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stayed home with strep today :(
really worn out, but heres my upload for the day :P
btw, you should all listen to some Death Cab for Cute.... kaygood :)
6 July 2016 | A group of local old men playing Okey; the traditional Turkish dominoes in a modest tea shop in Kümbet where the elderly are the majority of villagers.
In the rainy and foggy summer, men tend to spend hours competing in this tile-based game at tea shops than staying home, the habit they can't practice in other colder days of the year.
The spread of the Covid-19 Corona virus is an unfortunate event of a severe degree. I would strongly recommend you to keep your family and yourself safe by all means. Time like this requires our absolute attention. This quarantine has slowed down everything around us.
www.arkasoftwares.com/blog/stay-home-stay-safe-but-stay-d...
Stayed home and finished memoirs of a geisha. Went to poke and prep food while I was doing all that. Got ready and dropped off patty T my dads store. Picked up Jarel then Nico. Won a lot on a scratcher. Went to Bryan's house thens school. Then went to kick it at the cave and knocked out
Stayed home from work today due to the snowstorm. I wa good though and spent time going through papers for tax time..... ugh!
Of course I had to take a break and play with the boys in the snow, too! We had a blast playing catch, keep away and tug of war. Hard to believe Josh is now 10 and Ralph is 9.
It's nice to have a fenced in area of the yard now so the boys can play and run as much as they want and we don't have to worry about them.
Today, I stayed home from work, sick. Cold, I think. Coughing, fever, dizzy, phlegmy, all the good stuff. It was sunny out, but I had no energy or motivation to grab a camera and go (or I'd've gone to work). Wife brought home Mucinex D for me--that stuff is great. The psuedoephedrine does tend to mess up my sleep cycle, but I do like breathing. I'll probably stay home tomorrow, too. Might work, though--I have a presentation next week.
So, you get an iPhone pic of my day today, and I get to try Flickit. Reasonable trade, I guess..
Saturday, and I was feeling a little better. Better enough to realise how shit I had felt the previous two days, and needing something to break the cabin fever, soo it would be churchcrawling.
Off to Tesco for supplies, and delight that "party food" has appeared, and although there would be no party at Chez Jelltex, there would be party food to munch on during the evening game.
Back home for breakfast, and Jools decided not to join in the church fun, instead stay home to do overdue chores.
And so the great round of revisits to record details of the stained glass that I previously missed continues.
Elmsted not Elmstead.
Off Stone Street and down past Yockletts Bank and along towards Hastingleigh, before taking a lane back up the down, which double hairpins to the village above, and by the village crossroads is St James.
A huge church for what is a farm and a handful of houses now. I parked beside the road, in a narrow strip between the tarmac and where the verge turned to swamp, got my bag out of the car and walked through the gate, noticing better the shapes of the grave markers repurposed for the path, some even dates being still visible.
The church is cool and still, I had done a pretty good job before, windows excepted, so got to work snapping and moving about. Sun poured in through the mostly clear glass windows, making it seem a place of divine light, even if the sun shone from the south, not the Orient.
Back to the car, and down the down, back to the main road a a quick climb up to Hastingleigh, where the church is a good mile outside the village, beside a farm. It does, at least, have a large car park, so no parking in people's drives or blocking the lane through the village.
A poor wren was trapped inside, but I made it even more desperate than it had been when I entered, and try as I might I couldn't get close to it. And the two fine windows, one of St Michael the Archangel, that I came out especially to photograph had boards up outside, so they could barely be seen.
The rest of the Victorian glass is of a very fine standard, so record all that.
Next church was a twenty minute drive away, Mersham, which can be seen from the train just before entering the outskirts of Ashford, its spire pointing into the morning skies as I zoom past en route to Denmark.
Here there is a most extraordinary west window. Cathedral sized, though it has lost of of the ancient glass that filled it, fragments remain, and I wanted to record those.
Outside a lady was clearing leaves, and inside another was refreshing the floral displays with poppies for services on Sunday.
The window is a wonder, and a burden, as it lets in so much light, that during the summer months the cinema nights they have cannot take place.
I very much like Mesham, and received a quite wonderfully warm and friendly greeting from the two ladies.
One last church to try would be Nackington, back near Canterbury, where the small church has some of the oldest glass in the country.
It was quite a hike across the county to get there only to find the church locked. This was a church that was always open before COVID, and was a major disappointment.
So, back home through Bridge and onto the A2 back to Dover, to get back at midday, just in time to cook lunch.
And settle down then for an afternoons groaning at the football on the wireless.
Norwich were away at Cardiff, and after four straight defeats, hopes were low. But City took the lead, only to concede twice before half time, which suggested the same old story.
But in the second, City played better, and in the closing ten minutes, scored twice to nick the three points.
Well.
The party food was aptly enjoyed as I watched the evening game.
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At the end of narrow lanes. A small simple building of tower, nave, chancel and wide south aisle. The nave is Norman and displays a very narrow twelfth-century window high in its north wall. The rest of the church appears to be thirteenth century - the two-bay south arcade unmistakably dating from this period. There are also faint traces of later wall paintings in the aisle. The rood screen is fifteenth century and leads the visitor into an exceptionally long and light chancel whose floor level is, rather unusually, lower than that of the nave. A south window contains sixteenth-century armorial glass whilst a northern lancet shows excellent grisaille glass of the thirteenth century.
www.kentchurches.info/church.asp?p=Hastingleigh
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St. Mary the Virgin is situated in a beautiful quiet valley about a mile from the village centre of Hastingleigh. Worship is recorded from 1293 but there was probably a church here prior to 1066. Today in its well kept and florally decorated interior there are some fine pieces of craftsmanship from local sculptor, Michael Rust and local artist, the late Gordon Davis. There is also a very symbolic and attractive all seasons altar frontal.
Hastingleigh is part of the United Wye Benefice and one of the four “up the hill” parishes; hence there are close links with Elmsted, Petham and Waltham. Services are at 11 a.m. on the 1st, 3rd and 4th Sundays. On the 2nd Sunday there is a joint family service in Bodsham C of E primary school, which is shared with the parishes of Elmsted and Waltham.
www.wyebenefice.org.uk/hastingleigh-history
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HASTINGLIGH
IS the next parish northward from Braborne, being called in the record of Domesday, Hastingelai, taking its name from the two Saxon words, hehstan, highest, and leah, a field or place, denoting its high situation. Though that part of this parish which contains the village and church is in the hundred of Bircholt Franchise, yet so much of it as is in Town Borough, is in the hundred of Wye, and within the liberty of that manor. There is only one borough, called Hastingligh borough, in the parish.
HASTINGLIGH is situated in a healthy poor country, the greatest part of it very high, at a small distance northward from the summit of the chalk, or Down hills, though it extends southward to the foot of them, and comprehends most of what is called Brabornedowns. The church, and the court-lodge which adjoins the church-yard, are in a valley on the northern side of the parish. The whole of it is a continuation of hill and dale; the soil of the former being chalk, and the latter a reddish earth, mixed with quantities of stones; the whole very poor and barren. There is much open down in it, especially towards the south, though there are in different parts of it, several small pieces of coppice wood. The house in it are about twenty, and the inhabitants about one hundred. There is not any fair held in it.
THE MANOR OF HASTINGLIGH, being within the liberty of the duchy of Lancaster, was formerly part of the possessions of Odo, bishop of Baieux; accordingly it is thus entered in the survey of Domesday, under the general title of that prelate's lands:
In Briceode hundred, Roger, son of Anschitil, holds of the see of the bishop, Hastingelai, which Ulnod held of king Edward, and was then taxed at one suling, and now for three yokes, because Hugo de Montfort holds another part within his division. The arable land is three carucates. In demesne there are two, and two villeins, with six borderers having one carucate. There are four servants, and wood for the pannage of one hog. In the time of king Edward the Confessor it was worth sixty sbillings, and afterwards thirty shillings, now sixty sbillings.
Four years after the bishop of Baieux was disgraced, and all his estates were consiscated to the crown, whence this manor was afterwards granted to the earl of Lei cester, of whom it was held by the family of St. Clere; but they had quitted the possession of it before the 20th year of king Edward III. when Thomas de Bax held it by knight's service of the above-mentioned earl. How long his descendants continued in the possession of it, I have not found; but it afterwards became the property of the Hauts, one of whom, Richard Haut, died possessed of it in the 3d year of Henry VII. holding it of the king as of his duchy of Lancaster. Soon after which this manor passed to Sir Edward Poynings, who died in the 14th year of king Henry VIII. not only without lawful issue, but without any collateral kindred, who could make claim to his estates, upon which this manor, with his other lands, escheated to the crown, where it continued till the king granted it, with the manors of Aldglose, Combe, Grove, Fanscombe, and Smeeds-farm, in this parish, among other estates, to the hospital of the Savoy, in London, which being suppressed in the 7th year of king Edward VI. he gave them that year to the mayor and commonalty, citizens of the city of London, in trust, for the hospital of Bridewell, and St. Thomas's hospital, in Southwark; some few years after which a partition was made of these estates, when this manor, with those of Aldglose, Combe, Grove and Fanscombe, in this parish, with Smeedsfarm, and other lands adjoining, were allotted to St. Thomas's hospital, part of whose possessions they remain at this time, Mr. Thomas Kidder being the present lessee of the demesne lands of the manors of Hastingligh and Aldglose; but the manerial rights, royalties, and quit-rents, the governors of the hospital retain in their own hands.
ALDGLOSE, as it is now usually called, but more properly Aldelose, is a manor here, which at the time of taking the survey of Domesday was part of the possessions of the bishop of Baieux, under the general title of whose lands it is thus entered in it:
In Bilisold hundred, Osbert holds of William, son of Tau, Aldelose. There lies half a suling. The arable land is two carucates. In demesne there is one carcate, and three villeins having half a carucate. In the time of king Edward the Confessor, it was worth thirty shillings, afterwards twenty shillings, now forty shilling. This land is of the fee of the bishop of Baieux, and remained without his division. Godric held it of king Edward, with Bradeburne manor.
Upon the bishop's disgrace four years after the taking of the above survey, all his possessions were confiscated to the crown, whence this manor was granted to Jeffry de Saye, of whom it was held by a family who assumed their surname from it, several of whom were benefactors to the priory of Horton. (fn. 1) But in the 20th year of king Edward III. it was separated in the hands of different possessors. After which, that part of Aldelose which comprehended the manor, passed into the family of Haut, and was afterwards esteemed as an appendage to the manor of Hastingligh, and as such passed with it from that name to Poynings; and thence again, in like manner as has been related before, in the account of that manor, to St. Thomas's hospital, in Southwark, part of the possessions of which it continues at this time. The manerial rights the governors of the hospital retain in their own hands; but the demesne lands are let to Mr. Thomas Kidder.
KINGSMILL DOWN is a small hamlet in the southern part of this parish, in which is a seat, which formerly belonged to a family named Beling, or Belling, which name was till lately in the west window of this church. It afterwards came into the possession of the family of Jacob, and Mr. Abraham Jacob, of Dover, owned it in the reign of king George I. from which name it passed to Mr. John Sankey, whose son Mr. Richard Sankey is the present owner of it.
There are no parochial charities. The number of poor constantly relieved are about ten, casually five.
HASTINGLIGH is within the ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION of the diocese of Canterbury, and deanry of Elham.
The church, which is dedicated to St. Mary, consists of two isles and a chancel, having a square tower steeple at the west end of the south isle, in which is only one bell. The chancel, which is at the end of the north isle, is nearly of the same length with it. The two isles and tower seem very antient, and the chancel much antienter still, having small narrow windows, and several circular arches or door-ways in the outside walls, now walled up. In the east window of the chancel are two circular shields of arms; the first, within the garter, of four coats, Poynings, Fitzpaine, Bryan, and 4th as first; the other shield is obliterated. There is no other painted glass in the church. In the chancel are memorials for several of the Sankeys. In the north isle, on a brass plate, a memorial for John Halke, obt. 1604, and on a brass plate a hawk.
¶The church was antiently part of the possessions of the family of Poynings, one of whom, Michael de Poynings, of Terlingham, in Folkestone, held the advowson of it in capite at his death in the 43d year of king Edward III. and in his descendants the property of it continued down to Sir Edward Poynings, who died possessed of it in the 14th year of king Henry VIII. holding it in capite by knight's service, and by the service of supporting and repairing the moiety of a chapel and hall in the castle of Dover, as often as necessary, at his own expence, and by the service of paying to the great and the small wards of the castle, on his death, without lawful issue, and even without any collateral kindred, who could make claim to his estates, the advowson of this church escheated to the crown, whence it was afterwards granted to White, whose heirs sold it to Sir John Baker, of Sissinghurst, and he in the 38th year of Henry VIII. conveyed it to the king, and it remained in the hands of the crown till Edward VI. in his Ist year, granted this advowson and three acres of land in this parish, to archbishop Cranmer. Since which it has remained parcel of the possessions of the see of Canterbury, his grace the archbishop being the present patron of this rectory.
Stayed home on Superbowl Sunday (way to go Saints!) and relaxed all day. I plan on revisiting this shot as spring time comes.
Green Meadows Lane, West Columbia, TX
04.26.2020
Note: Looking outside through the front door of my new house. Because I am at high risk for COVID-19, I stay at home a lot. I have made trips to the small post office on the HOA grounds, gone to the drive-thru window of the pharmacy to pick up prescriptions, and bought lunch at curbside 421 Coffeehouse in West Columbia. Yesterday, I went to my favorite park, First Capitol Park, to photograph nature and participate in iNaturalist's City Nature Challenge 2020. In all of my activities, I take precautions to avoid this pandemic virus. Somehow, this window brings me hope as I look outside day and night.
I think one of the things that drew me to this house in December, 2019, was the front door with its beautiful etched glass and star in the middle. I've lived in Texas now for almost 53 years, most of my life. Unlike my children and grandchildren, I'm not a native Texan. But I feel like one! Anyone who lives in Texas knows that the lone star is a symbol of our great state. I post my photos to a photostream on Flickr. I'm a participant in its Flickr Friday group. This week's theme is "stay home". With the thought in mind that I would post a photo of my door looking outside through the window, I began taking these photos. 04.26.2020
stayed home sick. i don't feel that bad, but i sound like an 87 year old smoker. and have a nasty cough. i got my thank yous written though. and watched auntie mame. go me.
Green Meadows Lane, West Columbia, TX
04.26.2020
Note: Looking outside through the front door of my new house. Because I am at high risk for COVID-19, I stay at home a lot. I have made trips to the small post office on the HOA grounds, gone to the drive-thru window of the pharmacy to pick up prescriptions, and bought lunch at curbside 421 Coffeehouse in West Columbia. Yesterday, I went to my favorite park, First Capitol Park, to photograph nature and participate in iNaturalist's City Nature Challenge 2020. In all of my activities, I take precautions to avoid this pandemic virus. Somehow, this window brings me hope as I look outside day and night.
I think one of the things that drew me to this house in December, 2019, was the front door with its beautiful etched glass and star in the middle. I've lived in Texas now for almost 53 years, most of my life. Unlike my children and grandchildren, I'm not a native Texan. But I feel like one! Anyone who lives in Texas knows that the lone star is a symbol of our great state. I post my photos to a photostream on Flickr. I'm a participant in its Flickr Friday group. This week's theme is "stay home". With the thought in mind that I would post a photo of my door looking outside through the window, I began taking these photos. 04.26.2020