Monday, 24 September 2012

Lady of the roses

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This entombed lady, and the chaplet / wreath of roses about her head, is nearly always the first item to draw the attention of the visito...
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Saturday, 22 September 2012

Wallpapers inspired by Stafford

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The High House Wallpaper company has an interesting, Staffordshire-angled genesis. Named after the Ancient High House , an old Tudor b...
Thursday, 20 September 2012

Animals damage cars

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It's a shame that I couldn't take a 360-degree shot of this site, as the village in which these two posts are found (Boundary, ne...
Tuesday, 18 September 2012

Devil thwarted - by pyramid

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Pyramid-style mausolea aren't unusual, but this one (in Rodney Street, Liverpool) carries a tale. It is said that William MacKenzie...
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Saturday, 15 September 2012

Harvest skies

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It's harvest time, of grass for silage (winter feed for cattle) as well as crops; and as the cutting & baling machines go along they...
Thursday, 13 September 2012

Do You Feel It Too?

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I like public art, and the weirder the better. Something finely-fashioned and placed into our daily environment, no matter how odd, throws a...
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Tuesday, 11 September 2012

Carved and trapped in stone

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This carved face seems to me to be trapped in the very stone from which it emerges. The closed eyes and the strands of now dried-up vegetati...
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Monday, 10 September 2012

Yoxall is top in the east

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The winner of this year's Best Kept Village in East Staffordshire is Yoxall, which I passed through the other day. Just like in any ty...
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Saturday, 8 September 2012

Wetton takes in the heat

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We're now in a minor heatwave apparently, which is a fairly ironic thought as the rain has been with us at least every second day thr...
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Thursday, 6 September 2012

Inspired (not) street name

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This road-name sign makes me laugh… You can just see the city-planners - seated round a table at the end of a long day where they have bee...
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