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So we are being more hopeful this year, it's been dry most of the month so far, touch wood. Touch Wood is a strange expression which has been around in various forms for so long that most people But just say "touch wood" and everything will be fine. ancestors who believed in animism, which is the belief that spirits inhabit inanimate objects like wood

A special feature is the "screen to the clouds", consisting of white tracery surrounding multi-coloured This section is surrounded by side rooms to obviate traffic noise. These rooms are used for various meetings and by various groups. A three-bedroomed flat forms the roof of the covered car park. The floor is deep brown wood block; the dais of the church is carpeted in olive green.

The main coast road is just to the right, the other side of the "Road Closed" sign, and carries a lot Until that very short length of road, only about 100 metres long, was built by US forces during World It derives as you might expect from the method of sprinkling pepper lightly over food. Devon lanes are surely the Marines of the road network, all flat top and short back and sides. So instead of "The End" or "Fin" I draw this mostly incoherent tale to a "Road Closed".

manor at Norton and the parish church at Townstal before falling steeply along what are now Church Road He promoted the First Carriage Road out of Dartmouth, The Market, the Mail Packet Station and Railway Travel along the coast was far more efficient than travel by land along routes with poor quality roads A road with a maximum width of 5 feet was designed for horses not carts, and certainly not Range Rovers

February 2021- Where we live just off the main coast road but in the lee of the Prawle peninsula, we We love going east but since New Year that main road has been completely closed, to repair a major landslide Because this is a tourist hotspot in summer, all major road repairs that cause closures happen in the This road is the only bus route. But yesterday the road reopened so we could get to the coast road again.

Originally published on Photoblog by Gethin Thomas SEPTEMBER. 01, 2020 And I didn't even see these until I edited the photo in Affinity. Couldn't believe the detail. I was pointing almost into the sun and the interior was just total black. It was the stone wall I was interested in. But really it was the timber interior that made the shot. Funny story about the camera too. I bought it in San Francisco about 12 years ago, Canon Power Shot A2000 IS. I think it may have been $300 US. Fantastic little camera and it has followed me around all over the world. Then last year on holiday I dropped it onto a concrete floor and that was it Kaput. I was so disappointed as it was just perfect for travel. So I decided to Google a modern equivalent as a replacement. After sifting through reviews and search results, the very same camera came up on Ebay, £19.95 including postage. I thought it must be a scam right? But I was prepared to risk less than £20. It turned up a day later and was absolutely immaculate, better than my old one, not a mark on it. It didn't even look like it had ever been used. Has to be one of the best bargains ever.

230 metres (750 ft) long building was designed by architect, James Roberts as part of the Inner Ring Road Completed in 1962 the building originally named the Ringway Centre was the first part of the Inner Ring Road Even the iconic Selfridges store, below, which made it to Microsoft Windows 7 desk top screen image with , police evacuated all pubs and businesses in Birmingham city centre and commandeered all available rooms third bomb, concealed inside two plastic bags, was found in the doorway of a Barclays Bank on Hagley Road

However, as you can see from this photo on top of the car park roof, right in the centre of the city, The altar-table would have disgraced the sleeping room of any servant. Close to the pulpit is the entrance to the rood staircase, part of the stairs remain, but the upper doorway The rood loft was a type of mezzanine floor above the chancel, long ago removed, probably in Tudor times , with a modest covered way over the street, of stone posts and a pitched, lead roof.

This was on my photo search for thatched figures on roofs. Well, as aerial as you can get from the road that runs along the cliffs at Strete Gate. On good days you have to be there by 10.30 at least. The kinks in the road reflect major rebuilding phases when the road was washed away in storms. Comestible- an item of food.

Originally published on Photoblog by Gethin Thomas JULY. 13, 2020 Or to give them their full title Prefabricated Housing. In Birmingham, England there still remains a row of seventeen 1940s’ Phoenix design prefabs. The Grade II listed Phoenix prefab bungalows were designed and manufactured by John Laing, McAlpine and Henry Boot, as part of a consignment of 2,428 prefabs supplied to the Ministry of Works under the Temporary Housing Programme during and after the Second World War. In the war about 250,000 homes were destroyed and two million more were badly damaged. These temporary homes were only expected to be in use for ten years but 70 years on they are still in use. There are no other known surviving Phoenix prefabs still lived in which makes these extra special. All but one of the prefabs are owned by Birmingham City Council. I'll leave you to guess which one. Back in 2014, Birmingham Conservation Trust became involved and commissioned an Options Appraisal on behalf of the City Council to look at the potential for the Trust to take on one or more Prefabs to run as a museum and holiday lets.

of the Smith family, the visitors were confronted by the main hall, panelled in English oak, with a screen are wood-blocked. and motor house, are near Princetown road lodge. Wikipedia The ornate ceiling of the former Dining Room. The Elizabethan style fireplace in the former Dining Room.

Originally published on Photoblog by Gethin Thomas OCTOBER. 07, 2020 [63-365] 7th. October 2020- "West Country thatchers have been making straw figures for centuries, a tradition that can be traced back to the dollies placed on hayricks. These were used to identify the owner and deter foraging birds – and at one time were also intended to ward off evil spirits and witches. The descendants of these old talismans are now proudly mounted on some of the most exclusive country properties. Traditionally straw finials were made of tightly twisted wheat; now they are usually encased in protective wire netting. As the wheat decays, the straw body collapses and is blown to pieces by the wind. Left behind are empty shells: shadowy outlines, hovering above the rooftops like ghosts." (The Guardian) All of these examples are in one tiny hamlet, Stokenham in the South Hams.