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This friendly Cocker Spaniel and its owner paid me a visit while I sat soaking up a bit of sun on the banks of Lac Daumesnil, Paris, France.
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This is penny my cocker spaniel. She’s just under 1.5yrs old she is a work dog but she’s a great model when she’s not out there doing her thing!
St Peter and St Paul, Alconbury, Cambridgeshire
I carried on up the busy road, over the hellish A1(M) and into Alconbury. All at once, it was as if I had left East Anglia behind. A large, satisfying village, the village green one side of the High Street which leads up to the church, a huge Midlands church with a proud stone spire. All around it are characterful grotesques and gargoyles. I spoke to a couple of people in the churchyard, and they were very friendly. The church is open every day. You step into a large, stunning jewel of an interior, the nave walls bare stone, the long chancel an exquisite white, empty Dec space with plastered arcading and stone floors. Up above, proud jolly angels looked down as if on holiday from Suffolk and having a good time. This went straight to number three in my Cambs churches Top twenty behind Ickleton and Duxford St John. Rare for me to like such a big church so much.
And now, I headed out of Alconbury on proper, lonely country lanes at last. Finches kept pace with me in the hedgerows, and the land ahead of me began to build into hills on the horizon. I was heading towards the Wolds, that long chain of hills that sets off from Dorset, becomes the Cotswolds in Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire, into Northamptonshire where it is not so well-known but is equally beautiful, before becoming rolling farmland in Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire, eventually crossing the Humber to head out to sea at Flamborough Head.
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A pleasant cycle ride in the Huntingdonshire Wolds, on the brightest, warmest day of the year so far. I set the alarm for 5am and got up to make coffee, have breakfast and see the world grow light. At a quarter to six I cycled down to Ipswich station and caught the 0600 train to Peterborough. Arriving at 0730 I lugged my bike across the long bridge to the far platform to catch the train to Huntingdon, where I arrived at 0800. Huntingdon is on the east coast main line, but this is a small station - the woman inspecting tickets looked at mine in disbelief. "You came from Ipswich this morning? You must have started early!"
I pushed my bike into the High Street and Market Place, and bought provisions for the day. The market was being set up, and few of the shops were open. It was pleasing to walk around a small town getting itself ready for the day when I had already travelled almost a hundred miles. I set out along the ancient Great North Road, the Roman Ermine Street, for a cycle ride in the Wolds. Over the course of the next eight hours I would visit 17 churches, of which I saw the inside of eight. It must be said that most of the others had keyholder notices, but I wanted to get as many churches for my money as possible (£35 for a day return!), and so only went for a key twice. Having said that, it was clear that west Cambridgeshire, the former Huntingdonshire, is not as good for open churches as south Cambridgeshire or east Cambridgeshire. My real goal for the day was Nicholas Ferrar and T S Eliot's Little Gidding, but there would be other delights and surprises in store. It would be a day of stone churches and stone spires, of gargoyles and grotesques, of almost no stained glass at all, medieval or otherwise, except for one fabulous moment. It would be a day of hazy hills and lots of spires off in the distance that brought A E Houseman to mind.
JOE COCKER
Support-act: Matt Simons
10 May 2013
Heineken Music Hall, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Photography: Marco van Rooijen - Copyright, All Rights Reserved!
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Mike Bartlett's play COCK at the Kitchen Theatre in Ithaca, NY. Directed by Margarett Perry
Vince Gatton as John
Nick Hetherington as M
Michelle Luz as W
Daren Kelly as F
Photos by Dave Burbank
Cock-tailed Tyrant - Alectrurus tricolor - Веерохвостый мухолов
Vulnerable (IUCN 3.1)
Serra da Canastra National Park, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, 11\13\2019
Cock Rock Ptarmigan (Lagopus mutus)
Photo taken May 9th 2017 using a Panasonic FZ300 camera. 1/1300 @ f2.8 EV -0.66 ISO 100.
Stopping for a nicotine break I reviewed some images & particularly liked this image which I immediately wrote the Haiku now embedded in it.
Other than a minor crop and adding the text the image is unaltered.
Not as colourful as some of the birds on flickr (you know who you are) but I like em. I have been away from here for ages, family illness and woes but hope to get around all of my usual Flickr people soon.
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