Might as well carry on the theme this week and show some different sky view points
Just outside the pavilion
When the daffodils are out they make a beautiful display
They also make a good subject to photograph
With their bright yellow coloring
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Daffodils are really blooming here at the moment, you cannot go anywhere in the village with out seeing them in flower so here are a few for you to look at
On the roadside
The school nature reserve
On the bridge embankment
This week the Church Explorer visits St Mary the Virgin the first of four churches in Buckinghamshire. This one came up with some nice surprises and a Historic connection to the Charge of the Light Brigade.
12th February started out quite dreary
The daffodils brightened the morning up
The evening turned out much better
The sunset quite spectacular
With bright hues after it had gone down
The clouds looked to be rolling in
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This week the Church Explorer visits Christ Church Cathedral Oxford a place I have long wanted to visit and finally made the time to do so
This will be a memory for some one who reads this and might make them smile with all the bad weather going on over the pond there.
This is an old roman road that runs through Cholsey on it's way past Dorchester which is the other side of the horizon
Just after I took the last photo I noticed a clump of daffodils growing
I had taken the dog out for a walk along a different route leading to this place known as Silly Bridge. If your wondering why the name well back when the buiilt the railway the locals used to take their cattle and sheep to graze on the common land on the other side. The railway did not want to build it but the locals insisted, in the end they got their way. Not long after the enclosures act cam in and the local landowners grabbed the common land and the locals lost the right to take their stock over the bridge. It just leads to the fields on the other side. Mind you they also built a lunatic asylum a mile away and it was a favorite place to go and jump off so that cold also be where the name came from.
That's the railway below now electrified
That;s what it looks like by the bridge, no way do you survive that little jump
Nice juicy sloes the birds have yet to eat
The track leading to Silly Bridge
And back to the village
Nearer the village, just ahead was a place we called the pit and the kids used to play in, it was an old chalk quarry, it was filled in many years ago more is the shame. I might add there was also a WWII Horsa Glider that was nearby and a lady mad into a house, after she died it was moved off and restored
End of the walk and back to the village
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This week the Church Explorer makes a return visit St Nicholas Rotherfield Greys to have a look around this wonderful church and the impressive Knollys tomb
Friday 13th I popped into Wallingford and while I waited for the bus which was about an half hour wait I went out for a quick walk.
The Thames was in flood and the seat was in the water meaning you would get your feet wet if you sat on it
The water was flowing freely under the bridge, still 5ft lower that the high of 2024
The phone box is near the bridge, normally now they are used for other purposes but this one still has a phone in I did not check if it worked
The high street was shut off so unlucky if you wanted to go along it.
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The church Explorer visits All Saints Rotherfield Peppard, a revisit to this lovely little church as I happened to be nearby.
I know everyone goes to Stone Henge but one place that people visit and is not as well know is Avebury Stone Circle, fact is it's bigger and I think does line up with Stone Henge. |The photos were taken back in 2014 when I visited with my wife and reminds me I would like to go again
It is well worth walking around the whole site as you can get up and personal with the stones
You can walk around the outer ring ditch
One of the trees growing in the stone circle near the village
The village of Avebury is right in the middle of the stone circle
Three of the large stones
They are all different shapes and sizes
Stitch photo of the circle looking towards Avebury
And one from the opposite side of the village
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