So, here I am! In my new house and beautiful new garden with a wonderful new Suffolk beach to explore almost at my doorstep, hence the lack of blogs – for which I apologise. A lot has happened in the world of Laura by The Sea in the past few weeks… My new studio space [...]
I have recently started writing a regular blog for Beside The Seaside (See http://www.besidetheseaholidays.com/blog/) and taking research from my BA Hons degree dissertation on The British Seaside I am writing a regular article to drum up support for a revival in all things from the sea. From Punch and Judy shows on the sands to [...]
Why do so many men fish from the beach near Lowestoft when they catch so little? “They just want to be in a place where they have the world behind them, and before them nothing but emptiness” wrote W G Sebald in his book The Rings of Saturn. In my opinion, when it comes to [...]
This new blog post has come about sooner than I imagined. I was planning on blogging every Sunday during my long cliff top walk with the dog. However, in the light of recent news I just had to write about it… “Donkeys Banned from Cromer Beach”. A mother of three living in the traditional seaside [...]
When asked to write a blog for Beside The Seaside Holidays because of our love of the British seaside I thought what better place to start than at the beginning. We all have fond memories of childhood holidays beside the sea however, the great British seaside used to be a remarkably different place to how [...]