Feet together/poles apart ...

Having taken Abiraterone for two weeks now I can report that I feel better generally but I still have some discomfort in my groin ... so I bought myself some walking poles to make walking easier.

They were just £15, hardly top of the range, but they should take some pressure off my hips and pelvis etc.

In the event, just this afternoon, I walked for just 45 minutes, quite slowly from Alport up to the packhorse bridge near Youlgreave ...


 

I'm not a big fan of walking poles but at least they enabled me to get out into the countryside. This may be as good as it gets unless my pelvis improves ... somehow.

We'll see.

The other news is that the Abiraterone hasn't affected my kidneys or potassium levels etc. The pharmacist declared yesterday that the results of Tuesday's bloodtest were "absolutely fine".

Finally my compact digital camera has gone kaput so I'm going to have to replace it or stick with my SLR which is bigger and more cumbersome. The two photos above were taken with my phone !

It will be interesting to see how my groin/pelvis feels during the night and in the morning. It is surprising how you don't realise as you turn over in bed how your body 'corkscrews' on your pelvis  ... until you have a problem with your pelvis. Ouch.

A Farm Journal ~ from the 1st to the 15th November 1867

My great great great uncle John Bayliff Bowman lived at Summer Hill, near Monyash in the County of Derby.

 

The Bowman family, who were Quakers, had three farms, One Ash Grange [which John Bayliff Bowman often referred to as O.A.], Cales and Summer Hill [which he usually referred to as S.Hill or S.H.]

In this photo John is fourth from the left. My great great grandparents, Ebenezer and Hannah Bowman, are the third and fourth adults from the right. John and Ebenezer were brothers and their parents are the elderly couple in the middle, Henry and Mary Bowman.

"A Farm Journal" continues :~

 

7 day 2nd of 11 Mon[nth] - Fine finish[e]d plough[in]g N[ethe]r Intake

 

2 - 4th Fine day put tups to ewes 177 in all began turnip pitting Jesse Bonsall* & Wm. Hadfield - Tho[ma]s & Charles work the horses harrow[in]g fallows etc began plough[in]g Watricle 2 ton Rape cake from P[arsley] Hay for milk cows 2 lb p[e]r day

 

5 - 7 Fine plough[in]g & turnip pitting Eb[eneze]r Howitt took his young horses - Martha A to Middleton Very fine weather 

 

up to 5 - 14 wet day got on well with turnip pitting & plough[in]g

 

6 - 15 Fine 

 

 

In the 1871 Census Return there was a Jesse Bonsall aged 33 [described as a "laborer" (sic)]  living with his wife Ann also 33 and his three sons Richard [10], Joseph [9] and Thomas William [5]. 

 

A Farm Journal ~ from the 17th to the 30th September 1867

My great great great uncle John Bayliff Bowman lived at Summer Hill, near Monyash in the County of Derby.

The Bowman family, who were Quakers, had three farms, One Ash Grange [which John Bayliff Bowman often referred to as O.A.], Cales and Summer Hill [which he usually referred to as S.Hill or S.H.]

In this photo John is fourth from the left. My great great grandparents, Ebenezer and Hannah Bowman, are the third and fourth adults from the right. John and Ebenezer were brothers and their parents are the elderly couple in the middle, Henry and Mary Bowman.

"A Farm Journal"continues :~

 

3 - 17 Fine but very cold N.E. Wind Self to Nott[ingha]m Q[uarterly] M[eeting] & back - very interesting occasion - there were B. Braithwaite, Ewd Smith, R. Fry, Jon[athan] Grubb of Y[early] M[eeting] Committee to meeting of ministers & Elders who gave us some excellent advice & spoke to the Binghamites we must not judge one another but do all we can to help each other by word & deed to continue on our heavenward journey & endeavour to act as Christians

 

5 - 19 Fine Mary A came - Thrashed rye winnow[e]d etc at corn in Watricle 

 

6 - 20 began N[ethe]r Intake corn

 

2 - 23 Very wet to fetch Dr. after breakfast & mother from Ashford to S.A. sold Widdowson 6 [?] brown cows 13 5/- J Hemsley - Shelton to O.A. bo[ugh]t some calves

 

3 - 24 Fine day Baby born about 4 oclock this morn[in]g - a very fine lad

 

4 - 25 Fine corn cutting 45 Irish heifers came £6 10/- each

 

5 - 26 Fine

 

6 - 27 Fine cutt[in]g corn to 3 - 30 

 

S.A. was John Bayliff Bowman's wife, Sarah Ann [formerly Armitage]. It seems therefore that on the 24th September 1867 their first child was born.

 

Chatsworth ~ two more sculptures ... and a wooden seat.

I'm just about finished with the photographs I took at Chatsworth in September of this year. 

There are some sculptures that are permanent and there are some seats that are probably less though. 

Here are two examples of the former and one of the latter ...

 



 

Quite a contrast between the three pieces but I rather like them all though my particular favourite is the one in the middle.

An excellent piece of design ...

Whilst wandering around the garden at Chatsworth a couple of months ago I discovered the most impressive bench rather tucked away from the paths.

If you look at it straight on you can see straight through it ...

Initially I didn't latch on to what it was. Then I got nearer and thought what an interesting feature ...



Eventually I realised this is a bench or seat [I can be slow] ...



If I had had more time I would have taken more photographs, it was just so pleasing to the eye ...



One of the best things about it is that it's great to sit upon.

It was designed by Corin Mellor.

I think it's more interesting than some of the sculptures I've seen in the grounds at Chatsworth.

A Farm Journal ~ from the 16th to the 30th June 1867

My great great great uncle John Bayliff Bowman lived at Summer Hill, near Monyash in the County of Derby.

The Bowman family, who were Quakers, had three farms, One Ash Grange [which John Bayliff Bowman often referred to as O.A.], Cales and Summer Hill [which he usually referred to as S.Hill or S.H.]

In this photo John is fourth from the left. My great great grandparents, Ebenezer and Hannah Bowman, are the third and fourth adults from the right. John and Ebenezer were brothers and their parents are the elderly couple in the middle, Henry and Mary Bowman.

"A Farm Journal"continues :~

1 - 16 Fine

2 - 17 Ditto dull but warmer finish[e]d all turnip sowing

3 - 18 Fine day pulling thistles out of corn

4 - 19 showery ditto

5 - 20 Fine ditto

6 - 21 Fine shearing hogs

7 - 22 Fine day warm  shearing hogs fin[ishe]d Lane lot pull[in]g thistles - things doing pretty well 2 ch a day at each place

1 - 23 Fine

2 - 24 Ditto B[akewe]ll market open for Cattle a lot of all sorts & dear sheep dull sale - bo[ugh]t 10 store pigs 28/-

3 - 25 Fine shearing good clip of wool Irish thinning swedes

4 - 26 Ditto

5 - 27 Ditto

6 - 28 Ditto

7 - 29 Ditto Fin[ishe]d shearing

1 - 30 Ditto Irish came

I have no idea what "2 ch" refers to on the 22nd June 1867.  

Laura Ellen Bacon ... at Chatsworth

I've posted some photographs of Laura Ellen Bacon's work before. Here are a few more ...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Beyond 'Beyond Limits' ...

Here are a few more features I saw when I was at Chatsworth a couple of months ago.

The first is a fan of a Rolls Royce jet engine ...

 

... it needs a duster running round it !

After the Conservative Wall I included in a recent blog here's a more modern greenhouse built in 1970 ...



Here's the same greenhouse beside a more traditional greenhouse on the right and the Conservative Wall in the background ...



After discovering the gravestone in memory of the tame red deer earlier in the day I then noticed another gravestone erected in memory of Smut, Grandpa ... and others ...



Smut and Grandpa etc appear to have lived for 12 to 15 years so I assume they are dogs.

Then on its own nearby was a stone in memory of Portly who was born in 1951 and died in 1962 ...

 

Why Portly was buried on his or her own I don't know. What Portly was I don't know.

A bit of a mish-mash of photographs but it gives you an idea as to the variety in the garden at Chatsworth. You could easily spend an hour or two looking around. They're worth a visit but even more so when the Beyond Limits exhibition is on. Then you can spend a couple of hours just looking at the sculptures in that exhibition.

The Conservative Wall !

The Conservative Wall is at Chatsworth ...

... and I can do no better than show you the information panel [in Chatsworth blue rather than Conservative blue presumably] that explains why it is so called.

An unnamed sculpture ... at Chatsworth

Still on the topic of what else I saw at Chatsworth [other than Barry Flanagan's sculptures] I'm moving on to an unusual piece.

 There was no name on it or near it and having done a search in Google I could find out nothing about it. Perhaps I will have to buy the Chatsworth guidebook.

It's a slightly unattractive piece to me almost as though all the meat has been boiled off the head of an ox and then the skull has been rammed on a post ...

It's a strong piece though. Heavy and uncompromising.

It's stuck between two ends of a hedge behind a seat ...



That may well be the best position for it from a Health and Safety aspect, of course.

War Horse ... at Chatsworth

In my last blog about Chatsworth I mentioned there were a number of things that caught my eye whilst I was there, other than Barry Flanagan's sculptures.

One of them was Dame Elisabeth Frink's War Horse. 

It is sited near the restaurant and it can be touched and children can sit on it and have their photograph taken, apparently.

There is more information about the sculpture here ...

  

I rather like it. It's strong and self assured.

A memorial to a deer ... at Chatsworth

One thing that made my September visit to Chatsworth more enjoyable was all the different things I saw whilst I was there. I did find quite a few things I had never seen before ... including this memorial stone ... 

I had never seen this memorial until September of this year which means I have been going for 30 years and missed it. Now how did I manage that ? I suppose it could be a new memorial but it doesn't look like it does it.

I recall seeing a very tame deer when I visted Chatsworth back in the 1970s so I suppose it could well have been Sarah. I even have some photos somewhere. I will have to try and dig them out ...

In the meantime I just have the memorial stone to show you ~ albeit a rather unusual memorial stone.

Chatsworth ~ Beyond Limits ~ 2012/15 ...

... and so to the sound of much cheering, sighs of relief and the odd muttered "Thank God that's it ..." we reach the last sculpture in 'Beyond Limits' at Chatsworth.

Fortunately we end with a good one, Nijinski Hare ...

It has been sited so that Chatsworth House provides the backdrop ... 

 

... and this provides a great contrast ...

 

I do feel though that it looks as though Nijinski Hare is playing football rather than ballet dancing ...



The slight haziness in the photo above was due to the water vapour drifting across from the Emperor Fountain over my right shoulder.

If you want to visit 'Beyond Limits' this year you'd better hurry ~ it ends tomorrow, Sunday, the 28th October 2012.

I end with Nijinski Hare getting in a cross from the wing dancing off into the autumn night.

 

 I'm not quite finished though. Overall I found this year's 'Beyond Limits' the most disappointing since I first started to view them. Much as I love Barry Flanagan's work you can have too much of a good thing and this year I had too much of Barry's work. Lets hope that next year's 'Beyond Limits' has a little more variety.

Chatsworth ~ Beyond Limits ~ 2012/14 ...

Size matters ! At least when it comes to Barry Flanagan's hares ...

We're down to the penultimate exhibit ~ 'Large Nijinski on Anvil Point' ... 

 

... and I love this ...

I said it was large didn't I ...

 

Here's a question, are these bronze sculptures solid ?

I think they got the positioning of this sculpture right too ~ at the far end of the Canal Pond. At the other end is the house itself ...

 

There this Nijinski Hare stands, balanced on an anvil point ...

 

... dancing ...

 

Excellent.

Chatsworth ~ Beyond Limits ~ 2012/13 ...

A change from the hares ! 

Exhibit No. 13 is Barry Flanagan's 'Bronze Horse' ....

Once again though the 'line that mustn't be crossed' gets in the way and spoils some of the photos ...



Just think how much better the photograph above would have been without the chain and metal pegs.

The horse isn't quite life sized ...



... or even lifelike ...



Even so I rather like this horse ...



You could almost imagine him springing to life.

Chatsworth ~ Beyond Limits ~ 2012/12 ...

'Drummer' is exhibit number 12 in the 'Beyond Limits' exhibition at Chatsworth ...

 

... and with this sculpture a bit more mischief is injected into the exhibition ...



... there's a bit more menace ...



You wouldn't want to mess with this particular hare ...



... would you ?