Richard Bell's nature sketchbook since 1998
Happy birthday to Dave, who recently found himself at the sharp end of a charge by the Covenanters. Admittedly they were armed only with traditional muskets and pikes but still a formidable fighting force if they’re hurtling towards you.
My Letts School-Boys Diary, Friday, 16th July 1965:
Trip. Wore jeans and pullover. Set off 9.10 got to Richmond at 10.45. Had lunch over looking Swale. Went round castle. Guide (1/-) got postcard of Richard III. Trip in Dales made 3 miles longer (?) because of road blockage. Developed film
Perhaps after such a long day I should have left developing the film until later but despite the botched job, I’m pleased 58 years later, to have rescued some images from the negatives.
I haven’t visited the castle since, so I think that it’s time to re-read the guidebook and take another look.
My friend Stefaniw appears, slightly solarised, in one of the photographs. We were in the third form and my diary records that the previous day our O-level subjects were decided:
Am taking Art and Physics with Chemistry. I did seascape in art. Read Beowulf. Gave in Maths and Eng. books.
Stef persuaded Mr Axford to let him take all three sciences.
Did Triffids.
Watched Matterhorn Anniversary Climb, M. from U.N.C.L.E
Thursday 15th July 1965
