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Thomas found a balloon amongst our science supplies and wanted to play with it. Well, Molly and Marcus soon caught on and, of course, wanted their own so off to the store we went.
Safely home several hours and several chorus' of happy birthday later, we had our own unbirthday party, complete with balloons.
It was a good thing. (Wait, is that trademarked my Martha? Oh well...)
Amongst the new houses, the ancient church of St James the Great defies the passage of centuries. Originally a chapel-of-ease attached to Bishop's Cleeve it is a small Norman building of c.1170 of two cells with a bell-turret over the chancel arch. The north door has its original ironwork with terminals styled as animal heads, which mirrors the early C13 border that frames a Life of St James, that can be seen inside. The chancel has Perpendicular windows, but retains its Norman piscina. The chancel arch is C13, but is seated on the older Norman responds. Five successive painting schemes cover the nave walls which appear as a confusing palimpsest of fractured images. They were discovered late in the 19th century and restored in 1953-5 by Clive Rouse, who found work from c.1190 to 1723. The most significant is a cycle of paintings which illustrate the life of St James of Compostela, c.1190-1220 which is unique in England. There are twenty-eight scenes, however, their fragmentary survival makes them almost impossible to identify. The decorative border features entwined beasts and foliage with links to the stylised depictions found at Kilpeck. It seems that the choice of the life of St James the Great might be connected to pilgrims travelling to Bristol on their way to Compostela. The font is Norman and decorated with arches, the pulpit Jacobean and the communion rail C17.