Monday, June 12, 2006

we've been off the air whilst moving ....




... and whilst we were packing, i found the prototype model of my sister V's medal ... she'd first moulded it with chocolate instead of bronze, to see if the cast worked

... and then she'd given me the chocolate, wrapped in gold paper

... it suddenly seemed like a good time to "invoke the spirits" of the ancestors, not that they have ever seemed far away, and so after having owned it for fifteen months, i unwrapped it

... my mother had once told me how, when i was born in August 1949, my father had arrived at the hospital with a box of chocolates, a rarity for most people in the years of post-war rationing

... it was only a few days later, when she brought me home, that he confessed to having used up her own entire chocolate ration for the coming year



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Wednesday, May 24, 2006

hartfield church, sussex

another splendid stained-glass window by the inspirational meg lawrence

see my blog for april 26th 2006 for her window in burwash church

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close up of meg lawrence's stained glass in hartfield church, sussex

aren't they beautiful !

click on the picture to enlarge it and see the delicacy of her drawing

wait another couple of seconds, then click the enlarging icon that appears at the bottom right corner for maximum detail


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detail of meg lawrence's window at hartfield church, sussex

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hartfield church, lots of posh oak

i closed my eyes & wondered about all the ladies who must have polished this church

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village pump at hartfield, sussex

for the first time in my life, i worked the handle of a village pump, & clear water issued forth !

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