St James RC Church Reading

Last visit by the Church Explorer this year is to a church I used to go to while at Scholl next door, St James. A nice church that brough back many memories for me

This is my last blog for this year so Mery Christmas & Happy New year

Santa is on the way

Morning View

My last view of Fforest Fields for this year on cold winter morrning

 Well worth the effort of going up the hill

That's it for this year I hope to be back in the new year with more Skywatch photos, till then Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

Last Walk up the Hill

We paid our last visit to Wales for this year and took a final walk up the hillside while the weather was good, the night before had been very windy with heavy rain though we went off not expecting to see much other than a lot of wet ground

 The sheep did not seem bothered with us walking past

 This is a before and after shot of a gully, back in May it was bone dry now water runs freely down hill again

 Making little waterfalls on the way down

Further along near the view point is where we came across a problem
A tree had been blown over across the path

It was where the Fungus a took photos of a few months earlier

It had come down pulling over a couple more making the whole lot quite precarious looking

We went down to the view point to get past, lucky that was undamaged

Looking back it looked a mess

Near the bottom of the hill I noticed another casualty, an old tree had been blown over. We went off back to the caravan for a cup of tea and get ready to go home.

 Come back on Friday & I will show you what it was like from the Viewpoint on that day. That's it from me for this year, hopefully I will be back for more in the new year, till then

Merry Christmas & Happy New year 

Sky Toll

Not someting I would normaly take a photo of but this is the M4 toll in Wales as you come off the Prince of Wales bridge. It closes in December so after that it will be free to use the bridge. I will be going a different way that weekend so to miss the work removeing them and the jams it will cause. Enjoy the blue sky you see over the Toll

I won't miss doing this as it can queue back a couple of miles at times waiting to go through

Happy Skywatch

Gnomes abound

Station Sky

 The other week when I went out for a walk to visit a carpenter I took some photos of an old barn that had been demolished, whiel on the way back I saw a wonderfull sky of the Railway Station

 Looking across the field towards the station

Fluffy Clouds float in the sky

Happy Skywatch

Singing Raindeer

More development

While waiting for the bus home from Wallingford the other day I could not help notice a couple of things happening in the town.

 This pile of rubble you see was Wallingford Police station. It was closed and sold off as part of cost saving. 

 This is what it used to look like back in 2010 and then it was part time. When I was a youngster it was fully manned and had a complement of police that patrolled the Town and outlying villages. I wonder where the government is going with this because it does not seem right to me, we need more police not less

 So into Town and this area had been cleared, all I can tell you was there used to be derelict barn over near the red barrier in the distance. I suspect all this will be redeveloped

I'll finish with this. The building used to be the Westminster Bank Or Nat West as it was latterly known. A couple of months ago it closed due to cost cutting and on-line banking (which I do not have or trust) It now leave three Banks in Wallingford and a lot of unhappy customers of Nat West. I wonder how many moved banks over this. I now await to see what will happen to this building.

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