stormy weather over southwark bridge

 

mister butler's lamp

 

a red bull in herefordshire ...

 

... master of all he surveys

 

clodock churchyard lettering (one)

 

clodock churchyard lettering (2)

 

clodock churchyard lettering (3)

The script reads :

How short is life how sure is death Our days alas are few
This mortal life is but a breath; Tis like the morning dew

interior of the church at clodock

 

the vicar of clodock demands cash instead of kind

tucked away in a dark corner of clodock church ... set in stone ... the vicar repudiates the old tithes and the courts award him cash ... he must have been rarther unpopular ... and he can't have been short of cash if he could afford this carving extravaganza

to read the text for yourself, click once on the picture for an enlargement, then again on the enlargement icon when it appears at the bottom right corner

this article has been published subsequently ...

http://www.ewyaslacy.org.uk/doc.php?d=nw_clo_3004

... and furthermore ...

 

... and was this symbol of peace meant to fit on the top ?

 

mavis ferguson-butler, aged ninety-something, but livelier than ever when she sniffs a bookshop

richard booth at hay-on-wye ... books bought anywhere in the world

 

the view toward the brecon beacons from hay common

 

the vale of ewyas

 

the tiny church of saint mary magdalene at capel-y-ffin

 

... in a deep valley ...

 

... shaded in a grove of ancient yew trees

 

madehurst church

madehurst church has unbelievably old bells

when the bell tower was restored it was discovered that the original wooden church tower is encased within the ancient stone tower

 

this is the pub that is right next door to the brewery ... the spreadeagle is across the road