Uttlesford
Plough Sunday is alive and well in Thaxted!
Wednesday 19 January 2022
Always first to the draw, we gave you plenty of advance notice of Thaxted’s Plough Sunday service… and what an event it was, as our star man Gordon Ridgewell demonstrates with these photographs. He tells us the story: “It wasn’t the Red Arrows attracting the crowds at Thaxted on Sunday but a Tractor Drive-By. “Some […] Read more >
Moon musings
Monday 17 January 2022
Nothing we can add to Gordon Ridgewell’s ponderings… “Look at the size of that! “When I pulled back the curtains this morning, I just had to get my camera. The distance of the moon from Earth is currently 404,516 kilometres. It was 07.58 and when I checked on sunrise time it is as exactly the […] Read more >
Deer, deer! Gordon takes his photographic opportunity
Monday 3 January 2022
Does anything escape the magic eye of Gordon Ridgewell? He shares with us: “I had a ride round the lanes at Littlebury Green and Strethall this morning and a few deer ran across the road, so I stopped and opened the car window. “About 30 of them were gathered just in the field, so I […] Read more >
Blooming roses must mean… Happy New Year!
Saturday 1 January 2022
These are of course strange days… in so many ways. Photographer Gordon Ridgewell took a walk round his Littlebury garden and saw these roses in bloom – we’re talking December 30! It’s probably fair to say that most of us would welcome a return to some kind of normality in 2022. Happy New Year from […] Read more >
A trio of treats…
Friday 10 December 2021
It’s the end of the week, which means it’s time for a Gordon Ridgewell treat of three pictures for the price of one! And there is of course a wry commentary from the man himself… “Even the seagulls have gone to Plan B. Perhaps there are no free fish and chips at the seaside in […] Read more >
Nature shines through whatever the weather
Wednesday 1 December 2021
Driving along B1383 near Audley End House on a damp and misty morning I just had to park up and get a few pics. This is normally quite a dark stretch of road when the leaves are out. It was overcast but bright, so I was able to record all the colour and detail that […] Read more >
Make a date for Plough Sunday service at Thaxted
Thursday 25 November 2021
We like to be ahead of the game at CPRE Essex, so here’s advance warning of a special event early next year… Plough Sunday is the traditional English celebration of the start of the agricultural year – it generally involves the bringing of a ploughshare (cutting blade) into a church, where there will be prayers […] Read more >
A time to remember…
Wednesday 10 November 2021
With Remembrance Day tomorrow (Thursday, November 11), here are two highly appropriate images from photographer Gordon Ridgewell. “These community poppies at Littlebury in 2018 made an impressive display,” said Gordon. The other picture comes from the Essex-Cambridgeshire border. “I recently visited Hadstock church for IWM Memorials. I have been contributing to the site for a […] Read more >
‘Eco’ development convinces council… but not village residents
Thursday 4 November 2021
Angry villagers have said they will “never accept” what is being described as an eco-housing estate despite its approval by the local authority. Uttlesford District Council has backed the 89-unit development in Newport by Trivselhus UK; the properties will apparently have electric charging points and triple-glazing… hence the ‘eco’ tag. Some councillors criticised the request […] Read more >
Sweet success for all things sugary
Friday 22 October 2021
Gordon Ridgewell is clearly a man for all seasons, as he demonstrates in his latest photographic contribution. “I had a ride out in the lovely autumn sunshine and found lots of sugar beet waiting for lorries and drivers to collect to transport to the sugar factory at Bury St Edmunds. “That’s about 30 miles, so it’s […] Read more >