Frink’s men

The works I know of by the British sculptor and printmaker Elisabeth Frink were her birds and animals. But visiting the retrospective at Woking’s Lightbox Gallery I realised that I’d pretty much missed the second half of her career.

Desert rats

Churchill was obsessed with Egypt and the North African desert because he could see the link between the war effort, the Suez Canal, the resources of India, and the oil resources that Britain controlled in the Middle East.

Limestone country

The phrase in the guidebook, and the sudden change to the bleaker limestone landscape, reminded me of Auden’s early poems, strongly inflluenced by the former lead-mining area he would walk in in the Pennines.