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:
Of dear, the apostrophe!
August 17, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Of dear, the apostrophe!
Hah! The very same. A truly wonderful read.
August 15, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Hah! The very same. A truly wonderful read.
All that you predicted is, I fear, coming true … and yet, and yet:
“why should we be tender to let an arrogant piece of flesh threat us, play judge and executioner all himself" (Cymbeline)
“why should we be tender to let an arrogant piece of flesh threat us, play judge and executioner all himself" (Cymbeline)
August 15, 2025 at 1:07 AM
All that you predicted is, I fear, coming true … and yet, and yet:
“why should we be tender to let an arrogant piece of flesh threat us, play judge and executioner all himself" (Cymbeline)
“why should we be tender to let an arrogant piece of flesh threat us, play judge and executioner all himself" (Cymbeline)
Google Lens suggests "Colorful Path" by artist Jessel Miller
August 15, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Google Lens suggests "Colorful Path" by artist Jessel Miller
Google Translate is suggesting the ‘Pacific’, as in “Crossing the Pacific Ocean yesterday morning - and returning at night in the fog. My favorite trip”. If so, that is a very speedy boat!
July 19, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Google Translate is suggesting the ‘Pacific’, as in “Crossing the Pacific Ocean yesterday morning - and returning at night in the fog. My favorite trip”. If so, that is a very speedy boat!
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.
The first (ordinaire is mine). The second was, I thought, from the booking website but on inspection us by Rick Ford from North Shields - and far better than my snap.
July 17, 2025 at 4:52 PM
The first (ordinaire is mine). The second was, I thought, from the booking website but on inspection us by Rick Ford from North Shields - and far better than my snap.
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.