Eric Wark

Pin Mill, near Ipswich in Suffolk

The Merry Ploughman Deepest darkest Suffolk, and a bric-a-brac market! Despite the eye-watering prices, there are still treasures to be found. Two postcards catch my eye. The first is this ploughman, stooped from year…

Norfolk Day! So here's a piece I wrote some years back about a Norfolk postcard that I found on a bric-a-brac stall. It's all about Hilton Spanton Forster, and his cousin Norman Breeze. If nothing else, worth looking at for the picture of Norman on the back of a bullock

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The All-Night Garage (at the End of the World) Rummaging through the boxes in the loft on the hunt for something or other, I come across a drawing, by me, of the room I had in Aberdeen just after I left home. In ink, it’s a scratchy affai…

So I went up into the loft, in search of something or other, and found this old drawing, made by me of my room in halls way back in 1990.

I've written about it, and the experience of leaving home in Sussex and moving a zillion miles away to Aberdeen.

You'll like it!

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The All-Night Garage (at the End of the World) Rummaging through the boxes in the loft on the hunt for something or other, I come across a drawing, by me, of the room I had in Aberdeen just after I left home. In ink, it’s a scratchy affai…

So I went up into the loft, in search of something or other, and found this old drawing, made by me of my room in halls way back in 1990.

I've written about it, and the experience of leaving home in Sussex and moving a zillion miles away to Aberdeen.

You'll like it!

ericwark.com/2025/07/19/t...

Epiphany January and, a day late for Epiphany, a deep orange winter sun sits low on the horizon and sets the world ablaze in golden light. Buildings and trees glow, gilded by the dawn. I decide to catch som…

Hello all! I'm a late arrival at the Bluesky party - hope I haven't missed anything?

I've just written my first piece in a year. It's about a muddy walk in the Fens, just north of Ely. Let me know what you think, and feel free to share!

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