Colin Howey
@colinhowey.bsky.social
Once upon a time birds would land on a gentle little boy. Then life intervened and the boy hid behind a blizzard of fists and rage. He thought he'd be safe back there - but it was a lonely, desolate space. Now, I aspire to be a Gentle Man...
Long Row, north Norwich: a narrow lane connecting Waterloo Road with Angel Road: when my girls were tots, I'd tell them that we were walking along the back of a sleeping crocodile, so we had to go quiet and gently or else we might wake it up. It never did stir, so we must have trod lightly
December 5, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Long Row, north Norwich: a narrow lane connecting Waterloo Road with Angel Road: when my girls were tots, I'd tell them that we were walking along the back of a sleeping crocodile, so we had to go quiet and gently or else we might wake it up. It never did stir, so we must have trod lightly
After a long break from publishing anything on my heritage-inspired blog, here is a piece about Kenninghall Church, south Norfolk: open.substack.com/pub/colinhow...
November 29, 2025 at 3:04 PM
After a long break from publishing anything on my heritage-inspired blog, here is a piece about Kenninghall Church, south Norfolk: open.substack.com/pub/colinhow...
October 29, 2025 at 10:51 PM
October 25, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Itteringham, St Mary, north Norfolk
October 20, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Itteringham, St Mary, north Norfolk
September 9, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Still Life moment at the Wield & Downland Living Museum: open.substack.com/pub/colinhow... #mindfulness #photography #heritage #wellbeing
Weald & Downland Living Museum, Sussex
Still Life
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September 8, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Still Life moment at the Wield & Downland Living Museum: open.substack.com/pub/colinhow... #mindfulness #photography #heritage #wellbeing
Visiting South Elmham Old Minster, Suffolk: open.substack.com/pub/colinhow... #heritage #history #suffolk #historiclandscape
South Elmham Old Minster, Suffolk
An Extraordinary Monument
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September 7, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Visiting South Elmham Old Minster, Suffolk: open.substack.com/pub/colinhow... #heritage #history #suffolk #historiclandscape
Stratton Strawless, St Margaret, Norfolk - one to return to time and time again...
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Stratton Strawless, St Margaret
Stratton Strawless, St Margaret, north Norfolk is a church I return to more often than any other.
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August 31, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Stratton Strawless, St Margaret, Norfolk - one to return to time and time again...
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Nowadays, this is how I choose to get high:
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Norwich Castle Museum Battlements
Seeing for yourself
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August 28, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Nowadays, this is how I choose to get high:
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My latest blog post focuses on Fring Church, west Norfolk: open.substack.com/pub/colinhow...
Fring, All Saints, Norfolk
Cradle to grave
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August 26, 2025 at 9:43 AM
My latest blog post focuses on Fring Church, west Norfolk: open.substack.com/pub/colinhow...
Focusing in on some 17thC embroidery within Strangers' Hall Museum, Norwich
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Strangers' Hall Museum, Norwich
Perceptual horizons and retrospection
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August 23, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Focusing in on some 17thC embroidery within Strangers' Hall Museum, Norwich
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There is something very special about a well-tended urban walled garden. Here is a post about the enchanting green 'oasis' at Strangers' Hall, Norwich: open.substack.com/pub/colinhow... #gardens #wellbeing #museums
Strangers' Hall Museum
The Serenity of an Urban Walled Garden
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August 14, 2025 at 7:37 PM
There is something very special about a well-tended urban walled garden. Here is a post about the enchanting green 'oasis' at Strangers' Hall, Norwich: open.substack.com/pub/colinhow... #gardens #wellbeing #museums
Here are some of my thoughts about the newly refurbished Norwich Castle Keep: open.substack.com/pub/colinhow...
Norwich Castle Keep Re-opening
A Royal Palace Re-born
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August 8, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Here are some of my thoughts about the newly refurbished Norwich Castle Keep: open.substack.com/pub/colinhow...
A short post about a window that left me wide-eyed with wonder at Briningham, St Maurice, Norfolk: open.substack.com/pub/colinhow...
Briningham, St Maurice, Norfolk
A Window Full of Wonder
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July 31, 2025 at 9:44 PM
A short post about a window that left me wide-eyed with wonder at Briningham, St Maurice, Norfolk: open.substack.com/pub/colinhow...
Well, isn't this a shimmering beauty of a late medieval porch at Pulham St Mary, St Mary, south Norfolk
July 30, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Well, isn't this a shimmering beauty of a late medieval porch at Pulham St Mary, St Mary, south Norfolk
Momento mori skulls on the early 17thC Suckling family monuments within St Andrew's Church, Norwich
July 28, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Momento mori skulls on the early 17thC Suckling family monuments within St Andrew's Church, Norwich
Light! East Mersea, Essex, St Edmund
July 17, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Light! East Mersea, Essex, St Edmund
New post on my 'Fallible Flâneur' blog inspired by a visit to Upwell Church, west Norfolk: open.substack.com/pub/colinhow... #angels #churches #warmwelcomes
Upwell, St Peter, Norfolk
Eye-to-Eye with Angels
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July 7, 2025 at 1:52 PM
New post on my 'Fallible Flâneur' blog inspired by a visit to Upwell Church, west Norfolk: open.substack.com/pub/colinhow... #angels #churches #warmwelcomes