Come away with the raggle taggle gypsy-o
The Bedford Hotel in Sidmouth is one of the venues that hosts folk festival events. After a walk around town watching dancers https://lucidgypsy.wordpress.com/2013/08/09/sidmouth-folk-festival-a-bit-of-a-dance/ , some lovely food and enjoying the sea I popped into the bar for a drink and a chance to listen to some music. It was a real buzzy evening with traditional folk music and some great characters to watch.
I’m determined to go to more events at Sidmouth next year!
Ailsa has chosen architecture as her theme this week so I’m showing you the mosque at Larabanga, Northern Ghana. It’s said to be 500 years old and the oldest mosque in Africa. I’ve always wanted to see the mosque at Djenne in Mali, supposedly the biggest mud and stick mosque but that will probably never happen, so even on a rainy day I was thrilled to see this one. Of course non-Muslims were not permitted to go inside.
There is a legend about an Islamic trader who discovered the nearby mystic stone
and decided to sleep wherever his spear landed. He dreamt of building a mosque on that very spot and in the morning woke to find the foundations had mysteriously been laid during the night. He saw this as a sign, completed the building and now lies buried under the baobab tree beside the mosque.
What do you think? was the trader the architect?
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The Meon Valley trail wends its way through around thirty miles of Hampshire countryside on a disused railway branch line that ran from Alton to Knowle until Mr Beeching closed it down in the 1960’s. It’s now a lovely walk used as a footpath, cycle and bridle path. On Sunday my daughter and I walked for an hour giving baby Scarlett some fresh air.
There is an abundance of flora and fauna, we saw
a privet hawk moth which grows to 85mm and had a vicious looking horn on its rear end.
a Harlequin ladybird, an invasive variety that is a predator to our native ones
and a common frog.
The walk was lovely, come along with me.
Enjoy a ride
Pick some nuts
and plan your next walk
I hope you enjoyed it!
I took these just two nights ago at Sidmouth and I think they work!
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For one week every year at the beginning of August the town of Sidmouth burst into life and at the seams with visitors to the folk festival. There is music, dance, theatre and story telling in venues big and small all over the town. Market traders line the seafront and everywhere is a riot of colour. Here are a few of the photos I took last night.
Another good reason for you to come to Devon!
The second of my Dartmoor lazies.
Bennett’s Cross
Boundary marker
ancient wayside granite cross
standing defiant
My lovelies you deserve an answer about my texture photo earlier today, so here it is – a Clematis Tangutica in flower,
and seed head!
Much loved by bees and Gees.
Sonel tells us that texture is,
1. The characteristic physical structure given to a material, an object, etc., by the size, shape, and arrangement of its parts: soil of a sandy texture.
2. (Clothing, Personal Arts & Crafts / Textiles) : The characteristic structure of the threads, fibers, etc., that make up a textile fabric: coarse texture.
3. Essential or characteristic quality; essence : the texture of a cake.
4. The distinctive character or quality of something : the texture of life in the world.
5. The nature of a surface other than smooth woollen cloth has plenty of texture.
6. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Terms) Art : the representation of the nature of a surface the painter caught the grainy texture of the sand.
7. (Music, other) : the quality given, as to a musical work, by the combination or interrelation of parts or elements.
The photo I’ve chosen amused me because it looks a bit like a coiffured dog, can you see what I mean? Or do you think I’ve completely lost the plot?
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