Collingbourne Ducas

 

Some more photos taken way back when in 2008 0f a village called  Collingbourne Ducas where my wife went dog training, while this was going on I went out for a walk around the village to see what the place was like.

Coming out to the main road looking right and a thatched house, to me it looked like it was an old pub converted, the house to the left looks newer and may have been built in the carpark of the place

The other way another thatched house

Small industrial estate

An actual pub the blue lion, it is still there but under a different name now

 An old mile stone showing it is 10 miles to Marlboro and 10 to Andover

St Andrews the village church

 The barn was old and from the look of the metalwork on the end has a structural problem

 I will leave you with this collage of thatched photos the sculptures you find on the roofs of the thatched houses, the one on the top right I think was a crown

Take care

St Michael Barford St Michael

 

This week the church explorer visits St Michael Barford St Michael a beautiful old church with some superb beak head carvings around the doorway

January Dawn

 

I have been lucky with dawn skys so far this year they have been quite something to see, normally the sky is dull and cloudy but on this day I ought it just as it was glow on the horizon 

 

The bedroom always gives a good vista over the houses the glow of the sunrise

 

 

With the apple tree 

 

Out of the bathroom

 

 

Back out the window looking through the apple tree

Happy Skywatch

The changeing of Hissing Sid

 

You might have seen  hissing Sid in Wordless Wednesday so I had better give some background to him. Sid the remains of a branch that formed an Ivy Hedge along the road where I live. Last year the parish council got their handyman to cut the hedge and clear the ivy out of it. Problem was the ivy had killed off most of the hedge so I find it hard to believe it will regenerate. The ivy was also home to countless hedge sparrows. After the hedge was cut bad an ivy branch was left that looked like a snake. 

A week or so later I walked past and some one had added a pair of eyes, so I called it Hissing Sid

 Not happy with that a while later he had been given a kitted coat with a arm hole no less, mind you he needed it as it had been frosty

 

So the today I noticed Sid had been out for the evening as he was wearing bow tie. I look forward to see what happens next.

Take Care

St Mary Broughton

 

This week the Church Explorer visits St Mary Broughton the church has a painted tomb effigy of a knight dating to 1306, you may also have noticed I published the blog in error a few weeks back.