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News from Norfolk

The occasional diary of someone who lives in an old house in East Anglia but also sometimes in an old house in Soho, London.

  • Based in United Kingdom
  • Roughly five posts per year
  • First post on

Posts per year

Data for this chart is available in the table below
Posts per year
Year starting Posts
2017 3
2018 6
2019 0
2020 5
2021 3
2022 5
2023 8
2024 5
2025 0

Any gaps could be due to errors when fetching the blog’s feed.

Most recent posts

The Excavation
“’Tis the solitude of the Country that creates these Whimsies; there was never such a thing as a Ghost heard of at London, except in the Play-house.” Joseph Addison, The Drummer (1716) “I hope you …
On , by Barendina Smedley, 14,584 words
Frank Auerbach: in memoriam
British painter Frank Auerbach has died, at the age of 93 years. Whatever else they may have been, Auerbach’s pictures were never easy — easy to make, or easy to love. Effort was demanded on …
On , by Barendina Smedley, 1,921 words
A Doubtful Attribution
On that afternoon when I first learned of Lucinda’s death, it was as if some sort of filter had fallen between me and the rest of the world. The bright September sunlight was suddenly dim, …
On , by Barendina Smedley, 4,345 words