Nuffield Orthopedic Hospital

 

The  Nuffield Orthopedic Hospital is part of the Oxford Group of Hospitals which are all in Headington and not a great distance from each other. I took my son there for a scan so while he was there I took a walk around to get some photos. I'm useing the blog for SkyWatch Friday as well

As you come in the main entrance this is the first building you see

The main entrance to the hospital

With other parts going back up towards the entrance road

And where you will see this sculpture which is a display of sunflowers

They must have looked stunning when first erected

This I read was where the engineered artificial limbs

Hemophiliac ward, its an older building to the rest of the place

Walking around the place I came across this horse sculpture

 It glowed when you looked from one angle, but as it was towards the sun I could not get a nice view

After the horse I walked back up to where I took the first photo and took this photo of a place you would miss when you drove to the carpark.

Happy Skywatch

St Mary Magdalene Shipon

 

This week the Church  Explorer visits St Mary Magdalene Shipon a return visit to a church I went to during lock down when I found it locked. I have long wanted to return to visit and see inside I finally managed was glad I did

Allotment sky

 

Well I'm still playing catch up from September and will be for s while yet as I like to make sure I have plenty of photos for SkyWatch. These photos were taken around Mid September when I went out for a walk up to the allotments near where I first lived when I bought a house. As usual I made sure there was some nice sky to see

 

This is as you walk in to the allotments from the south entrance on Ilgies Lane

 

The roof you see in the center line of the photos is a few houses up from where I used to live my first house and where we lived when we got married. The allotments here are always well maintained 

 

The houses in this photo were built in the last few years

 

This pumpkin was huge and it is still six weeks to Halloween

 

When I got home I found this fellow looking after my Greenhouse 

Happy SkyWatch

October Colour

 

I know we are now in Autumn and at the beginning of October but my garden still has some colour around to brighten it up. I will let the photos speak for themselves so enjoy

 

Take care

All Saints Marcham

 

This week the church explorer visits All Saints Marcham a church I have visited before but never covered it properly due to my visit just being a fleeting one 

Sky Floods

 

More up to date  with this blog as the photos were only taken last week when I went into Wallingford to see the height of the river Thames. If you saw the photos on Tuesday it would have been a teaser for this one

The River Thames looking dirty from the rain causing the flooding

Wallingford Bridge with blue skys peeking through the clouds

St Peters Church with it's spire that stands out

Wider view of the church and bridge

I'm down on the river bank here looking across the river

Wider shot of the scene

 I looked across the river to the boathouse here took in the seat and thought that is a photo for BBC Weather watch. Next day it was on Oxfordshire Big Picture

Happy SkyWatch

Rain lots of rain

 

I normally would try and post some photos from a couple of week previous but after all the rain we have had in the last week I though I would show some of what happened around where I live.

 

This is Station Road and one of the places that floods in our  village, it most likely has gone down because when it is bad you cannot see the road and I would not be standing on the pavement here

 

The rain gauge I have in my garden shows 5inches, that came down in 24 hours, over the next it went up to 7inches

 

Wallingford Bridge a few  days later, the water is flowing easy, early this year the water was over the first two arches. I'd have been waste deep

People never learn, the narrowboart is leaning against the mooring bollards, if the water gets higher it will be grounded like some one else early this year

 

The river side meadow, this is where people come in the summer to swim in the Thames, early this year it was just water you could see

 

The riverside water park early this year you could not see the swimming pool in the distance let alone the splash pool

The car park is between the trees at least no one left their car there like last time when  all you could see were the roofs

 

It's nowhere near as bad as other places in the country and a lot less than Europe and the Southern States I saw on the news. I can only hope they come through it all

That is enough for today I have to keep some for  SkyWatch

Take Care

St Luke Garford

 

St Luke Garford is a really nice little church hidden behind a farm and one easy to miss as the village is off the A338 from Wantage, it is also one I visited many years ago only to find it looked. This time I went when it was open and met the churchwarden who told me about the church.

Cloud Glow

 

Thursday evening 12th September I noticed this beautiful glow from the setting sun on the clouds

Outside the were glowing from the sun shining on them

Contrasting with the darker clouds

As though the sun was shining under them

Wide view from the bedroom window

Happy Skywatch