York

Went to visit one of my longest friends a few weekends back. She has gone north whilst I have gone south. York was an enticing city; I wanted to stay for a whole week. But the focus of the trip was time with my friend, not the city. Perhaps next time...

York Minster:

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Down the River in my friend’s canal boat.

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Their lovely dog. One of a pair.
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Down on the allotments; I loved the profusion of vernacular architecture on display on this enormous allotment site. Sheds, greenhouses, whole plots, all built out of other’s cast offs. All unique within a similar style. In my experience, that kind of thing doesn’t exist ‘down south’, Certainly in Bristol, the council tidied up the allotments and gave each plot a regulation shed so they all look the same. Tidier for sure. Less unique and less interesting; also for sure. Being in the south, we don’t have greenhouses but poly tunnels dahling.

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Late Summer Images

From the time when the sun still shone.

Croquet.

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Buttercups

August-3

Wheat Fields

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July. At Last.

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Dandelion.

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Lytes Cary Manor. The home of one of the seminal English herbal manuscripts; Lytes Herbal.
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Gallery Update

Gallery updated with some new sections and some new images.
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Painswick; village of Pan.

Painswick Rococco Gardens. Highly recommended if ever you get the chance. The area has a surprising history of association and involvement with Pan, from a book written about Pan terrorising the villagers of Painswick (written by a resident), to the construction of a ‘house of Pan’ in nearby woods, as a site of invocations to Pan and neo Pagan rituals by the local gentry in the 1930’s (or thereabouts) and the local church once having, incredibly, a statue of Pan on its tower. The statue is now buried ; whereabouts unknown, after a particularly sour vicar ordered its removal. The associations go deeper still; the village and area seem steeped in Pan worship. Oddly, when I reached my starting point for a walk to visit the site of the old ‘house of Pan’, my iphone was playing a song called ‘we are all Pan’s people’. A good omen I thought.

The Great God Pan himself, in Painswick Gardens.
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The folly tea house.
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The plunge pool.
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Painswick church, 1930’s style.
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Yew walk.
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The onanistic gargoyle.
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