366 Photos - 226/366 - Saturday Wanderings

[byslantedlight]

Lovely relaxed morning on Saturday, finishing The Petticoat Men, and then I needed some exercise, so I went to visit this chap. Found him in need of a good trim and shave!

Wandered into Cerne Abbas itself, through lovely cool green. There used to be watervoles along here, a lady stopped to tell me, but they're gone since it was cleaned up and given hard edges...

Popped into the church. Full of old memorial tablets and medieval paintings.

The other windows had rosettes, and this is apparently not a man sticking his tongue out......but a lion - "with its origins in the patriotism that surrounded the 100 Years War" and probably dating from the 14th or 15th century. Huh!

Outside the church, meanwhile... ...and then further along the road - the village pond, complete with a house for the ducks (and I immediately thought of Doyle's pond in Larton, and Bodie getting his students to build one for him!

Cerne Abbey. Mostly destroyed by Henry VIII in the Dissolution, of course.

St Augustine's Well... ...and some of its legends, for anyone interested! I liked that they told us. *g*

Ironically......or perhaps not irony at all, just modern bloody life.

Had a wander around the cemetery. Love the old skull-and-crossbone gravestones. They did rather hammer the death of it all home. Then it was all about god and heaven, and now it's all about people missing each other. Well, it seems to me, as a casual watcher of gravestones. *g*

And then I went home, where the sun was also out.

Very annoyingly, I ended up with a headache (I swear I'd touched nothing dairy!) and went to bed early - then couldn't sleep. Woke up all tropical about 2.30am and when opening a window wasn't enough, popped outside for a moment - to find the skies clear and star-spattered, the Milky Way stretching itself across, and four faint Perseids shooting for me. *g* Still tossed and turned when I went back to bed, but I saw four Perseids. *vbg*

Comments

[gilda-elise.livejournal.com]

You live in the most interesting area, and never seem to run out of places to go. I especially loved the church and abbey. You're making it very hard for me to be patient. 17 days to go! *g*

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

The UK's a bit like that - small enough and dense with history enough that you practically trip over it where ever you are. *g* And ooh - just 17 days - yeay! How's your itinerary?

[gilda-elise.livejournal.com]

Yes, I've noticed that! While going to one site, we'll discover two or three along the way.

I've been meaning to email you. I'll send you the updated itinerary at the same time.

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Cool! *g*