard Beard under the auspices of the National Academy of Writing at Pembroke College, Cambridge, England, Yurp. The college were kind enough to invite my wife...
Still looking to get a message to Kate Bush. Found my grandfather Albert Bulbeck though, a story which deserves a post of its own. Which will follow. When I’ve found a way to communicate...
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