2 hours, 53 minutes to wait for the major headline news
#PetShopBoys are playing some different songs live
#EmmaBarnett fails to make it interesting, resorting instead to infantile giggling
“Come, friendly bombs, and fall on #BBC #R4Today
It isn’t fit for humans these days anyway”
#JohnBetjeman
graft from “Greek Orthodox” John Betjeman in A Nip in the Air (John Murray, 1974) in the beginning was the explanation, though the explanation was odd. now, in this little whitewashed building, a mystery is chanted, obfuscation in a cloud of incense, solemn faces peering from their masks of gold and silver at the dim, cool goings on. outside, the painted boats rock empty by the quay, straw-seated chairs and battered tables slowly fade and blister in the August sun, while thyme- and sage-sharp air sits still upon the hillside, rippled by the heat, vibrated by the bells on sheep and goats who tear at dusty clumps of grass, and contemplate the meaning of it all.
37. "-ology".
from "Hard Graft on the Half Shell", a sequence of poems grown around one-line grafts taken from other poets' poems.
#poem #poetry #skypoets #blueskypoets #poetsofbluesky #poetrycommunity #writingcommunity #hardgraft #johnbetjeman
Always look up !
Sir John Betjeman
St Pancras
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#london #johnbetjeman #betjeman #stpancras
#architecture #station #railway #sculpture #GeorgeGilbertScott
#nikonz8 #snap_architecture #snap_London #snap_city #snap_sculpture #snap_buildings #snap_railwaystations #snap_railway #snap_statues #snap_people
Marking the official end of regular mainline steam operation in August 1968.
🚂 RAILWAYS FOR EVER! (1968) 2:50pm with #JohnBetjeman featuring the last steam train crossing the #Pennines
A three-quarter view with a high tower as the main focus. A path runs along the bottom. Two trees in the foreground obscures large parts of the church. The sky is cloudy. This church is listed as Middlesex 4 in the Collins Pocket Guide to English Parish Churches: south, edited and introduced by John Betjeman. 1968 printing.
A side view of a church with a high tower on the left. A road runs from left to right in the foreground. A white signage board announces this is the church of St Alban. A tree with leaves is on the right hand side. Five high and narrow church windows run along the side. The sky is cloudy. This church is listed as Middlesex 4 in the Collins Pocket Guide to English Parish Churches: south, edited and introduced by John Betjeman. 1968 printing.
An interior view with red benches on both sides. Blue tables with chairs are towards the front of the photograph. The sides are cream coloured. The ceiling has arches directing the gaze to the far end and the cross hanging on the wall. This church is listed as Middlesex 4 in the Collins Pocket Guide to English Parish Churches: south, edited and introduced by John Betjeman. 1968 printing.
St Alban church at North Harrow. Described in Betjeman’s book (see Alt text for book details) as ‘the best Middlesex church of the 1930s, by AW Kenyon, in yellow brick’. #ParishChurches #JohnBetjeman #London #Harrow #StAlban
Dear Mary, Yes, it will be bliss To go with you by train to Diss, Your walking shoes upon your feet; We'll meet, my sweet, at Liverpool Street. That levellers we may be reckoned Perhaps we'd better travel second; Or, lest reporters on us burst, Perhaps we'd better travel first. Above the chimney-pots we'll go Through Stepney, Stratford-atte-Bow And out to where the Essex marsh Is filled with houses new and harsh Till, Witham pass'd, the landscape yields On left and right to widening fields, Flint church-towers sparkling in the light, Black beams and weather-boarding white, Cricket-bat willows silvery green And elmy hills with brooks between, Maltings and saltings, stack and quay And, somewhere near, the grey North Sea; Then further gentle undulations With lonelier and less frequent stations, Till in the dimmest place of all The train slows down into a crawl And stops in silence.....Where is this? Dear Mary Wilson, this is Diss.
#Poetry
#Poem
#BlueskyPoetry
#JohnBetjeman
A Mind's Journey to Diss by John Betjeman
All aboard!
🚂 JOHN BETJEMAN GOES BY TRAIN (1962) 7:40pm. From #KingsLynn to #Norfolk #Snettisham #Hunstanton and the sea. An unusual and enchanting journey, illuminated by #JohnBetjeman and his engaging personality.
Clark Whyte and John Fox at Sister Ray record store, London
My week of electronica themed fun begins with one the masters, #JohnFoxx and will continue with #Bowie at V&A/#Blitz exhibition/#RustyEgan weekend .... not forgetting a dash of #mickjones rock'n'roll public library, #JohnBetjeman and #ThenJerico - bring it on!
The cover of "Betjeman's Cornwall" by John Betjeman, which shows a man in a suit and cap holding a walking stick looking out to sea with a beach and hillside in the background.
New read: I've had this copy of Betjeman's Cornwall for more than 30 years. It's yellowing, but otherwise doesn't show the multiple readings I've subjected it to. Revisiting it yet again as a way of pretending I'm still in North Cornwall.
#newread #betjemanscornwall #johnbetjeman #cornwall
The wondrous experiences that being a Grandad brings. #CocomelonLive and an after party. #HardRockCafe #GermanGymnasium #JohnBetjeman
Bisexual English poet and broadcaster John Betjeman was BOTD in 1906. A beloved Poet Laureate and campaigner to save historical buildings, he is perhaps best known for the line “Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough!” #johnbetjeman #poetlaureate #supergays #bornonthisday
Swains Lane, Highgate
Tall Italianate Houses
North London Trains
Untitled Cornish landscape
Another illustrated Betjeman, this time Summoned By Bells with watercolours and line drawings by Hugh Casson #SecondhandBookshopFinds #JohnBetjeman #HughCasson
Jericho
Scout
The Cherwell
Trinity College
A 1979 edition of a John Betjeman book, An Oxford University Chest, originally published in 1938 and chiefly of interest to me because most of the photographs are by László Moholy-Nagy #SecondhandBookshopFinds #JohnBetjeman #LászlóMoholyNagy #Oxford
Our Monthly Social is this Thursday @thebetjemanarms St. Pancras. Open to everyone so please join us!
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#ramblersuk #walking #hiking #drinking #johnbetjeman #london #stpancrasstation
Two butterflies against rich turquoise green background
Detail of John Piper & Joseph Nuttgens' window commemorating John Betjeman, All Saints, Farnborough, Berks #StainedGlass #Butterfly #Butterflies #JohnPiper #JosephNuttgens #JohnBetjeman
Whether of faith or none (I'm the latter) reconnect with this. The metre, the fresh imagery, the happy contrasts are arrested by the last two stanzas. #JohnBetjeman is at his memorable best here, I think, carving out a snug hole in the collective memory of #Christmas.
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Recently visit to St Enodoc in Cornwall. Nice walk after the short ferry ride from Padstow #JohnBetjeman #Cornwall
🔊 #NowPlaying on BBC Radio 3's #WordsAndMusic
John Betjeman, Jim Parker & John Betjeman:
🎵 Indoor Games Near Newbury
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▶️ Track on #Spotify:
New read: with all the lovely Betjeman programming on over the weekend, I took a little detour to one of his last collections. Lovely. #newread #johnbetjeman #anipintheair #poetry
