Three more pastels just finished. Been working hard as a few exhibitions coming up! River is in & other scene is a local fenland view.

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Two of the I'm showing in 'Land Lines' at The Old Fire Engine House, Ely, on until the end of November. More details at: https://t.co/o3ssUb4VhO

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Today on Johnny Lyons on ‘the strange and precarious landscape’ of the East Anglian Fenlands, this, another illustration of the Great Fen. Read more at

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Fenland ditch. Oil pastel.

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Fenland National Motor Circuit (GP layout)

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It is said the more surreal elements appearing in the folktales of wild, isolated, desolate areas like the fenland were due to fever dreams from Malaria caused by undrained bogs & swamps. These were enhanced by the opium in the poppyhead tea that they took to cure it

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Before Enclosure of the fenlands, people of the Carrland in Lincolnshire used to use opium (as white poppy tea) to treat malaria in adults, children & livestock. It’s said that opium dreams & malaria fevers explain the very strange tales that come from there

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Wonderful collection of Jamie Sugg paintings in exhibition in Norwich and online at https://t.co/n90Qmgx6JA do check them out - can be packaged & sent to you

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Ame v. Wolfenland
very fun, very cheerful, ready for a beach party
"payungnya ga dipasang di pantai , Me?"
"engga ah dibuat mainan lebih seru."

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ボドゲで遊ぼう!

「ひかるホタル」
(https://t.co/xczwmQaE5I)

「エルフェンランド (Elfenland) [日本語訳付き]」
(https://t.co/FfVQVFhkrh)

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ArtReach nori pamatyti jūsų pasiūlytą Fenlando ateitį. Prisijunkite prie komandos kūrybiniame pokalbyje apie Fenlando kūrybiškumo, kultūros istorijos bei jo gerovės naudą.

https://t.co/zYGGf5vYda

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Working in sculpture and print, Lucy uses a range of techniques that reduce, simplify, note and mark ideas in an abstract way, creating work that looks afresh at the place and character of a Fenland Lincolnshire Landscape.
Part of The Graduates: Restriction Free until 15/02/20

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A local fenland scene to wish everyone a very happy Christmas and hope you have a fantastic 2020!

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Fenland mothers would never suckle their children during a thunderstorm as it was believed that their milk would taste of sulphur and brimstone.

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panorama
Reflections on the Ouse River,
Denver Sluice

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1. There are a lot more Brittonic than OE place-names; 2. there’s no sign that fenland was divided between them; 3. and the interspersed pattern suggests that these were local, bilingual communities who used the language most useful at the time of naming. END

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Early place- and river-names in the East Anglian fenland suggest that most people - at least part of whose ancestry could be traced into prehistoric Britain - spoke two, or sometimes more, languages. And there’s no evidence that they were divided by the languages they spoke (1/3)

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