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The Most Recent Post 8 Aug 2013 | 04:37 pm
Conygar Tower - folly ruins with QR code poetry beneath arch. It takes ages to finally get to the point where a project is complete, and here I am, the last of the QR code poetry is installed in the ...
. . relish the rain and sun in equal measure 31 Jul 2013 | 02:26 pm
In a shady valley not far from here, where the river slides over cool rocks beneath muscular Oaks, the Last Queen visited once. A small courtage followed and everyone barefoot (by decree) till th...
The Story Box Story So Far . . . 20 Jul 2013 | 05:46 pm
Story box book at Watery Lane, Nether Stowey. Nether Stowey, Watery Lane, the first proper stretch of the Coleridge Way, where you leave the tarmac and traffic behind, this is the first act in a 36 ...
two men went to mow, went to mow a meadow, two men, one man, and his dog, spot, a sausage roll and a bottle of pop, went to mow a meadow. 5 Jul 2013 | 05:59 pm
After two of the artist's walks at Westcott farm earlier this year, there came a point in the proceedings where I knew I would have to 'do something' and what could be more fun than cutting an old sty...
Go straight to Gaol, do not pass go . . 24 Jun 2013 | 08:29 pm
Nether Stowey Town Gaol, the plaque can just be seen on the wall inside. Last week I installed this laser etched slate in Nether Stowey town Gaol, (with full permission I will add) The local school i...
Fly Catchers and my journey into the vaults of the British Library to see Coleridge's Journals 28 May 2013 | 01:00 am
The Grand Gates to the British Library with mammoth sculpture of Sir Isaac Newton. Thursday felt like a long time coming, the appointment to see the manuscripts of S T Coleridge with Rachel Foss of t...
Let it rain 1 May 2013 | 03:49 pm
Mrs Mash with her harvested words from the children, but written on the wooden board as the paper got so soggy in the rain. I've been desperate to write about this day just before Easter, a day who's...
To the Gibbet! 18 Apr 2013 | 07:53 pm
I'll see you at Walfords Gibbet at 9.00 then? Who could possible have an office out on the fringes of the the Quantocks, beneath twisted scrub Oak and wheeling honey Buzzards? Well Owen Jones of cour...
You have to walk the walk. 26 Mar 2013 | 04:42 pm
Yesterday I braved ice and snow and stepped out in Nether Stowey, which is the beginning of The Coleridge Way, and it is kind of long over due as tomorrow I am working with Nether Stowey school and sh...
The Fine Poets of Conygar Tower 13 Mar 2013 | 06:30 pm
When you say it was a cold day, do you mean, 30 mph winds, and snow in the air?! Well that's what they braved, the young poets of Dunster First, out there word harvesting despite the icy chill and ris...
