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Autumn is a great time of the year to be out and about in the Essex countryside. The leaves on the trees and in the hedgerows are changing colour to beautiful reds and golds and the light is golden and seems to blow in the wind. Dedham is probably the most famous Essex village, but [...] There’s something quite special about returning to Essex from Kent via the Dartford Crossing at nighttime. The slow moving traffic enables you to marvel at the beauty of the white headlights of the the traffic from the opposite direction queueing over the bridge as they come towards you. We had been in Canterbury for the day, [...] We’ve been going to the NSPCC’s book fair in Colchester for many, many years! In recent years it’s been at the Holmwood House School on Chitt’s Hill, and uses their sports hall to lay out long trestle tables on which 30,000 or so books, jigsaws, and CDs are sold. It can be a bit of a scrum [...] A couple of weeks ago we spent an evening in the old tram depot, watching the Colchester Mercury Theatre’s ‘Depot’. That was a ‘promenade’ show, in which the audience move around the location – which we enjoyed and reported on.
Last night it was more traditional fayre at the Mercury Theatre itself, watching ‘Porridge’. It was produced [...] On Saturday we had a great night out courtesy of the Mercury Theatre Company, celebrating their 10th Anniversary. Our relationship with the Mercury is somewhat longer, as we first went to the Mercury in about 1983. It wasn’t an auspicious start. Having spent three years in Leeds making the most of student nightlife, we were relatively [...] |
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