Mois : avril 2016

Hangin’ ‘Round

rambling ratz

The grey squirrel was clinging grimly on to the peanut feeder as it swirled in the wind, looking for all the world as though it were trying to escape from the squirrel’s unwanted advances. I was reminded of this song by the late, great Lou Reed.

Oh, but you keep hangin’ round me
And I’m not so glad you found me
You’re still doing things that I gave up years ago
Ho-ho-ho-ho, you keep hangin’ round me
And I’m not so glad you found me
You’re still doing things that I gave up years ago
Hangin’ round
Hangin’ round, that’s all you’re doing baby

Lou Reed

Photo of grey squirrel on peanut feeder

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Eignbrook Church

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The church that I mentioned in « Backlit Clouds« , nestling between two pubs (bars) with the flowering cherry tree, is Eignbrook Church.Photo of Eignbrook Church

It is a Grade II listed building. Here are the details according to British Listed Buildings:

Mid C19. Yellow brick with dressed stone plinth, and
red brick to rear; Welsh slate gable roof. Dominant tripartite
window with cinquefoils, ringed shafts and lattice-leaded
lights under polychrome stone arches, and stone-coped
pediment, over buttressed porch with Corinthian pilasters to
moulded polychrome arch; oak doors in moulded arch; to right,
entrance with cinquefoil rose window, over, in projecting wing
with hipped roof; to left, entrance, to tower with light,
ashlar detailing and clerestory to spire, with further lights
to left side. Body of Church has 5, 2-light stone mullion
windows, with lattice-leaded glazing, under brick relieving
arches. To rear, apse with trefoil lights in stone arches,
under trefoil rose-window…

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