Giving it a Miss

 

Blogger does not seem to be bothered about sorting updating the reading list the so I wonder why I bother writing them, I'm giving it a miss till I see they have sorted it. Don't seem to stop the AI bots crawling over my blogs though.

 

Abingdon

 

A few photos I took in Abingdon the other week 

Looking downstream towards St Helens church

St Helen from West St Helens Street

 St Helen from St Helens Wharf

 This is St Helens Wharf

Ducks and geese on the slipway nearby

Back up the Thames to the bridge

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Thames at Abingdon

 

Only one photo this week from my trip to Abingdon taken from wharf road looking towards the bridge.

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Like a few other bloggers I cannot comment on other people’s blogs for some reason, not even my own. Hope it is sorted soon

St Mary Kentchurch

 

This week the Church Explorer visits St Mary Kentchurch which I passed on the way to Garway so stopped off on the way back unfortunately the church was locked so I took photos of the church and churchyard

 

Hanging around

 

 Finally managed tobget back to our caravan in Wales after all the heat for a couple of days

On the way in I noticed a sign saying BCC parking, I wondered what it meant and looked it up to find it was a paragliding competition 

 

 

High on the thermals

Floating on air

 Turning around

So my wife and I sat down outside after setting up our caravan and watched what was going on

The photos were taken with mu compact zoom so may be a little out of focus 

The parafoils were everywhere

all different colours 

High up on the thermals 

This guy just came into land

Sat floating around

Another coming into land

they turned one way then another

This guy landing had a group of kids running after him

Colours were really vibrant 

There were also a few hang gliders 

 This guy flew past landing in the field behind.

 

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St Michael, Garway

 

This week the Church Explorer visits St Michael Garway. St Michael is the Templar church with an interesting history and the church I had wanted to visit on my last tour of the area but just found it one too far. 

  

Hot sunset

 

A sunset after one of the hot days we had in June

Looking out of the bathroom window 

West past the chimneys 

 

Outside from my drive to the sunset

 

Northwest

 

West over the allotments

East from the bedroom window 

I have been blogging for just over 14 years now though this one is just coming up 14 years, I have never attained that meany followers and was pleased my blog got to 1.000,000 views but then noticed that I was getting some serious hits getting up to nearly 2.6 million views in a short time with nearly 200000 last month. I had over 2600 posts to troll through. The advent of AI has given them free rein to troll my blogs so I have now implemented a few changes to who can view and on top of that deleted over 2000 posts. The photos are all stored on my laptop any way so the post are not missed, I've been cutting down to once or twice a week to post now and may well give up sometime. The last two months of the hot weather was worse than going through Covid for us. If I take a break for a while I hope you will understand.

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Excitement in the Village

 

Since the main road past the village has been closed due to new pipes going in for Gas the village has become a bit of a rat run in that there are more cars passing through and emergency services.

Today I hear a lot of them going past and after seeing a fire engine and police car go through I thought the worst in that there was a field fire nearby, after going off for a nosy this fire engine came past

The field fire theory went out the window when I say the engines parked up near the station, rumor went around it was a fire there

Police cars parked up with a fire engine in the station

 

Did not look like a fire though. Another rumor some had been hit by a train.

It's bad enough along this road with commuters parking cars but the fire engines did not help. Outcome was it turned out there was someone wandering around by the track who had mental problems and was detained under the mental health act thankfully not injured.

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St Deny Northmoor

 

This week the Church Explorer visits St Denny Northmoor to revisit this beautiful church and because it was only a few miles along the road from the last church

 

Heat wave

 

If you have not heard we are going through dry spell in the UK they you do now. Some photos I took around the village showing the effects 

 This was in June

Into July

Wheat field waiting harvest

 

Thames at Wallingford in July

Note the dry grass

 Splash park and swimming pool, yes it used to be a paddling pool

The Allotments 

People are watering the crops

Some even have little helpers

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