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St Michael, Woolverstone, Suffolk
It was one of those occasional hot, muggy days in the summer of 2017, and I had take a friend to see Woolverstone church. Despite a number of visits in the past, I had only stepped inside the church for the first time myself some eight months previously, on a crisp, bright morning towards the end of the previous November. It had been a perfect day for a bike ride. I'd had my eye on the weather forecast all week, and first fog and then cloud had been predicted, but Saturday dawned to a crystal clear blue sky. I headed out of town onto the Shotley Peninsula, the first stretch of my journey necessarily along the horrid main road which runs along the south bank of the Orwell. I soon came to Woolverstone, which you can see at once was rebuilt as a late 19th Century estate village. A narrow lane runs between fields and copses northwards to the church of St Michael sitting on its mound above the river.
The setting is idyllic. The great pile of Woolverstone Hall, today home to Ipswich Girls High School, stands beside it, and above me the jackdaws chattered in the skeletal trees, the fields were full of sheep, the damp woods full of the cries of pheasants. Woolverstone Hall was built in the 1770s by John Johnson for William Berners. Johnson had been the main architect of the Berners Estate, an area of London known more commonly today as Fitzrovia, and the fabulously wealthy Berners family took up residence in this remote Suffolk spot above the Orwell. They paid for George Gilbert Scott's restoration of the 1860s, which is pretty much all that can be seen of the church from the south apart from the tower, but in the 1880s they did rather more.
James Piers St Aubyn, one of the most famous architects of the day, was brought in to expand the church massively towards the north, and when you enter you see that the effect is really that of two churches side by side, separated by a fairly low and rounded arcade. The new part was designed to be used for shadowy, incense-led worship, and although that tradition has long gone it is still the main part of the church today.
The wealth of the Berners family means that the restoration was overwhelming, but the quality of it is high. And in any case, there are few medieval survivals anywhere on the Shotley Peninsula. The only old object here is the font, and it is a curiosity. On the face of it, the style is that of a typical East Anglian font bowl, lions alternating with angels, but the carving is quite unlike anything I've seen elsewhere, the crouching lions shown in profile. Pevsner calls the carving 'crude', which is not untrue. Was it done by a local hand, perhaps? It has been reset on a modern stem with upright, alert little lions, 19th Century but much more in the East Anglian medieval style.
The glass is also generally of high quality, or at least expensive, and to various members of the Berners family. Heaton Butler & Bayne's rather alarmingly yellow Saints Martin, Agnes, Margaret and Augustine, installed as a memorial to Archdeacon Henry Berners and his wife, stand proudly in an overwhelmingly wide south nave window which works externally as a kind of optical illusion, making Scott's nave appear wider than his chancel, which it isn't.
The same firm provided the east window in St Aubyn's north aisle to John and Henrietta Berners, which depicts the crucifixion flanked by Joseph of Arimathea, the Blessed Virgin, St John and St Mary Magdalene. It is interesting to note, given the not uncommon conflation of their imagery in medieval times, the similarity between the figures of St John and St Mary Magdalene. The studio might almost have been working from the same cartoon. Both the windows were installed in the 1880s under St Aubyn's direction.
There was once an earlier 19th Century window at Gilbert Scott's east end, of which the upper tracery survives, but the main lights were destroyed by blast damage during the Second World War, a not uncommon fate for church windows on the Shotley Peninsula - indeed, the church in the neighbouring village, Chelmondiston, was completely ruined. The 1947 replacement, by AL Wilkinson, depicts Christ the Saviour of the World flanked by St Michael and St Gabriel.
The High Church, even Anglo-catholic, enthusiasms of the Berners family may be judged by Woolverstone House back in the village, which was built for a community of Anglican nuns based at St Peter, Kilburn. It was intended as their retreat house and school, and the architect was Edwin Lutyens. Today it is a private house, but the church is now open every day. When I'd first visited every Suffolk church in the late 1990s I had found it locked. Coming back in 2006, the interior was full of scaffolding, and I couldn't go in. Curiously, the avenue of yew trees which lined the path up to the south porch at that time have now been reduced to stumps. Despite St Michael being barely five miles from my house, it had taken until this idyllic crisp, sunny day in late November 2016 for me to get back there, discover this, and explore the inside for the first time.
It was time to head on to Harkstead. The view from the south porch back up the hilly lane was breathtaking in the low winter sunshine. I stepped out, wandering down to the east to look across to the Hall.
The Berners family sold it as part of the Estate in 1937, assuming that it would be demolished for farming land, but after a period of requisition by the army during the War the Hall was bought by the London County Council for use as a boarding school. It was intended both for children taken into care and also for those whose parents were working overseas, an odd combination, but people seem to have happy memories of it. The writer Ian McEwan is a famous ex-pupil. The school closed in the 1980s; its massive library was broken up, and you still regularly come across items from it in Suffolk's second-hand bookshops. In a grand sale in the Ipswich Corn Exchange shortly after the closure, I bought the school's copies of McEwan's books for 50p each. The Hall lay empty for several years, until the Girls High School moved out here from central Ipswich, and restored it to something like its former glory. The jackdaws which inhabit the great 19th Century water tower, which stands beside it, wheeled above my head as I cycled back to the Shotley road.
The rains began in April, and continue in May with flood warnings for North Texas. This photo was taken just before more rain which resulted in severe flooding locally.
Area Fitzroy, one of an abstract art series of the 31 Shipping Forecast areas which I created with the ArtRage program.
But not a better day tomorrow...more of the same sub par conditions. :0)
Temps continue to trend below historic average values with the odd spike such as today's being the exception...throw history out the window where predictability is concerned from here forward.
High winds have stolen much of any warming values the sun is offering but at least we have that much!
by Clémence de La Tour du Pin, Peggy Pehl, Hayley Silverman, Emily Shinada, Olivia Erlanger & Cosima zu Knyphausen
design by Pia Christmann
curated by Hendrik Niefeld
Leipzig
October 2013
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Forecast se suma a la oferta de moda del Centro Comercial L'Aljub con la inauguración de una nueva tienda. Más info en cclaljub.com/directorio/forecast
(Source: www.america2050.org/ )
Between now and 2050 - 40 years - America's population is expected to grow by about 95 million people (305 million to 400 million).
Most new Americans will be born in (or immigrate to) existing metropolitan areas; but those areas themselves will grow.
Two examples:
Look at "Southern California". The assumption is that transport options along the existing I-15 corridor will be strengthened and that the megalopolis will stretch across the desert and connect to Las Vegas.
Also: The Front Range. Right now it starts on the north end in Cheyenne and ends - with some gaps - in Pueblo CO. By 2050 those gaps will be filled in and the megalopolis itself will stretch another 330-odd miles south to Albuquerque. Once again, the strengthening of transport options along the route of I-25 is assumed.
Also look at the "Areas of Influence". That for the Front Range includes most of Utah and almost touches Las Vegas. The one for Cascadia reaches east and includes Boise.
My native Black Hills - on the map anyway - retains some "independence" but Rapid City identifies strongly w/Denver now and I doubt that will change. When I was a kid Rapid had about 45,000 people; now it's 80,000 (!). In another 40 years, who knows?
Your thoughts?
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Name:Stena Forecaster
IMO:9214678
Flag:Sweden
MMSI:266040000
Callsign:SCKZ
Vessel type:Ro-ro Cargo
Gross tonnage:24,688 tons
Summer DWT:12,300 tons
Home port:Gothenburg
Class society:Det Norske Veritas
Build year:2003
Builder: DALIAN SHIPYARD - DALIAN, CHINA
© All rights are reserved, please do not use my photos without my permission
Name:Stena Forecaster
IMO:9214678
Flag:Sweden
MMSI:266040000
Callsign:SCKZ
Vessel type:Ro-ro Cargo
Gross tonnage:24,688 tons
Summer DWT:12,300 tons
Home port:Gothenburg
Class society:Det Norske Veritas
Build year:2003
Builder: DALIAN SHIPYARD - DALIAN, CHINA
I'm trying! "Be patient. Don't get upset if things don't progress as far as you wanted them to. Overview: Someone you work closely with most days needs help with something cosmetic. It might literally have to do with their appearance, or it may be related to the way they arrange the pieces of their life. Hmmm, I wonder what this is all about. Might be able to pinpoint someone but not work related. Oh well.
Reflecting an ongoing trend toward masculine colors, the deep gray of charcoal carries forward from Brentano's 2014 color forecast. The dramatic neutral pairs beautifully with other colors to add rich depth to traditional and contemporary spaces.
[...] Forecasting future events is often like searching for a black cat in an unlit room, that may not even be there [...]
-- Quote by Steve Davidson
Nikon D200, Tokina 28-70 f/2.8, 28mm - f/16 - 1/250s - Flash Metz CT-3
Petrella Salto, Italy (November, 2014)
While it's not enough to bring out the snow blower yet, a wet day yesterday with a minimal amount of wind blown evening & overnight snow on top of it will make driving a challenge today.
Photos from the EOS M this time.
Our late winter break in Tenerife was a bit different this year. The weather was forecast to break the day we arrived – and it did! Rain wasn’t the problem it was gale force winds – the same winds that caused the dust storms in Africa that caused the pollution and sand in the UK. We have witnessed gales in Tenerife before but this was worse than we’d seen it in the past . The palm trees were bending, the sand drifting like snow and the sea was raging. We usually walk around 150 miles on a ten day break but for five days we just walked with a brief spell on the beach, then the gales came back. We covered 22 miles some days and totalled 192 miles, not bad for a beach holiday. In some of the photos it looks stunning but look at the tops of the palm trees, like inside out umbrellas, the beach beds are empty and the waves were up to ten feet high and smashing thirty feet in the air. For five days everyone stood taking photos of the sea. For two days all boats stayed in harbour, only the big ferries sailed, there wasn’t a thing at sea, not even the surfers, we’ve never known that happen before. To add to this jellyfish in their hundred were washing up on shore and there was a severe risk of a burn from them. Even when red flags were flying and flags warning about the jellyfish were up the occasional nutter would go in the water and some people took staggering risks with their children including one couple with a baby, dangling it over the waves, just to get a photo, playing chicken as monster waves crashed in.
One day I had to catch my club sandwich as it went flying from my plate in the wind, empty glasses slid off the table and seat cushions went cartwheeling down the pavement. A couple of days were dull and cool but the menacing clouds made impressive photos, the sea was like a boiling cauldron. We did have days of beautiful weather as well, the second half of the holiday was normal sunny Tenerife. I haven’t hired a car for ages on Tenerife, it adds a degree of hassle to – what is supposed to be – a sun and relax holiday so again we didn’t go up El Teide. Next time perhaps. I took my racing bike once just to cycle from sea level to 8000 feet nonstop – twice! it’s a seventy mile round trip and a long drag to the top. On the way home we had to make an emergency landing in Dublin, fire tenders with foam jets pointing at us, unfortunately I was facing the setting sun and couldn’t take photos as the sun was shining straight through the window. Seven and a half hours on the plane, not much fun.
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We were in The Lake District for the August Bank Holiday, great weather for walking but very busy – unlike the last Bank Holiday - where we had Great Gable to ourselves after a bad forecast kept people away. It was grim back home but we walked in shorts and Tee shirts.
Saturday and we were in the Old Dungeon Ghyll car park and away in good time. What a beautiful morning, we headed up Redacre Gill onto Pike of Blisco. The first climb of the day is always tough until the blood gets flowing. I didn’t really have a plan but it wasn’t what we did that’s for sure. I’d thought that we would walk until early afternoon and then head down, probably from Rossett Pike – But! Jayne made a call to her Mum from Pike of Blisco and she asked if we would be going over the Langdale Pikes – Jayne said yes! I looked at her and said “will we?” I was a bit surprised as it is a pretty full on walk – what we call a two Banana walk – and we only had one. She couldn’t believe that I was letting her off without doing the whole circuit of Langdale. We have done this walk before but usually in the opposite direction. There is a lot of slow and tough ground, ten tops ( depending on where exactly you go in the Langdales) over 15 miles and over 6000ft of ascent – a decent walk. The atmosphere was very clear for August, things had turned prematurely Autumnal last week so instead of warm weather haze it was very clear. We could make out buildings on the Isle of Man, we could also see rain in the distance, over Morecambe Bay and out in to The Pennines. It rained over there for hours and you can see it in the background in a lot of the photos.
We walked from Pike Of Blisco across Red Tarn to Cold Pike onto Crinkle Crags – Including the bad step. On Crinkle Crags we met a very Fit 65 year old from London, wiry and experienced, we crossed paths and walked with this guy for quite a while, it slowed us all down a bit but it didn’t matter. Bow Fell for sandwiches and our one banana. We picked our way down Hanging Knotts, the direct route to Rossett Pike. When there isn’t a well-worn path on the direct route there is always a reason – because it’s hard usually! This was the start of the second half of the walk but the afternoon was ticking by, if we were doing it I wasn’t prepared to cut corners and miss any tops so were committed to the whole thing.
We had a long slog over Rossett Pike, It’s a long fell, across Stake Pass and Martcrag Moor. After the dry summer and a wet August the fells were noticeably wetter underfoot and Martcrag was very boggy. Onto Pike of Stickle and Loft Crag. By mid-afternoon the Langdales were very busy with large family groups, every top had a small crowd on it, we took a photo and enjoyed the view and moved on – briskly! My old knee and ankle injuries were starting to tell a story by now but there wasn’t much I could do about it. Across to Harrison Stickle and I decided to include Thunacar Knott as it’s a short easy diversion on the way to Pavey Ark. Stood at the top of Pavey Ark looking over Stickle Tarn I knew that it was going to be a long painful descent – and it was. The mile or so from the New to the Old Dungeon Ghyll wasn’t so bad as there is a path through the fields which was nice and gentle on my aching joints. Eight hours wasn’t bad as we never hammered it, just wanting to enjoy our first big day on the tops for quite a long time. The golden Rule in Ambleside was calling – after a shower.
On Sunday we had another beautiful start although there was a fair bit of cloud later. We drove over Kirkstone Pass and down to Hartsop, there’s a little car park up the dead-end road through the village, it’s only small and you need to be there early, it was already filling as we got there. We had a tough first climb up the nose of Hartsop Dodd, steep but fantastic views. I’d thought long and hard about how to make the most of the fine forecast for today and views from the first climb proved that it was worth it. The day took us over 17 miles and fourteen tops, the ground was easier than yesterday so we finished an hour sooner but it was still a tough day.
Caudale Moor, Stoneycove Pike, down to Threshthwaite Cove, an out and back to Gray Crag and a quick early sandwich on Thornthwaite Crag. High Street, were most walkers never go near the summit but bypass it on the main path – something that’s true of a lot of tops and a lot of walkers – each to their own. Rampsgill Head out and back to High Raise and Kidsty Pike, back to Rampsgill Head and onto The Knott, Rest Dodd. We normally do an out and back to The Nab on this walk but not today, it might have caused some friction wi’ our Jaynie. Across Satura Crag to Brock Crags, we only had the twin tops of Angletarn Pikes to go and we were done with the tops. I usually find Angletarn Pikes hard work at the end of a long walk but we used a different path this time and they didn’t’ seem so bad. The problem with this walk is that you think it’s all over now but it’s a long fast yomp back to the car- around three miles with a little bit of climbing as well, it certainly magnifies the aches and pains.
Monday was forecast to be wet, very wet the further south you went so we headed north. It rained over breakfast and we feared the worst, gale force wind were also forecast and sure enough the trees outside the dining room were straining at the leash. I t might have to be a short leg stretcher. We headed for Keswick and parked below Dodd. We were the only ones there, gales and rain and it was the day of the Keswick show ( Grasmere Games and traffic gridlock yesterday) The rain stopped but it was a dark and grey day. We creaked our way up Dodd with aching legs, I don’t think Jayne was impressed but we plodded up Carl Side, battered by the wind. Once on Carl Side we were wind propelled along Long Side and over Ullock Pike. There was a bit of blue in the sky to the north and a bit of sun but not much. We descended via The Edge and back along Longside Wood. Nearly seven miles and 2000 ft of ascent.
Over two and a half days we climbed almost half the height of Everest, stood on 28 tops and walked 40 miles ( we clocked a couple of evening miles) we used to do eight day weeks in the Lakes with every day a full on day but over the last few years we haven’t made the effort to travel up there, we need to get our act together – and some new knees!
National weather service just upped the wind and rain forecast for the next 48 hours. We're looking at between 5-8 inches near the DC/maryland border.
The forecast was for sun but it was cloudy when I arrived. Then, with a quarter of an hour to go before it set, the sun burst through the clouds and there was 10 minutes of glorious light. I had wondered whether it was worthwhile to wait and see if anything happened. I am glad that I did.
PERFORMANCE
JEUDI 1er FÉVRIER 18H
Au Magasin des Horizons, Grenoble
Dans le cadre d'EXPERIMENTA, la Biennale Arts Sciences 2018
Giuseppe Chico
Barbara Matijević
Forecasting, troisième volet d’une trilogie intitulée D’une théorie de la performance à venir ou le Seul Moyen d’éviter le massacre serait-il d’en devenir les auteurs ? se base sur des films amateurs puisés dans le plus grand site d’hébergement de vidéos, utilisé comme un embrayeur de fictions. Ainsi, le spectacle emprunte à la culture populaire, à la science, aux jeux vidéo, au cinéma et à la musique… Barbara Matijević et Giuseppe Chico cherchent à construire de nouveaux modes narratifs entre le documentaire et la fiction. Sur scène une interprète manipule un ordinateur portable sur l’écran duquel défilent des vidéos qui répondent toutes à un critère d’échelle 1:1. À partir de cette contrainte naît un jeu de déplacement spatial et temporel. L’écran devient le lieu de croisement entre le corps de l’interprète et le monde bidimensionnel de l’image. Il en résulte une expérience narrative singulière où la banalité des situations génère en direct une part mystérieuse.
Storm watch in effect for the Kingston area. Can you say "Gangie can't wait to be on that plane to Cuba?" LOL
My week is rushed with last minute things so I may not get by to visit all of your photos before our return mid February.
For those in the "storm watch" area...stay warm!
Thanks to the Weather Network for this tidbit:
Environment Canada has issued a blizzard warning for parts of southern Ontario in advance of a massive storm that's set to dump up to 40 cm of snow on some areas on Wednesday.
It's the first time since March 1993 that such a widespread blizzard warning has been issued in the region.
The definition of a blizzard has recently changed.
Isabel Ruddick with Environment Canada said the organization began reviewing the criteria for what constitutes a blizzard in June 2010 and created a new official definition.
“The main idea was to harmonize the warnings and criteria across the country so that we would deliver a consistent warning program to Canadians,” she said in an email.
Blizzards are characterized mainly by strong winds
Environment Canada issues winter storm watches and warnings when 25 or more centimetres of snow are expected to fall within a 24-hour period or when snowfall is combined with other severe winter weather, including freezing rain, strong winds and extreme cold.
Blizzards are characterized mainly by strong winds -- specifically, winds that are expected to reduce visibility to 400 meters or less in combination with falling snow for at least four hours.
Environment Canada currently applies that criteria to storms anywhere in Canada south of the tree line. North of the tree line (the northernmost portion of the territories, northern Quebec and Labrador), the criteria is the same, but the conditions have to be expected to last for at least six hours.
Under the old definition, a storm would have to pack winds of 50 kilometers per hour or more, visibility of one kilometer or less, and windchill values of -25°C or lower to be considered a blizzard.
and this from Environment Canada
Kingston - Odessa - Frontenac Islands
10:07 PM EST Tuesday 01 February 2011
Winter storm warning for
Kingston - Odessa - Frontenac Islands continued
Major winter storm tonight into groundhog day.
The major storm which was born in Texas late Monday is tracking northeast across Indiana accompanied by a huge shield of wintery precipitation. Heavy snow has arrived in Southwestern Ontario this evening and will quickly spread northeast to the greater Toronto area shortly after after midnight and into Eastern Ontario by Wednesday morning. Widespread total snowfall amounts of 20 to 30 centimetres are likely before the snow begins to lighten up early Wednesday morning in the southwest..Later in the morning for Toronto and late in the day for the east.
In addition brisk northeast winds of 30 to 50 km/h will accompany the snow..Creating frequent whiteout conditions.
Places such as Stratford..Kitchener..And Toronto will get near blizzard conditions overnight and Wednesday morning and it is quite possible that a blizzard warning may be issued for these regions.
The snow will likely mix with ice pellets and some freezing rain for awhile tonight for regions near Lake Erie. A few claps of thunder are also quite possible. This will be the first Major winter storm of the season for the Toronto area..And the strongest storm of the season for many regions outside the traditional snow belts. It will have a major impact on travel with considerable blowing and drifting snow and dangerously low to nil visibilities in whiteout conditions.
This is a warning that dangerous winter weather conditions are imminent or occurring in these regions. Monitor weather conditions..Listen for updated statements.
Motorists should be prepared to change plans accordingly to avoid unnecessary travel during the storm as conditions will be dangerous. If driving is necessary..Make sure you have an emergency kit..And if your car gets stuck..Remain calm and remain in your car.
Environment Canada continues to monitor this dangerous winter storm and will issue further watches and warnings as necessary.