Roses in my Garden

My wife & I went to Mottisfont the other week to see the roses there. Unfortunately many had gone over and others had not come out. Back in my garden I was waiting for most of ours to come out in flower. Now they have started so here are a few of them

This one is called Veichenblau a rambler that I have growing up a obilsk and over a BBQ shelter

This one is called a Californica one of  my wife's favourites and one she managed to save because it nearly died after we had built an extension and had to move it,

This is  one of two Standard Roses on our patio

Morning mist one the bees love

This beautiful ping one has center space on our patio Garden Border

This beautiful yellow one looked like this in the moring

Later in the day it looked like this

Blue for you coming out nicely

Taking Part in Our World Tuesday

All Saints Brightwalton

This week the Church Explorer takes you to All Saints Brightwalton and the last of my Churches in West Berkshire for a while, next week we head off to Herefordshire

Hospital Sky

I'll finish the week with some more photo's from round  Fair Mile showing the sky with puffy clouds behind.

 This looks towards the back of the old hospital years ago you would have seen a nurses accommodation block in front and the occupational therapy over to the right of me

 The huge fork marks were you might find the allotments which are in the distance to the left. Over on the right you would have found a football pitch many years ago

 This looks to the North side of the Chapel and I doubt the scene has changed much since it was built

 This is the way you would have gone to the boilerhouse years ago, just beside the car you see is a weighbridge. If you walked left along the wall you come to the Hospital Mortuary, It's a house now

 The courtyard around the side of the boilerhouse where the coal was stored. I've been up the top of the chimney as well

I will leave you with my favourite shot of the day. The photos were all taken on my iPhone and a few moments after I got home they uploaded to Google photos. Moments later it had Stylised the photo. if you want to see more from the place then visit my blog Forgotten Fairmile.

Happy Skywatch

Ducklings

Hospital Walk

There are times when I struggle to find what to post on Our World Tuesday but usually I manage to find something, at the moment I have a enough to choose from. Today I will show a place that took up a fare bit of my time a few years ago out of which came a blog called Forgotten Fairmile. I took a walk around the place a couple of weeks ago for some new photos. These are a few of the ones I took and with some of them you will find a link taking you to the blog about the place. The places used to be Fair Mile Hospital and was a mental hospital where my parents used to work

 The main administration block, in my blog I called it The Oval after the central lawn you see. The frontage was used in an episode of Midsummer Murders

This is another place which used to be the male airing courts where the male patients  were allowed to walk around in the fresh air The blog was called the Hermitage Lawn. The one thing I noticed was the tree that was here has been cut down

This is Faringdon ward and was where the female patients were looked after, on the right is the airing courts where they were allowed to go out and walk you can see the blog which I called The Faringdon Lawn

 This is a view over towards the Great Hall, on the left is where Basildon and Caversham wards used to be

This is the old Chapel which was used up to a few years before the hospital closed  I have to admit I could have cried when I saw the state it had got after all the years empty. Now it's future is still unknown.

Last on the list today is the Boilerhouse a place where my friends father used to work. This was the entrance to the building. If you have time visit the links and have a look at how the places have changed. The Forgotten Fairmile blog in limbo at the moment and is updated from time to time though I do note there are a few of blogs I can still write on the place.

Taking part in Our World Tuseday

St Andrew's Chaddleworth

This week the Church Explorer takes you to St Andrew's Chaddleworth a gem of a church in West Berkshire, one which is well advised to visit if you are nearby.

Plane Sky

Sat on the patio one evening I noticed the moon shining above me and planes flying through the sky, I thought it would be good to see if I could get one flying past the moon

 The ultimate would be to get one over the moon

Not to be, the one below was the nearest

The next evening I managed a good shot of the moon

and one of a British Airways plane flying past

 These two left a kiss

I missed the best one which flew right across moon. Next time.

Happy Skywatch

RIP Niki Lauda

The Four Arches

The Moulsford Viaduct also known locally as the Four Arches, the photo below was taken over ten years ago on the  South Stoke side of the river I have not been back since to update the photo. The tow path here is part of the Ridgeway walk from Goring to Mongewell where you leave the river.

This is the approach on the Cholsey side of the river again it was taken
over ten years ago and is where yo follow the Thames path

Under the arch it would have looked like this

On my recent visit it looks like this

Between the arches you see this, the photo one the left was taken from on top of the base you see,

Since it was taken 

Electric pylons have been added

 This was taken from the river meadow

Which is over to the left of the fence, Ten years ago this was the Thames path

The fence is still there but so is a lot of green fence put up by Network Rail making it a little difficult to get another shot from the meadow which is owned by a school

There is even more green fence stopping you getting to the river here. You can see the electrification pylons in the photo. At least when Network Rail put in the railway electrification they were sympathetic to the bridge. If you follow the link at the beginning of the blog you fill find more information on Wikipedia.

Taking Part in Our World Tuesday

St Mary Fawley

This week the church explorer takes you to St Mary Fawley a Victorian church in Berkshire