Excellent!

But reassuring of them to let you know you'll make it through those years

Fascinating, thank you!

Though it has been suggested that this particular ring of stones may actually have been created a decade after Hardy’s involvement at the churchyard?

I do like trees that take root in awkward places

Very sensible, no doubt, not to plant a new “Hardy” tree amidst the gravestones in St Pancras Old Churchyard when the original fell in 2022 (rather in better growing conditions nearby). But also rather prosaic not to.

Graffiti, St Mary de Haura, New Shoreham

Graffiti drawings of a building, St Mary de Haura, New Shoreham

Graffiti initials, St Mary de Haura, New Shoreham

Graffiti, St Mary de Haura, New Shoreham

Thank you. Of course, the look is truly wonderful even now!
I saw the notice about those plans and wondered how injurious displacement of the choir pews might be?

St Mary Abchurch, for #FontsOnFriday with stacking plastic chairs.

Font by William Kempster, brother of Christopher, mason for the church’s rebuilding by Wren. You can’t have too many Christophers.

Font cover with the gospel writers by William Emmett. Its counterweight in the vestry.

#London

Brixton

Inside the front door of George Bernard Shaw’s house in Hertfordshire. The door is painted white and has a glazed panel. On a rail there is a heavy woven curtain by Morris and Company in the Peacock and Dragon pattern.

Inside the modest front door of Shaw’s Corner - George Bernard Shaw’s house in Hertfordshire - with a Morris and Company ‘Peacock and Dragon’ woolen curtain to keep out draughts.

#AdoorableThursday

#TinyLion

St Mary Abchurch

#London

The Basilica of St Ursula in Cologne was built on the ruins of an ancient Roman cemetery, and the walls of its Golden Chamber are covered with the carefully arranged bones of its occupants, alleged to be St Ursula and her 11,000 Virgins.

Swan, West Wickham

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In contrast, the Romanesque font at St Aposteln, Cologne, is not going to be floating aloft any time soon.
#FontsNotOnFriday #FontsOnFriday

In the old days of course, Cromwell’s lot rather fond of ecclesiastical target practice, if stories are to be believed, and I’m sure could have musketballed a blue zero.

Exactly what played in my head

Blood red balloon,
St Aposteln, Cologne.

Window of a closed shop displaying curios including stuffed crocodile, and a rocking horse.

Croc Monsieur

The extraordinary Johannes XXIII church in Cologne (1968) designed by sculptor Josef Rikus with architect Heinz Buchmann.

#brutalism #concrete

Crustaceaned Monument

Sculpture of a winged car on top of a tall building in Cologne

You can’t park there mate

Do you recall visiting Dundrennan Abbey?

Homelands, Fordham, SAT NAV CB7 5NG - OFFERS IN EXCESS of £700,000 YouTube video by Gavin Human - Cambridge Estate Agent

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I expect they’d have called you.

Roaring tree, London

#ThickTrunkTuesday

A glance of amused surprise in the Grosvenor Chapel, London.
#MemorialsMonday #Betjeman

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Quills (2000) & Luther (2003) as a couple..