Author: Andy Small
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Churchyard III
St Margaret of Antioch stands in Linstead Parva by a tributary of the Blyth. The land rises to Nunn’s Hill and the low church sits behind its double gate and lantern.
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Churchyard II
As the road bends sharply in Sotherton, across a field, I watched a deserted barn slowly collapsing during the years I drove to Great Yarmouth.
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Churchyard
Tremendous storm gathered above the road to Bungay. I slowed, turned off headlights, arms folded across the wheel, head pressed to the windscreen as a vast ocean of clouds swayed above.
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Hedgerow
Today I am too cold to imagine those Christian Normans trudging through Suffolk fields, or German airmen looking down on their targets at Kirton and Martlesham.
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East Coast II
Some evenings in Southwold are misty. Even in July. Between the Adnams’ offices, a Wesleyan chapel, and the high wall of the brewery. Behind the cannon and benches looking out to sea. In front of a sweetshop which has been there ever since I was a boy. Past low cottages and low…
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East Coast
The coastline of East Anglia is beguiling in its unique light, its landscape, and in the towns along its shores. I return time and time again to where Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk meet the sea. Essex from its broad sweep of sky and sea off Harwich to the creeks which…
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A short blog about cemeteries.
I am drawn towards cemeteries. Even in winter, through long wet grass or on slippery stone paths. Drawn out of the natural world, they are places for me which are both profound and simple. No longer unusual, not quite natural. The white heads of daisies are like the rounds of…
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Celestial Inhabitants
Felpham is described in Wikipedia as “…a village and civil parish in the Arun District of West Sussex, England. Although sometimes considered part of the urban area of greater Bognor Regis, it is a village and civil parish in its own right, having an area of 4.26 km² with a…
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My first blog
I have always been interested in images. When I was younger, someone bought me The Observer’s Book of Painting and Graphic Art. It was part of a series including titles like The Observer’s Book of British Birds or The Observer’s Book of the Sea Shore.
Andy Small 