Fancy a brew?

This golden hop was a present from a friend when we moved here. It's a great climber that covers walls with alacrity.  Some gardeners (like Dick) would call it a thug.

We pull armfulls out every year.

It has the advantage of being bright and cheerful.

I noticed this afternoon that, not only had it survived another year, but it has produced hops. They looked lovely in the last of the sun.

Tired out today so did very little at home.

Hexham Photo Group tonight with John Kippin speaking about the work he will/may use in his new book, a retrospective of his photographic career. 


John Kippin is an artist and photographer who lives and works in the north-east of England and who works largely within the broad context of landscape. Many of his works integrate texts and images in ways that challenge the realist paradigm that traditionally underpins a range of documentary and realist practices.
John Kippin's work pays allegiance to the conventions and traditions of pictorial landscape whilst foregrounding issues within contemporary culture and politics.

I find this sort of conceptual work hard to understand at times, but I enjoyed the slow pace of the lecture. We had a lot of time to view every image.

Perhaps I'm missing something........