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Que 2022 soit votre année,
Que le bonheur soit votre allié,
Que le sourire soit votre invité,
Et que la joie embellisse vos journées.
Je vous souhaite une belle et merveilleuse année ! »May 2022 be your year,
May happiness be your ally,
May a smile be your guest,
And may joy embellish your days.
I wish you a beautiful and wonderful new year! "
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Face Tattoo: Leven Ink - Hera Face Mask
Crown: IVY - Cursed Crown
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For the curious, clicky types, you can also check out the raw screenshot on my blog, where I'm occasionally leaving small rambles.
They met at the annual Ghosts and Goblins Halloween Ball.
He was handsome, charming and every bit a gentleman.
And she was literally a vision in her flowing gown designed by icm.
It was love at first fright and they sparkled with it.
They pledged each other their hearts and lived happily ever after.
Which for a ghost is a very long time.
Happy Shocktober.
I don't ever give a rat's ass about the official word of anything, Spring starts when the flowers start growing and the buds on the trees start to appear, that is Spring, to say otherwise is assuming one knows better than nature itself, when I hear this - the official start of Spring is such and such a date, I just laugh, walk in nature, she decides for herself when to appear in her own good time, sometimes enthusiastically early, other years fashionably late.
The Blue Grape Hyacinth, as tiny and delicate as they are, made an appearance in the front garden and I was thrilled, I love them, Spring is my favourite time of year, particularly May, but here we are in the middle of April, who cares when as a macro photographer's dream field is abundantly starting to arise.
I hope everyone is well and so as always, thank you! :)
The seed pod of a weedy variety of geranium, I can see why they multiply so well with their spring loaded seeds.
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Not sure why 801228 has been chosen, but it has been embellished to represent 100 years of LNER. On 100s, it's been 100 years since Sheffield United have won a game at Wembley.
801223 plays second fiddle.
Representing the 'old' guard 91124 sits on the far side having run down from Leeds. The 91s were phased out during Covid and replaced by the new Hitachi units, however issues with cracks on the frames have meant a number still survive in service. And long may it continue.
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Herstmonceux Castle, East Sussex
Grade l listed.
List Entry Number: 1272785
Listing NGR: TQ6463810388
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 24/04/2020
TQ 61SW 13/406
HERSTMONCEUX HERSTMONCEUX PARK Herstmonceux Castle, with attached bridges to north and south and causeway with moat retaining walls to west.
GV I Castle/country house. c1441 (when licence to crenellate was granted) for Sir Roger Fiennes; further embellished mid C16 for Baroness and Lord Dacre; altered mid-late C17 for Lord Dacre; part demolished 1776-1777 for Robert Hare; restored and rebuilt early C20, mostly 1911-1912, for Lieutenant Colonel Claude Lowther and 1930s for Sir Paul Latham.
Red brick in English bond with some blue header diaper work; stone dressings; plain tile roofs. Square on plan with inner courtyard, this originally divided into four courts and containing Great Hall, but these and the internal walls of the castle demolished C18; south range and south ends of east and west ranges restored by Lowther, the remainder restored by Latham. Two storeys with attic and basement in parts; five x four wide bays with tapering polygonal towers at corners and between bays, taller at angles and centre. Built and restored in C15 style: exterior has one-light or two-light windows, some transomed; courtyard has more wider windows and some with cusped or round-headed lights; four-centred-arched or segmental-arched moulded or chamfered doorways with C20 studded board doors; tall plinth with moulded offset; moulded string below embattled parapet with roll moulded coping; rainwater pipes with decorative initialled heads; stacks with ribbed and corniced clustered flues; steeply-pitched roofs with roll-moulded coping, some with hipped ends.
South (entrance) elevation: three-storey central gate tower has tall recess containing wide, panelled door, window of two cusped, transomed lights above, and grooves for former drawbridge arms; on second floor two transomed windows of two round-headed lights flank coat of arms of Sir Roger Fiennes; flanking towers have gun ports at base, looped arrow slits, machicolated parapets with arrow slits to merlons, and towers rising above as drums. Projecting from gate tower is long bridge (mostly C20) of eight arches, that to centre wider and shallower, with cutwaters, stone parapet, and central corbelled embrasure with flanking tower buttresses.
North side: central gate towers formerly had rooms on lower floors, of which truncated walls and first-floor fireplace fragment remain; machicolated parapet; at left end of range C17 window openings with later eighteen-pane sashes. West side: attached causeway containing basement room and with three half-arched bridge on south side, walling returning as moat retaining walls; main range has a basement doorway with side-lights in chamfered embrasure.
East side: the second tower has C16 first-floor bow window; tall windows to central tower (which contains chapel); right half of range has older windows blocked and larger C17 replacement openings with later eighteen-pane sashes.
Courtyard: seven-bay arcade to north side and central corbelled stack with clock; three-bay 1930s Great Hall (now library) on west side with decorative tracery to windows and offset buttress; gable of former chapel on east side, has perpendicular tracery to window, a two-storey bay window and two crow-stepped gabled attic windows to its left; several doorways and a two-storey bay window to south side; hipped-roofed dormers; brick-lined well in south-west corner.
Interior: some original features survive, including fireplaces, privies, doorways, dungeon and brick-lined dovecote in south-east tower; other old features were brought in from elsewhere, including doors, fireplaces, panelling. In south range: porter's room has old fireplace and relocated linenfold door (found in cellar); reused traceried wood panelling in rebuilt dining room fireplace; stair hall has fine early C17 wooden stair (brought from Theobalds, Herts) with strapwork roundels between square vase balusters, elaborate relief decoration, and lion finials holding shields; at head of stair; elaborate doorcase of same period ribbed ceiling with pendant finials. Drummers Room has reused panelling, part dated 1697, with fluted pilasters and frieze and elaborately arcaded and fluted-pilastered overmantel. Green Room, on second floor, has restored fireplace with crests and beasts on hood; moulded beams and bosses; and reused traceried panel below courtyard window.
North range: very fine late C17 stair (brought from Wheatley Hall, Doncaster; possibly from the workshop of Grinling Gibbons) with baskets-of-flowers and pendant finials to newels, balustrades of open, leafy, scrollwork with flower roundels, and at head of stair two elaborately carved doorcases in similar style with shields in broken pediments. Former ball room has arched ceiling with decorative plasterwork; C17-style panelling; reused elaborately-decorated C17 wooden fireplace overmantel (from Madingley Hall, Cambs.) with two orders of caryatids and embossed panels.
East range: former chapel has reused C15 wooden screen (from France) set in west wall; former Drawing room has elaborate stone fireplace, 1930s in C16 style, and in ante room a reused richly decorated fireplace with griffins and portrait roundels. The C15 castle was well restored in the early C20 and the many fine features which were brought in at that time add to its importance.
Listing NGR: TQ6463810388
Sources
Books and journals
Calvert, D , The History of Herstmonceux Castle
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I, The Buildings of England: Sussex, (1965), 534-6
'Country Life' in 18 May, (1929), 702-709
'Country Life' in 7 December, (1935), 606-612
'Country Life' in 14 December, (1935)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 14 East Sussex,
historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1272785
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Before 1066 Herst (meaning forest or wood) was the name of a prominent local Anglo-Saxon family and ownership of the family's estate passed into the hands of the victorious Normans. In 1131 the manor and estates were transferred to Drogo de Monceux, a great grandson of William the Conqueror . Drogo's son Ingleram married Idonea de Herst, thus founding the Herstmonceux line.
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Herstmonceux Castle Gardens and Grounds is a 300 acre estate including woodland, formal themed gardens and of course a 15th century moated castle.
Made from red brick Herstmonceux Castle is one of the earliest examples of a brick built building in England.
Read more about the history here:-
Elegantly embellishing the scenery of Shān Lake (杉湖; Shān Hú), the Sun and Moon Twin Pagodas, beautifully illuminated at night, are the highlight of a stroll around Guìlín’s two central lakes. The octagonal, seven-storey Moon Pagoda (月塔; Yuè Tǎ) is connected by an underwater tunnel to the 41m-high Sun Pagoda (日塔; Rì Tǎ), the world’s tallest copper pagoda and one of the few pagodas anywhere in the world with a lift.
(from Lonely Planet)
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I created the entire thing from scratch (built the shape and everything), so I'm kinda proud of it. I have to say, drawing is easier in AutoCAD than in Photoshop. If I ever figure out photo-realistic string/twine, I'll add it to this.
The paper is actually an old portrait photo card I laid over the cutout and then masked to shape. I burnt the edges and then hit it with a (brown) brush from Bittbox that turned out to have the awesome texture you see over what I thought was just a blank part of the brush (which is urban decay, I *think*). The bottom border is a stamp I made from a vintage children's book illustration.
You may use it non-commercially for free. You may not sell it in either digital or hard copy form, nor are you permitted to include it in any sort of package, either for resale or to give away. Please respect my copyright. Also, credit and a link back would be nice of you and appreciated. :)
40 x 30 cm
made with the Embellisher
After I had seen Saras newest work, I remembered which I wanted to do after my menopause Angel, still other ones. However, anyhow I had lost it out of sight. However, now there is my new angel - The Engel of innocence!
My Daughter Sarah say to me - this is an "Punk Angel" because of her hair :-)
Macro Mondays - Needle & Thread
Best efforts while on holidays in ‘locked down’ Lanzarote, using my smartphone and needle repair kit !!
Fortunately, we are booked on the last scheduled flight home..... but I think it will be out of the frying pan and into fire.
I hope all MM members keep safe and well in these troubled times