Some selected photographs from Ayscoughfee Hall in Spalding, Lincolnshire.
All photographs copyright Francis Barker 2020.
The Holiday Season is Over, but Autumn is Here
Jeff Beck and Johnny Depp “Isolation” John Lennon cover — AMERICA ON COFFEE (Reblog)
Legendary guitarist and two-time Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee Jeff Beck, one of the great collaborators in music history, has once-again found an unexpected co-conspirator… … 28 more words
Jeff Beck and Johnny Depp “Isolation” John Lennon cover — AMERICA ON COFFEE
End of the Holiday Season at Hunstanton, West Norfolk
*Autumn is here, so let’s stay on top of things.
All photographs copyright Francis Barker 2020.
Poem: ‘Enough’
Our contact is painful, sporadic,
remote, your response is typical,
and so predictable.
How can such a high IQ
produce an attitude like this?
“Wash your hands,” you’re told.
You ask “how many times?”
Now your silence says it all.
I have always washed my hands,
common sense suggests
such practices are sound, though
now especially when it comes to
you.
Copyright Francis Barker 2020
The Fall is Here — but Here We Call it Autumn
In England the holiday season is all but over. It’s been short and difficult.
Now with autumn upon us, it’s hard to fathom out where this crazy year has been taking us and how fast it’s gone by — just as well, perhaps.
One of the things I have been musing upon is the name autumn, a borrowing from French, one of many thousands of French words in the English language. The older I get, the more I prefer the Stateside term ‘fall’, it is so much more expressive and, well, native.
Either way, it’s never been more important to get out and about in the fresh air when you can, especially on a glorious autumn, or fall, day.
Copyright Francis Barker 2020
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