The Mottisfont Angel

I came across this mural while visiting Mottisfont , the mural is a mosaic and made in the corner of  what was part of the old priory chapel. The Priory & Chapel was converted into a home during Tudor times and parts of the chapel can be seen.

  The whole mosaic

 

 This part looks like it could have been tricky to do

 

The angel watching over Mottisfont

Taking part in Monday Mural

Sky at Mottisfont

Mottisfont Abbey on a Monday Morning

 

Mottisfont Abbey is owned by the National Trust. 

Taking Part in Skywatch Friday

Apple Crumble

With Cream

Steam Rally

One of the things I do love seeing is a steam engine and in my area we are lucky to have a few steam rallys. One local one is called the Stoke Row steam Rally which I have visited in the past. This year I got my wife to go along with me to see what was going on.








One of the first things we saw was this steam lorry and engine

followed by this engine which was huge

There were the scale side engines like these two

along with this one

I've seen this in operation before where they saw a tree trunk into planks

the engine drives the saw with a belt

this was a cutie

one of the showmans engines

and a local one to me

What I did not show in the fist photo was the line of trucks the contractor had. Impressive to see that many. I'll show more from the show next week.

Taking part in Our World Tuesday

Rotherfield Murals

These are a few more murals from Fairmile Hospital I came across on the walls of the old Rotherfield Ward . I was interested in looking at the building because my father had once worked there  though I have to admit I doubt it looked like that when he worked in the place. You can see more in the link. Soon after the photos were taken the place was torn down and new housing now sits on the there.

 Made to look like a picture

  Quite a tropical scene

 Bit of an Irish theme going on here

 Tropical island and boat

A little bit of sunshine to brighten the day.

Taking Part in Monday Mural

 

Clava Sky

The sky near the hamlet of Clava in Wales

  Looking out from the churchyard path

The road leads back to Glascwm

The view fron near Clava Farm

Dinosaur at Diamond

Science Up Close

Brill On The Hill

A while ago my wife and I took a Hot Air Balloon flight over Oxfordshire, one of the places we passed was Brill. Earlier this month we had the chance to visit. I might add it was the place we ended up as the place we wanted to visit was closed. We had been told Brill was a nice little village so we had high expectations.

We could see this windmill from the hot air balloon

This was an impressive wisteria

Same street looking along it

The postbox was nothing unusual other than needing a coat of paint but the stamp machine by it was special, you don't get them any more

another of the streets in Brill

Most of the streets looked similar though the overcast clouds made it dreary, by now my high expectations had dampened severely 

The stone on the building below the round window says Police Court 1871

So no doubt it was the police station as well

Think this is the main street through Brill, not sure the cloud helped but the place looks miserable

Methodist chapel

This was erected to Sir Edmund Verney Bart for his devotion to the welfare of Brill in 1910

Main street  through Brill which we went down but found only one village shop

The green triangle and war memorial, a lot of villages seem to have these green triangles in them

looking across the green to one of the village roads which I think takes you to the church

I like the entrance on thins house which has the look of an old hotel or inn, The rose growing adds to the place

Last look at the windmill we parked near before leaving Brill on the Hill. The one thing that struck me about Brill was the lack of shops and only one pub I could see. Not unusual now a days  but the place seemed devoid of anything interesting and there was no coffee or tea shops to go in which made it worse. Not a place I would visit again.

Taking part in Our World Tuesday

Trees & Wildflowers

A quick walk round walk round where I work showed the wildflowers growing well and the saplings reacing for the sky

 huge dasys

and a more formal area