Tag Archives: Chilterns

Looking At The View

Posted on February 19, 2013 by Michael Clarke

I was walking to the station a few days ago — the long way round because the footpath over the fields is too muddy (see the melting snow in the photo) and noticed a wonderful sunrise emerging over the tops … Continue reading →

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‘The Geiger Counter of Olympomania is Going to Go Zoink Off the Scale’

Posted on July 27, 2012 by Michael Clarke

…as Boris Johnson inimitably said last night in Hyde Park — before his brilliant put-down of Mitt Romney. Well, my Olympomania Geiger counter has been building up to Zoink steadily over the last few weeks but Boris’s ‘Are we ready?’ speech seems … Continue reading →

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Two Novel Views of England Within 24 Hours

Posted on May 26, 2012 by Michael Clarke

Here are a couple of contrasting photos taken in the last eighteen hours of the different aspects of England that feature in the novel. The first is one of the photos I took on the fascinating Love Art London graffiti … Continue reading →

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Countrywise

Posted on June 7, 2011 by Michael Clarke

On ITV as I write: Next programme - 7th June, The Chilterns The team travels to the Chilterns, an area steeped in ancient crafts and traditions, which is less than 50 miles from the centre of London. Paul Heiney meets the … Continue reading →

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Trouble in Causton

Posted on March 15, 2011 by Michael Clarke

Brian True-May, the producer and co-creator of Midsomer Murders has been suspended by ITV over remarks in an interview in the Radio Times, which has just popped through my letterbox, in which he says ‘It’s not British, it’s very English. We are … Continue reading →

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‘Peace on Earth and Goodwill To All Men’

Posted on December 31, 2010 by Michael Clarke

Continuing on the theme of end of year greetings and the real Christmas message (not the ‘buy buy buy’ one that Amazon stopped imparting once it realised it couldn’t deliver its goods) here’s a very apt scene that I took … Continue reading →

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Angelic Countryside

Posted on July 20, 2010 by Michael Clarke

I went for a longish walk on Friday afternoon between a few villages that may influence ‘The Angel’ and took a few photos. This one was immediately after a heavy, thundery shower had passed over a few minutes before. The … Continue reading →

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Red Kites and the Liminal Zone

Posted on June 18, 2010 by Michael Clarke

I went to one of the Bucks Open Studios events this afternoon at St. Dunstan’s Church, Monks Risborough. There was some really fascinating stuff there — a lady had done the most stunning watercolours of (of all things) parsnips and … Continue reading →

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