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It's too early and too bright for Fonz, but at least he was casting a cool shadow, almost a cliched shadow puppet rabbit..
Holidays have finally arrived too so hopefully I'll be able to get some time to catch up with Flickr and everything else
Staring off to his left into the morning sun for more than 50 years is guaranteed to give your face some serious squint lines.
And possibly lichen lines too.
(I inadvertently made this guy's nose a while back when I trimmed the branch you see right in the middle of his face. All the rest came sort of natural-like.)
Estrabismo.
The Magic Donkey continues to duplicate the pickings into flickr's explore pages. Anybody knows what's going on?
St Mary's church at Newnham Murren is a small building consisting of nave and chancel of equal length, with an aisle to the south. Externally it appears to be a mainly 13th century structure, but much earlier work remains inside in the plain early Norman chancel arch.
The church was declared redundant in the 1970s and was vested in the Churches Conservation Trust.
The interior is simple with a few old furnishings such as the Jacobean pulpit and an Elizabethan family brass in the short south aisle. An unusually rounded squint is situated to the right of the chancel arch.
The east window is the work of William Wailes of Newcastle and features four pictoral medallions set in grisaille. Despite having releaded the window in the 1990s and repainted several parts of the grisaille glass this was my first visit to the church and sight of the glass I worked on in situ.
I was looking at this picture for a really long time, and I realized I look absolutely ridiculous in it.
Spectators enjoy high summer sunshine at Mottram Cricket Club's Sapphire Gardens ground. Captured during the 2021 staging of the Greater Manchester League's 20 Championship Cup Finals Day.
Hosts Mottram were beaten in a tense final by Division One rivals Golborne, who won by four wickets with two balls to spare.
Jake Waterworth (39 not out) and Bailey Turnbull (25 not out) were Golborne's heroes. At 110-6, Giants looked to have missed their chance. But Waterworth and Turnbull featured in an unbroken seventh-wicket stand worth 65. Off the fourth ball of the final over, with the scores tied, Turnbull lofted a four over close fielders to clinch victory.
Hasnain Abbas contributed 32, Declan Mulvey 27 and Ciaran Vesey 26. Harry Moore finished with 3-35, Ryan Fitton 2-23. The hosts, who used six bowlers, lacked the depth of the Golborne attack.
Earlier, Andrew Metcalfe (57 off 36 balls), Jordan Irons (39) and Stefan Fielding (35) helped Mottram post another decent total. Waterworth, who produced a fine, all-round display, took 4-28 (including three wickets in a single over, the 19th). Brett Houghton had 2-24.
Event statistics
First Semi-Final (20 overs, 10am start)
Elton Rifles versus Golborne Giants
Admission: £2. Programme: eight pages (included with admission). Attendance: 90. Elton Rifles won the toss and elected to bat. Elton Rifles 116-9 off 20 overs (Matty Ward 32, Brett Houghton 3-28) lost by seven wickets to Golborne Giants 121-3 off 17 overs (Kieron Vasey 69 not out)
Second Semi-Final (20 overs, 1.20pm start)
Red Star Mottram versus Wythenshawe Lions
Admission: £2. Programme: eight pages (included with admission). Attendance: 180. Wythenshawe Lions won the toss and elected to field. Red Star Mottram 187-4 off 20 overs (Oliver Andrew 70, Ryan Fitton 60, Sam Grant 3-43 beat by 100 runs Wythenshawe Lions 87 off 13.3 overs (Salim Reza 21, Daniel Brightmore 3-11, Ryan Fitton 3-17)
Final (20 overs, 4.40pm start)
Red Star Mottram versus Golborne Giants
Admission: £2. Programme: eight pages (included with admission). Attendance: 180. Golborne Giants won the toss and elected to field. Red Star Mottram 171-7 off 20 overs (Andrew Metcalfe 57, Jordan Irons 39, Stefan Fielding 35, Jake Waterworth 4-28, Brett Houghton 2-24)
Sometimes if you squint your eyes just right (or look at the 'E' Concourse or Terminal 2), MSP appears to to be an airport alive with healthy competition, not dominated by Delta.
Taken on Highway 1 (Pacific Coast Highway)
I know I'm not supposed to point the camera into the sun, but I wanted the shot, so I took a quick one.
Positive or negative, please comment!
St Mary, Nettlestead, Suffolk
Along with its non-identical twin Flowton on the other crest on the opposite side of the Gipping Valley, Nettlestead is one of my favourite small churches in England. I come here often, a short bike ride from my house in Ipswich. And yet, it is remote and apparently little known. The font is a wonder - trashed by a bomb in 1940, it was reconstructed by the great Munro Cautley, who also took the opportunity to remove the worst excesses of the 19th Century restoration. It features extraordinary carvings. This is a simple church of the ordinary people. The small memorial beside the porch to a child who died at the age of ten hours never fails to move me fifteen years after I first saw it.
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I took the new Buildings of England: Suffolk for a test-run. A short cycle ride out from my house in Ipswich took me to the churches of Bramford, Little Blakenham, Nettlestead, Somersham, Flowton, Elmsett, Burstall and Sproughton.
Flowton and Nettlestead are two of my favourite churches in the world. All eight are churches I like to some degree. The new BOE proved a splendid companion, showing me things in all churches that I'd never noticed before.
Incidentally, because the new Suffolk Pevsner is in two volumes, and the chosen border between the two volumes is the line of the A12/A14/A140 roads, all the churches I visited were in the SUFFOLK: WEST volume, despite the fact that Bramford and Sproughton are suburbs of Ipswich, which of course is in SUFFOLK: EAST.
The new Buildings of England volumes for Suffolk are published on April 23rd. People will just have to buy both.