Wednesday, May 03, 2006

st.laurance's church, hawkhurst, kent

a curiosity ... all the church windows were blown out when a german flying bomb exploded in the churchyard in 1944 ... the restoration was celebrated in 1957 & so this church has a posh set of big nearly new windows, though i didn't find them attractive as the main theme seemed to be heraldic ... oh, the agonies of empire ... and the figures, which i haven't bothered to photograph, seemed to lack animation & emotion, neither of which any religion can really do without

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mysterious heraldry at st. laurance's church, hawkhurst

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the battersea elephant, again !

he's still there, or at least he was at about a quarter to four !

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the battersea elephant, and again

the light was just a little better & the elephant was still there so i took some more pictures this afternoon

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?animatronic? elephant

i couldn't get close but managed to get this view from the nearby railway bridge across four lanes of traffic

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more battersea elephant stuff ..

if you blow this one up you can see some of the hydraulics behind his trunk

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more battersea puppetry ...

this ?animatronic? girl must be about 25 feet tall

they were just dismantling her when i arrived at the roadside opposite the power station this afternoon

sorry the picture is fuzzy, it's only a little camera & she was about three hundred yards away


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Sunday, April 30, 2006

Wednesday, April 26, 2006

horse & hounds, at the top end of grovelye lane

the past is another country, they do things differently there

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sussex violet

a month ago in la centenera in guadalajara, i met an old man with a cheeky grin, who walked in to a bar on a saturday afternoon chewing the stalk of a violet

i experimented with this one this morning, but it didn't taste of much

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war memorial at burwash

i shall have to go back and take another picture

there is a brass plate in a kind of recess behind a little door on the south face

more names are remembered, including two brothers, lamplighters in the village for fifty years

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in burwash, a very posh new window ...




designed by meg lawrence of kington, radnorshire


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... on the north side at burwash church ...

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... but who was C.S.W, d.1997 ?

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"move him in to the sun ... "




much later, kipling wrote these few lines ...

A SON

My son was killed while laughing at some jest. I would I knew

What it was, and it might serve me in a time when jests are few.

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no more cycling in the dark !

a glimmer of daylight over the river

i had to rest the camera on top of a lifebelt stand, it was the only flat surface around but of course it was tilted

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Thursday, April 20, 2006

wick lane, bow ... due for demolition

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traffic ... and joined-up thinking

i was reading the stickers in a queue of cars in bow, east london

fathers 4 justice have been in the news lately and one is tempted to sympathise distantly with anyone cut off from their offspring

however ... the other stickers are worth looking at

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... what do the "bad boy club" and "bunny" stickers say ...

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... about his suitability for the responsibilities of marriage & parenthood ?

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