Time Changes Nothing
Nov. 5th, 2025 12:57 pmIt is either the reward or the price for being a parish councillor (or both) that ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
durham_rambler gets invited to all sort of stuff, and his default mode is to accept invitations. I don't always accompany him, but I did go last week to the opening of an exhibition of "Graphic Paintings" by Derek Slater, with the title "Time Changes Nothing" (there's a gallery of this work on the artist's website).
I used my phone to take some pictures, and they aren't great. Perversely, although this is disappointing, and I hope I will get better at this, I also take a degree of pleasure from it: I'm not planning to give up my camera. Anyway, here's a flavour of the event. The garlanded structure in the foreground gives away that the venue is within 'Bertie’s Play House', an under-used unit in the shopping centre, where management are being very creative about filling empty shops with interesting stuff.
( Yes, but what about the pictures? )
I also talked to the Parish Clerk, which is always fun, and all the more so right now as we had two things to discuss. First was the progress of his discussions of the Folk Festival Formerly Known as Hartlepool, henceforward the Furham Folk Festival - these are going well, apparently, and the Parish will offer support, and everyone is very pleased with everyone else: not something you hear very often, so hooray for that!
The other was progress on installing a blue plaque for Sam Green, which is also making good progress. Much of the organisation is out of my hands, for which I am grateful, though if Adam (the - very persuasice - Parish Clerk) has his way, I may end up playing a larger part than I had intended.
And yesterday Adam and his plaquqe fitter came along and screwed the plaque to the front of the house. I had assumed it would be hidden by some sort of curtain, but apparently that only goes up at the last minute, so for the time being it is complately visible.
durham_rambler gets invited to all sort of stuff, and his default mode is to accept invitations. I don't always accompany him, but I did go last week to the opening of an exhibition of "Graphic Paintings" by Derek Slater, with the title "Time Changes Nothing" (there's a gallery of this work on the artist's website).I used my phone to take some pictures, and they aren't great. Perversely, although this is disappointing, and I hope I will get better at this, I also take a degree of pleasure from it: I'm not planning to give up my camera. Anyway, here's a flavour of the event. The garlanded structure in the foreground gives away that the venue is within 'Bertie’s Play House', an under-used unit in the shopping centre, where management are being very creative about filling empty shops with interesting stuff.
( Yes, but what about the pictures? )
I also talked to the Parish Clerk, which is always fun, and all the more so right now as we had two things to discuss. First was the progress of his discussions of the Folk Festival Formerly Known as Hartlepool, henceforward the Furham Folk Festival - these are going well, apparently, and the Parish will offer support, and everyone is very pleased with everyone else: not something you hear very often, so hooray for that!
The other was progress on installing a blue plaque for Sam Green, which is also making good progress. Much of the organisation is out of my hands, for which I am grateful, though if Adam (the - very persuasice - Parish Clerk) has his way, I may end up playing a larger part than I had intended.
And yesterday Adam and his plaquqe fitter came along and screwed the plaque to the front of the house. I had assumed it would be hidden by some sort of curtain, but apparently that only goes up at the last minute, so for the time being it is complately visible.
