Early

The UEA Broad, Norwich, early last Sunday morning.

The Resting Place of W.G. Sebald

No-one interested in notions of landscape and hauntology can fail to have been influenced in some way by the works of WG 'Max' Sebald. The German emigre's works on wandering - though memory, through Europe, through East Anglia - possess a rare, subtle, and immense power. I was lucky enough to be one of his students at the University of East Anglia at the time of his death, in 2001. This was my own quiet pilgrimage to the site of his burial.

Floodlands

After days of rain, sleet, snow - not to mention the small fact of last year being the UK's wettest on record and leaving much of the ground totally saturated still - the woodland and marshes around the University of East Anglia grounds have flooded quite beautifully.

Arch: Forgotten UEA Bridge

In the woodland grounds of the UEA, somewhere behind the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts. Off a track that mainly seems to be frequented by dogwalkers is this little bridge, curving over what is barely a stream. I think in the summer months this pretty much dries up completely. I couldn't tell you its age or anything about it: at a guess, I'd assume this little site was once part of the grounds of Earlham Hall.

Whatever it is, I like this little arch. Equal part fairytale, equal part romantic.

"And Us Donkeys Wake Up Weary..."

A couple of the beautiful donkeys and Shetland ponies at the Little Tinkers Sanctuary, located next to the University of East Anglia, Norwich.

Nightwatchman

The old scoreboard at the grounds of the UEA Cricket Club.

The Kissing Bridge at UEA

I've always found this small footbridge over the River Yare in the grounds of the UEA to be a cute, strangely romantic structure. I don't really understand architectural style, but it nevertheless seems to me to have a Parisian or Venetian vibe. Anyhow. I don't seem to be entirely alone - the graffiti scratched into the railings, rather than overtly agressive and territorial, is overwhelmingly of the 'X loves Y' variety.

A small plaque nearby informs us that this bridge was presented to the UEA by Atlas Aggregates Ltd in May of 1979.

iCampus

Again trudging around the brutalist structures of the University of East Anglia campus, this time with new artsy-fartsy retro filters on my iPhone camera.