I love clock towers. Marking the hours above stable yards, regimenting school timetables and a focus point for swifts on summer evenings. Here's one on a bank, but in which town?
Bingo Henry, well spotted. I drove into the centre yesterday, forgetting it was their Mop Fair, so just to the right of my picture are hugh pieces of metal and plastic flying around lit by light bulbs.
yes - yes that's all very well but where are my Izmir Cigarettes from the smoker's emporium ? eh ? One thing - just one - that's all you had to bloody remember. Sometimes I wonder if there are perhaps some people who are content to go through life with complete disregard for the "Find a Real Turkish Smoke" search. MORE CAMPAIGNING !
Growing up in Warwick I have fond memories of The Mop. One vivid and colourfull one is of the roasting of an Ox over a charcoal fire. Real Diplo stuff.
Ah, cunning. Time passing in the apparent absence of the intrepid blogger, who has no doubt gone to ground in the absence of Izmir Cigarettes. The mop will have gone too. Here in Gloucestershire we've just had the Tewkesbury Mop, plus our own tiny Winchcombe Mop (two rides and a dog, but it's an excuse, if one were needed, for the local youth to have a good scrap).
official complaint - i shall be reporting this lack of activity to the relevant authorities. Plus I'm meeting the blog administrator for a beer tonight so I'll get the whole story.
I am a designer, writer and photographer who spends all his time looking at England, particularly buildings and the countryside. But I have a leaning towards the slightly odd and neglected, the unsung elements that make England such an interesting place to live in. I am the author and photographer of over 25 books, in particular Unmitigated England (Adelphi 2006), More from Unmitigated England (Adelphi 2007), Cross Country (Wiley 2011), The Cigarette Papers (Frances Lincoln 2012), Preposterous Erections (Frances Lincoln 2012) and English Allsorts (Adelphi 2015)
"Open this book with reverence. It is a hymn to England". Clive Aslet
Preposterous Erections
"Enchanting...delightful". The Bookseller "Cheekily named" We Love This Book
The Cigarette Papers
"Unexpectedly pleasing and engrossing...beautifully illustrated". The Bookseller
Cross Country
"Until the happy advent of Peter Ashley's Cross Country it has, ironically, been foreigners who have been best at celebrating Englishness". Christina Hardyment / The Independent
More from Unmitigated England
"Give this book to someone you know- if not everyone you know." Simon Heffer, Country Life. "When it comes to spotting the small but telling details of Englishness, Peter Ashley has no equal." Michael Prodger, Sunday Telegraph
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Stratford!
Bingo Henry, well spotted. I drove into the centre yesterday, forgetting it was their Mop Fair, so just to the right of my picture are hugh pieces of metal and plastic flying around lit by light bulbs.
yes - yes that's all very well but where are my Izmir Cigarettes from the smoker's emporium ? eh ? One thing - just one - that's all you had to bloody remember. Sometimes I wonder if there are perhaps some people who are content to go through life with complete disregard for the "Find a Real Turkish Smoke" search. MORE CAMPAIGNING !
Oh Diplo, I'm so sorry. I'll go back there NOW.
Growing up in Warwick I have fond memories of The Mop. One vivid and colourfull one is of the roasting of an Ox over a charcoal fire. Real Diplo stuff.
Where's "Where's That, Then?" then?
Stratford - Upon - Avon ?
My point being: where's this week's?!?
I think this is this week's - you'll notice a very slight shift of the clock hands - I think Ashley was trying to fool us
Ah, cunning. Time passing in the apparent absence of the intrepid blogger, who has no doubt gone to ground in the absence of Izmir Cigarettes. The mop will have gone too. Here in Gloucestershire we've just had the Tewkesbury Mop, plus our own tiny Winchcombe Mop (two rides and a dog, but it's an excuse, if one were needed, for the local youth to have a good scrap).
mmmmm - very dark in here
where's the door ?
Still looks remarkably like S-u-A
Unlike Lord A not to give us even a break-in-service update. May stop dropping by.
official complaint - i shall be reporting this lack of activity to the relevant authorities. Plus I'm meeting the blog administrator for a beer tonight so I'll get the whole story.
Hope it is nothing serious.
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