Connect in Westhorpe
It was lovely to meet up with residents in Westhorpe along with the Rural Coffee Caravan and listen to some of the host of things that makes their village so…
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A Community of Writers
Zoom in on a creative writing session with poet Dean Parkin on Tuesday, 3rd November from 10:30 to midday. Join Dean (via Zoom) for a relaxed, informal creative writing session…
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Create #2: The Village Remembered
Think of a place you know or knew well in your village – house, shop, church, park, road or building. Imagine all the memories that the place would have. Here’s…
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Have a Cando Suffolk Day 2020
To celebrate Suffolk Day this Sunday, 21st June, we invited participants to create their own Suffolk Cando and display it in ingenious and eye-catching ways, for others to see and…
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Out and about with The Rural Coffee Caravan
It’s been a great week to start travelling with The Rural Coffee Caravan; from a heat wave in Combs to umbrellas in Peasenhall – it’s been a joy to be…
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Benedictine Abbey Ruins
BENEDICTINE ABBEY RUINS Angel signs and Leylines? St. Michael’s Mount to St Edmundsbury Mary, Raphael, Gabriel & Uriel Cartography beneath our soles. Elle for Suffolk Artlink. Suffolk CANDO Day, 21…
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Millie the Florist
Here’s “Millie the Florist”, on display in Burstall. Millie is made from odds and ends, including a gearbox casing from an old lawnmower for a torso and legs made from…
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The Field Beyond
Lindsay has lived in Beyton for 39 years and moved there from Lincolnshire. She got a job in the nearby middle school while her husband, Andy, still works as a…
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The Clock Above
Tarina from Fressingfield responded to Dean Parkin’s ‘A Picture of Where You Live’ exercise by writing about a memory of a particular autumn afternoon, not long after she had arrived…
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THREE TREES AND OTHER FRIENDS
Paris has lived in the village for 12 years and agrees that Beyton is at its beautiful best in the spring. She also says there’s such a lovely community spirit…
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The Falling Walnut Trees of Beyton
During our creative conversation, while we making a photo of Beyton in words, Lindsay mentioned a fallen walnut tree which she can when she looks out of her window. “It…
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A Picture of Where You Live: a writing and conversation starter by Dean Parkin
Think of a picture of you in your village. It could be a real photograph or somewhere you know well, where you see yourself. It could be a footpath where…
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