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Posted 1 day 10 hours ago
As I sat in the grounds of ruined St Oswald's Priory in Gloucester last month, I pondered its age. Founded by Æthelflæd, ‘the Lady of the Mercians’ and daughter of Alfred the Great, along with her husband Æthelred, Lord of Mercia, the two lay buried somewhere in its grounds. Those big wide arches, above, are from the ninth-century Saxon construction.
Posted 2 days 10 hours ago
This little fellow flew into my French doors and was stunned. He soon roused himself and sat in a plant pot to recover. Eventually, he flew off to carry on the business of a blue tit.
Posted 2 days 10 hours ago
St James’ Church at Tebay in Cumbria is a peculiar little church. From without, it seems a little fanciful with its tower’s conical roof as though a long-haired damsel should peer out of one of its windows, and it has an apse at the west end rather than east, where the communion table sits. This is a good example of that peculiarly Victorian phenomenon, the Railway Church, and dating from 1880.
Posted 3 days 10 hours ago
This Lamprocapnos spectabilis or Bleeding-heart I observed growing in the grounds of Hoghton Tower in Lancashire. It is an attractive little thing, though its name is melancholic, perhaps alluding to unrequited love or intensive suffering.
The Gardenerstips website observes:
The plant is a natural woodland plant so needs protection from intense sun.
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