Patrick Limb
@patchlimb.bsky.social
Half-English, half-French, half-Scots KC @ropewalklaw. Completing biography of Capt FC Dietrichsen. Learning how to handle the Northumberland Small Pipes.
Part of a series of four stained glass panels representing the four seasons designed by William Morris for the inglenook fireplace in the Dining Room at Cragside, Northumberland and made in 1873. Saw them at the weekend - the other three are here, though I botched my snap of Winter:
September 22, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Part of a series of four stained glass panels representing the four seasons designed by William Morris for the inglenook fireplace in the Dining Room at Cragside, Northumberland and made in 1873. Saw them at the weekend - the other three are here, though I botched my snap of Winter:
September 22, 2025 at 9:54 PM
September 8, 2025 at 8:19 PM
“Because freedom, I am told, is nothing but the distance between the hunter and it’s prey.”
- Ocean Vuong, ‘On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous’
- Ocean Vuong, ‘On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous’
August 17, 2025 at 3:36 PM
“Because freedom, I am told, is nothing but the distance between the hunter and it’s prey.”
- Ocean Vuong, ‘On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous’
- Ocean Vuong, ‘On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous’
“I’ll let you into a secret: when times are confusing, everybody is a little lost. No one is an inwardly confident as they present themselves to be. Hence the reason we must read, my boy. Books, like paper lanterns, provide us with a light amidst the fog”
- Elif Shafak ‘There are Rivers in the Sky’
- Elif Shafak ‘There are Rivers in the Sky’
August 15, 2025 at 12:54 AM
“I’ll let you into a secret: when times are confusing, everybody is a little lost. No one is an inwardly confident as they present themselves to be. Hence the reason we must read, my boy. Books, like paper lanterns, provide us with a light amidst the fog”
- Elif Shafak ‘There are Rivers in the Sky’
- Elif Shafak ‘There are Rivers in the Sky’
Now the hot winds blows
The first lotus blossoms bright -
‘Young hawk learn to fly’
#MicroSeasons #Haiku
The first lotus blossoms bright -
‘Young hawk learn to fly’
#MicroSeasons #Haiku
July 29, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Now the hot winds blows
The first lotus blossoms bright -
‘Young hawk learn to fly’
#MicroSeasons #Haiku
The first lotus blossoms bright -
‘Young hawk learn to fly’
#MicroSeasons #Haiku
The nights are fair closing in
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July 17, 2025 at 8:57 PM
The nights are fair closing in
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It’s a geologically rich area - loved these Sandstone cliffs, and this Carboniferous amphitheatre close by the House. And good on the seabirds too. It’s as Scottish round here as England gets! You and Paul should visit.
July 17, 2025 at 7:38 PM
It’s a geologically rich area - loved these Sandstone cliffs, and this Carboniferous amphitheatre close by the House. And good on the seabirds too. It’s as Scottish round here as England gets! You and Paul should visit.
Three!
“And that’s how I came
to the edge of the pond:
black and empty
except for a spindle
of bleached reeds
at the far shore
which, as I looked,
wrinkled suddenly
into three egrets –
a shower
of white fire!”
- Mary Oliver, from ‘Egrets’
(Image: Jessie Arms Botke (1883-1971))
“And that’s how I came
to the edge of the pond:
black and empty
except for a spindle
of bleached reeds
at the far shore
which, as I looked,
wrinkled suddenly
into three egrets –
a shower
of white fire!”
- Mary Oliver, from ‘Egrets’
(Image: Jessie Arms Botke (1883-1971))
July 17, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Three!
“And that’s how I came
to the edge of the pond:
black and empty
except for a spindle
of bleached reeds
at the far shore
which, as I looked,
wrinkled suddenly
into three egrets –
a shower
of white fire!”
- Mary Oliver, from ‘Egrets’
(Image: Jessie Arms Botke (1883-1971))
“And that’s how I came
to the edge of the pond:
black and empty
except for a spindle
of bleached reeds
at the far shore
which, as I looked,
wrinkled suddenly
into three egrets –
a shower
of white fire!”
- Mary Oliver, from ‘Egrets’
(Image: Jessie Arms Botke (1883-1971))
You could for a week (or two) - and it has a better roof than Dunstanburgh Castle at the next headland. The Bathing House is rented for holidaying. The Castle is a premier foreground for full moon rising snaps.
July 17, 2025 at 4:23 PM
You could for a week (or two) - and it has a better roof than Dunstanburgh Castle at the next headland. The Bathing House is rented for holidaying. The Castle is a premier foreground for full moon rising snaps.
July 17, 2025 at 3:47 PM
July 16, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Vive la France!
(La Belle Cabaretière, Marcel-François Leprin)
(La Belle Cabaretière, Marcel-François Leprin)
July 14, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Vive la France!
(La Belle Cabaretière, Marcel-François Leprin)
(La Belle Cabaretière, Marcel-François Leprin)
“Un petit coin de parapluie
Contre un coin de paradis
Elle avait quelque chose d'un ange
Un petit coin de paradis
Contre un coin de parapluie
Je ne perdais pas au change, pardi”
- Georges Brassens
Contre un coin de paradis
Elle avait quelque chose d'un ange
Un petit coin de paradis
Contre un coin de parapluie
Je ne perdais pas au change, pardi”
- Georges Brassens
July 6, 2025 at 8:17 PM
“Un petit coin de parapluie
Contre un coin de paradis
Elle avait quelque chose d'un ange
Un petit coin de paradis
Contre un coin de parapluie
Je ne perdais pas au change, pardi”
- Georges Brassens
Contre un coin de paradis
Elle avait quelque chose d'un ange
Un petit coin de paradis
Contre un coin de parapluie
Je ne perdais pas au change, pardi”
- Georges Brassens
Oh dear, a Bowie reference
July 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Oh dear, a Bowie reference
Do remember they can’t cancel the spring (Hockney, 2020)
July 5, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Do remember they can’t cancel the spring (Hockney, 2020)
Oh la la. The Moulin Rouge awaits.
July 4, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Oh la la. The Moulin Rouge awaits.
Generationally different dentistry
June 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Generationally different dentistry
Throwing shapes for your eyes
#Northumberland
#Northumberland
June 29, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Throwing shapes for your eyes
#Northumberland
#Northumberland
“He who would do good to another, must do it in minute particulars.
General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer.”
- William Blake
(Yesterday’s take home - the devil is ~ not ~ in the detail)
General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer.”
- William Blake
(Yesterday’s take home - the devil is ~ not ~ in the detail)
June 28, 2025 at 7:52 AM
“He who would do good to another, must do it in minute particulars.
General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer.”
- William Blake
(Yesterday’s take home - the devil is ~ not ~ in the detail)
General good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite and flatterer.”
- William Blake
(Yesterday’s take home - the devil is ~ not ~ in the detail)
Coquet Island putting on a show
#Northumberland
#Northumberland
June 24, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Coquet Island putting on a show
#Northumberland
#Northumberland
A fine, but not final, poem from Edward Limb in the latest edition of ‘The London Magazine’.
June 14, 2025 at 7:37 AM
A fine, but not final, poem from Edward Limb in the latest edition of ‘The London Magazine’.
“Sailing right along
on a three-day crescent moon, the long-eared owl longs for an earful of music:
the pines humming in the wind.”
Poem: Hachijintei
Image: Hiroshige
Exhibition: British Museum
on a three-day crescent moon, the long-eared owl longs for an earful of music:
the pines humming in the wind.”
Poem: Hachijintei
Image: Hiroshige
Exhibition: British Museum
June 13, 2025 at 3:51 PM
“Sailing right along
on a three-day crescent moon, the long-eared owl longs for an earful of music:
the pines humming in the wind.”
Poem: Hachijintei
Image: Hiroshige
Exhibition: British Museum
on a three-day crescent moon, the long-eared owl longs for an earful of music:
the pines humming in the wind.”
Poem: Hachijintei
Image: Hiroshige
Exhibition: British Museum