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Tag Archives: Calke Abbey
Scallywag and the gothic novel
Creative journeys are strange things. They have huge twists and turns that aren’t planned, well that is how it seems to me but it may be that I am doing things all wrong. So yesterday I was feeling quite … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Photography
Tagged Calke Abbey, Heathcliff, iphone, Oil Pastels, photography, Shakespeare, Wuthering Heights
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Revisiting old friends
Whilst waiting for an old friend to join in a cafe this morning I visited another old friend – KitCam (which according to the internet is several updates out of date – a bit like me I guess). … Continue reading
Posted in Photography
Tagged Bodleian Library, Calke Abbey, iphoneography, Kitcam, National Trust, oxford, Oxford University, Packwood House, trees, Yew Trees
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Project LV One – Day 347 – Camera on Calke
Today I visited one of my favourite places in the whole wide world (just a touch of hyperbole I know but who cares?) – Calke Abbey. I was told a story many years ago that one of my less than … Continue reading
Posted in Project LV One
Tagged Calke Abbey, Calke on Camera, Cowslip, Cute, Flower, Lamb, landscape, National Trust, photographic exhibition, photography, Project LV One, sheep
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Project LV One – Day 130 – Clara
Curse this virus infection! A couple of weeks ago I had a week of feeling pretty rough and I thought I was over things. Well today I feel lifeless – not ill just in need of a good kick up … Continue reading
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Tagged Calke Abbey, Clara Oswin Oswald, Dr Who, drawing, Flowers, portrait, Project LV One, sketch, virus infection, woman
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Project LV One – Day 129 – Another in the occasional series – Walks through National Trust lands
Another wonderful early autumn Sunday, another wonderful day for walking around another gem of the National Trust properties – Calke Abbey. This property has had a direct and indirect influence on my family for generations. Back in the day … Continue reading
A new Idea
I went for a rather agreeable lunch today at my favourite National Trust property, Calke Abbey. As I was doing this a germ of an idea for a new project was planted in my brain ‘…How about making a … Continue reading
Walk in the country
A lovely day, sun shining what better ways to spend the day than a walk in the countryside in this case through the Bluebells at Calke Abbey. Better than working for a living that is for sure. Simon Marchini Web: … Continue reading
Calke Abbey – Part 2
This is the final images from this afternoons walk around Calke Abbey. Simon Marchini Web: http://WWW.simonmarchini.co.uk
