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

Ramsden

 

Some photos from a village I was in the other week when I visited a church there 

 

Typical Cotswold village

 

The village war memorial with the church in the background

 

Going back out of the village which should take you to Witney

 

I have heard of the road before now

 

Which leads out of the village and the way I was going and I can tel you once you are through the trees you see it is as straight as a die 

But before I went I stopped off here for a coffee 

Take Care

All Saints Shorthampton

 

This week the church Explorer visits All Saints Shorthampton  a small church with box pews and 15th century wall paintings

Sunflower Sky

 

Sorry I'm a bit late to the party this week as I have been away in Wales where I got more photos for Skywatch but this week I took these nearer home about 100 yards away in the allotments. I will leave the photos to speak for themselves 

Happy Skywatch

Agatha's Birthday

It was Agatha Christie's Birthday on Sunday, easy to remember as my son was born on that day as well. Agatha lived just outside Wallingford at Winterbrook which at the time was in the parish of Cholsey where she is also buried. The statue of her you see was unveiled last year and sits over looking the Kinecroft in Wallingford or Crinny as it is locally known in front of Flint House where Wallingford Museum has a permanent display on her life. No doubt she walked around here at times but then looking at her statue you would have passed her in the street and not known who she was I dare say I did when I used to go to walling ford when I was younger. Now she has no end of visitors getting their photo taken and having selfies taken.

Happy Birthday Agatha

St Nicholas Chadlington

 

 This week the Church Explorer visits St Nicholas Chadlington a church which was a pleasure to visit with some beautiful stained glass 

Random Skys

 I sort of run out of skywatch photos so thought I would show three random ones I took

This was a lucky shot, I spotted the kite in the tree so ran indoors to get my long lens and get a photo out the bathroom window. I just took the shot as it flew off, the nearest I have got of one taking off from the tree

 

 

The entrance to the caravan site I go to, the sign with the mural is new so I took a photo and got the clouds over the hillside 

 On the way back home we went over the Severn Bridge  this is the old M4 bridge which linked England to Wales.

Happy Skywatch

Didcot Railway Centre

 

As promised some more photos from around Didcot Railway Center

The is the view of the place you get when you come in, the track here leads to that water tower 

Water tower where they fill the steam engines

Rebuilt station waiting room, the people were waiting for  a train ride

Reproduction of the Iron Duke 

 

This is the one thing I wanted to see, its part of Brunel's Atmospheric Railway. It was a lot bigger than I thought it would be

Saddle tank train taking people for rides

Stationery saddle tank train 

The sign is from a local station of the now demolished Didcot to Newbury line. The station building this came from is still there. Ironically in a place called Beacham Close named after the person who closed down the line. Can't think why the council would call it after some one who cut them off  

Inside the engine shed

Wider view of the engine shed

One of the trains outside the engine shed

That's it for now, I'll sow more another time. I hope to go aback again to get more photos

All Saints Spelsbury

 

 

This week the church explorer visits All Saints Spelsbury a church with some superb monuments to see.