On a whim I stopped my car and walked into this church. Like every other medieval church I've been to recently, it was stunning. I almost wish I wasn't a heathen.
People like to complain about the declining standards of written and spoken English as if there was a golden age, but 300 years ago things were far worse. Every church I go in seems to have different spellings of everyday words.
This is Bewl Water - a reservoir on the Sussex-Kent border. It almost looks as if Excalibur should appear out of the water
I have no idea what this antiquated mobile phone (or is it a pager?) is doing in the middle of a wood. It's striking how impotent and pointless technology looks in this setting.
This is a teabag in a holly bush. I don't know why either.
Young love
Spring
Transplant this sign to certain parts of London and I suspect that it would be a little controversial...
On a whim I stopped my car and walked into this church. Like every other medieval church I've been to recently, it was stunning. I almost wish I wasn't a heathen.
People like to complain about the declining standards of written and spoken English as if there was a golden age, but 300 years ago things were far worse. Every church I go in seems to have different spellings of everyday words.
This is Bewl Water - a reservoir on the Sussex-Kent border. It almost looks as if Excalibur should appear out of the water
I have no idea what this antiquated mobile phone (or is it a pager?) is doing in the middle of a wood. It's striking how impotent and pointless technology looks in this setting.
This is a teabag in a holly bush. I don't know why either.
Young love
Spring
Transplant this sign to certain parts of London and I suspect that it would be a little controversial...
Some super shots there. I especially liked the Excalibur one - so atmospheric.
ReplyDeletegreat pics, I love the typo.
ReplyDeleteGreat pics. I remember staying one night in the mid 1970s at the youth hostel in Blackboys. We were a group of eight 16-17yr old schoolgirls hiking(or bussing) from Arundel to Brighton over a few days (on our own too!). The Blackboys YHA was off the beaten track - essentially a timber shack with two dorms (girls and boys) and a cooker. Entertainment was strictly DIY. The memories come flooding back!
ReplyDeleteLove the cones. So that's where they get to. Happy endings ...
ReplyDeleteGreat photos Steerforth - 'Young Love' is bound to be apt for one of the Guardian Weekend magazine photo comps any week now.
ReplyDeleteThe shot of the old phone under ivy could be a cover for The Death of Grass or some other apocalyptic novel.
Funnily enough John, I submitted a photo for tomorrow's edition.
ReplyDeleteOh, I shall look out for that. Don't tell me the theme: Mrs Self and I like to look at the pics and guess the theme without reading the heading. Yep, those weekends are just fun fun fun round our way.
ReplyDeleteTransplant that sign anywhere in America and it would be controversial.
ReplyDeleteIs Steerforth your real name? It is one of the characters in Catcher in the Rye I believe.
Steerforth is a character in 'David Copperfield'.
ReplyDeleteAs for Blackboys, it's a tiny village which is either named after a man from the 1300s called Richard Blakeboy, or refers to the local charcoal industry.
I thought I had the wrong book after I wrote it. Haven't read Copperfield since high school. Maybe I better.
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