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25th Ickworth Wood & Craft Fair
A great day out on Sunday 5 October 2014, at the 25th Ickworth Wood and Craft Fair.
It all began in the in 1989 when after the great storm of 1987, the estate found it had significant tree damage and an excess of wood to dispose of. The first sales of wood were held in the empty shell that was the West Wing of Ickworth at the time, but it rapidly grew out of this space and moved outside. Today it's evolved into a weekend for everyone to enjoy as woodcraft and many other country craft professionals and enthusiasts come together to demonstrate and sell their crafts. The fair includes live bands, locally brewed ales, pottery tent with raku firing, plenty of local foods and produce, wood demonstrations, craft stalls and children's activities including archery to test your skills.
Ickworth Wood
This is a rare opportunity for wood professionals and enthusiasts to buy quality Ickworth wood milled from the estate. Choose from oak, ash, sycamore, cedar and cherry, ¼ sawn 1" to 2 ½" planks. The wood this year was naturally resourced after the recent storms, as well as felled within the management of the estate.
Specialist Wood Displays and Stalls
An opportunity to watch craftsmen at work turning British wood into unique pieces of art. A wide variety of stalls selling everything from handmade wooden puppets to tables, sculptures, rocking chairs and bird tables to windchimes.
Craft Stalls
Many stalls selling quality homemade and home restored items, by the stall holders. From tempting cakes to pretty jewellery. The perfect time to for early buying of Christmas presents that will impress everyone and that are not available on the high street.
Eating and Drinking Stalls
A wide variety to choose from. From hog roast, hot dogs or possibly a jacket potato, together with a refreshing glass of fresh lemonade or maybe a beer to wash it all down. The chance to take some local brewed St Peter's beer home or home brewed ciders.
Pottery
A visit the pottery tent where the Anglian potters could be found, selling a wide variety of beautiful handmade products including raku fired pieces. You could also see the Raku firing kiln and learn all about the art of pottery with live 'throwing wheel' demonstrations.
There were a number of other pottery stalls where you could admire the skills of the stall holders and purchase the items they've made. You could even add your own designs to a plate which would be fired and sent to you. A lovely momento to remember the day.
'Oliver' Steam Traction Engine
Oliver the 'Little Ruston' steam traction engine opened and closed the fair with his arrival and departure tooting his horn. Watching the engine at work sawing wood, a fantastic opportunity to step back in time and reminisce about bygone days.
Love these, but can't remember where I picked them up. These days I tend to just take photos and leave the shells on the beach
Looking down on the tip of a pearlescent conical seashell. It is so perfect in its pearly spiral.
Click here to see side shot.
Taken with iPhone 3GS with this home-made macro lens from a disposable camera.
Abalone shells have such a terrific texture and yield such a fantastic "meat" when prepared properly.
made with a cedar twig found in the yard, fingering weight merino, some beachcombed shells and feathers, and a bit of hand dyed wool.
An ancient piece of beach, location unknown. These are pretty recent-looking shells, so I'm assuming this wasn't from the time of brachiopods...
Fishing theme cupcakes for a friend's 42nd birthday. When I asked him what he wanted on his cake, he said: "fish, crabs and big boobs!!"
I was going to do a big cake but wimped out because of the heat and humidity at the moment!
Chocolate mud cupcakes with raspberries, coated in dark choc ganache and covered in fondant. The first time I have covered cupcakes with fondant. Cupcakes are so fiddly!
All decorations are also fondant and edible.
We're off to the beach for a BBQ - hope they survive!
The inside of each Abalone Shell, away from where it attaches to the shell, is polished by the mollusc itself as it moves.
#13 Shell/s for 116 pictures in 2016
The Shell Grotto, Pontypool | Groto Cregyn
The Shell Grotto was originally constructed circa 1794, although many improvements were made by Molly, the wife of Capel Hanbury-Leigh around 1830.
Molly is credited with the interior design and it is known that she subscribed to the publication "Follies and Grottoes".
The Shell Grotto is circular, built of rough stone with a conical stone tiled roof. The ceiling is vaulted and supported by six pillars decorated with stones and shells. The floor is reputed to be made from deer bones but closer inspection reveals a variety of bones and teeth from a number of different animals.
The Shell Grotto was always a popular attraction for sightseers but was, unfortunately, allowed to fall into decay around thirty years ago. However, it's structure rose from the ashes in 1996 when it was painstakingly restored with funding from Cadw and European Aid.
The unknown story of the broken sea shells collectors
At Uadaypur sea beach (3km from Digha at the Bengal-Orissa state border), hundreds of poor villagers (80% of them are women) gather on a particular time of the day at the peak of the low tide. They all carry a small net basket for collecting broken shells following the line of the waves. When the baskets are half-filled they empty their catch at the beach and go back to the waves again. Finally the shells are packed in bags for selling. After two hours of continuous hard work, two people together can fill only a 30-kg bag selling for INR Rs 30 (USD 50 cents) only.
The shells are rich source of calcium carbonate, use in feeder mainly at the India's growing poultry industry. Also, it has great demand in making the white (lime) paint. Traders and middlemen are always waiting to exploit these poor villagers. They make on-the-spot payment, collect the bags and transport them to the local market for a hefty profit of 300% by selling each bag for at least Rs 100 (USD $ 2).
I personally talked to the shell collectors and found no Govt. intervention to stop this exploitation. The state government can easily intervene by forming a cooperative and collecting the shells themselves by their nodal agencies with a reasonable price.
Udaypur Sea Beach, Bay of Bengal
Images of Bengal, India
There are a few casuarina trees on the coast around Diggers where people have placed shells. Some of the days were quite smoky but this day wasn't one of them :-) Explored briefly #498
PORTSMOUTH, Va. – A pile of fossilized oyster shell is ready to be transported via conveyor belt to a sifter. The Craney Island Dredged Material Management Area here is a temporary home for thousands of cubic yards of dredged fossil shell being dredged from Tribell Shoal in the James River. On July 8, the site began storing the shell, which will be used for the construction of six oyster reefs for the Craney Island Eastward Expansion project. Construction of the $3.6 million environmental restoration project is set to begin in August of this year. Reefs will be built in Hoffler Creek, Baines Creek, Blows Creek, the Lafayette River and two in Gilligan’s Creek. (US Army photo/Pamela K. Spaugy)
Best seen in B l a c k M a g i c
After the heavy seas there are piles of shells on parts of the beach. I always find them a challenge to my imagination
Note the name of the place ... the "Railway garage". It's next to the Ontario Northland line in New Liskeard, Ontario
Top Row (left to right) - Lettered Olive, Juvenile Conch, Jewel Box, Lightning Whelk
Middle (left to right) - Florida Cone, Paper Fig, Calico Scallop, Part of a Tulip Shell
Bottom (left to right) - Auger, Keyhole Limpet, Murex, Conch
She'll Gas Station Sign Gasoline Petrol , pics by Mike Mozart of JeepersMedia and TheToyChannel on YouTube.
Drove the loop Santa Barbara - Ojai - Carrizo Plain - Morro Bay - Santa Barbara yesterday. Certainly no "superbloom" at Carrizo Plain this year - the condition is best be described as "no bloom at all". Shell Creek Road was the only notable display of wildflowers we encountered.
More pics from this can be found in Lumiere Fotografie Magazine: www.magcloud.com/browse/issue/150226
Shot: Liverpool, 22nd November, 2010.
Shell Keeley Shoot…
I photographed the FABULOUS Shell Keeley recently. We met up and had tea at the Rococo Coffee House, in Liverpool. It was the first time I had met Shell, but we had been in touch via msgs on Facebook and such, so it didn’t really feel like our first meeting. I had wanted to photograph her because she simply looks divine, in her genuine vintage clothes PLUS she is the sweetest lady. So here we are, sat by the window in this rococo styled coffee shop, having a good old chin-wag, topics ranging from Vincent Price to Bette Davis, it wasn’t long before our cups were empty. So I set up my lights & we shot away.
We then packed up, Shell made a quick out-fit change (1930’s German red dress), and we were gone.
NEXT UP…
OUT DOOR SHOTS
We had a little wander about, taking pictures with just natural daylight. Stunning results with backlighting from the sun. Shell has the BEST eyes, so I took lots of close-up shots with an aperture of F/1.7 at 100 ISO, with my Pentax manual focus lens.
Really happy with the results, and you wouldn’t believe it was Shell’s first ever photo session. Beautiful pictures of a beautiful person, with the most impeccable manners. A true lady.
(C) Darren Cheshire Photography
Second floor mantel. Even though the house was started about 1790, much of the interior was not finished until the early 1800's. That's how it got it's name. They said they were living in a shell of a house. This mantel is in one of the rooms that was finished later. It looks to be more Federal than Georgian.