A new book about Radbod worth a look. Great to see others are also making the connection between Frisian expansion and fortress Heimenberg near Rhenen, further upstream along the Rhine! See our blog post: Don’t Believe Everything They Say About Sweet Cunera --> frisiacoasttrail.blog/2022/09/30/d...

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October, I leave you to the North Sea’s grey folding, to your salt-wet mornings, and gulls scrawled on the wind, to the salt on the pier slats, and the long shore where light thinned to pewter.

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'Shovelling for Pips,' (1917) in Howard Veal's painting refers to the Coorong or Goolwa cockle, a small clam-like shellfish. Veal studied under Max Meldrum, whose interest in tonal painting was a lasting influence, even though he did flirt for a time with abstraction.

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For #FindsFriday the bell recovered from Hedeby harbour in Schleswig-Holstein, possibly from Ansgar's original 9th century church - it is believed to be the oldest church bell from Northern Europe. #medievalsky

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We were passing, me and Roxie the geodog. It would have been rude not to visit.

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