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Oh yeah! This is so awsome! This is a swedish magazine, about interior design and such, and with a countryside-nish. It has about 177 000 readers every month.
This is a fullpage ad for a interiour design & textil shop, in that magazine, that's situated near my bf's place. The photographer and maker of this ad is ME. My name is in the bottom left corner for everyone to see.
It's like.. the biggest thing that's ever happened to me :D
St Mary sits beside the back road from Oulton to the AA143 at St Olaves, the way to Norwich and beyond avoiding the traffic in Oulton Broad. So, I passed the church hundreds of times, and never thought to go in.
And then I got into churchcrawling, and because visiting Mum was sometimes unpleasant, visiting a church or two when in Suffolk was the sugar that helped the medicine go down.
St Mary sits on the edge of the estate of Somerleyton Hall, one home to railway magnate, Sir Morton Peto.
Most memorable feature are the painted saint's icons on the rood screen.
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Suffolk's Lothingland peninsula drives a wedge up between Norfolk and the coast, and contains five parishes which are otherwise cut off from the rest of Suffolk by the town of Lowestoft to the south of them. To the north there were once half a dozen more, but they were taken into Norfolk by various boundary changes between the 1890s and 1974. To this day the Lothingland parishes are in the Diocese of Norwich, not the diocese of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich, and Somerleyton is one of them.
The 1844 edition of White's Directory for Suffolk described Somerleyton as a pleasant scattered village, and indicated that the parish was best known for its Hall, built by Sir John Jernigan in the reign of Elizabeth, (which) stands in a beautiful park finely clothed with trees and evergreens. The directory goes on to quote the antiquarian Thomas Fuller, who thought that it well deserves the name of Summerley, for it was always summer there. The parish church of St Mary sits on the edge of the Somerleyton estate, which was a busy one, for at the 1851 census Somerleyton had a population of 627. It had quite outgrown its little church, which was recorded as having sittings of just free 60, others 100. Samuel Brame, the registrar who filled in the return for the Census of Religious Worship here, pointed out that Mr Peto's chapel reduces church attendants, and furthermore that there were a large number of Baptists.
'Mr Peto' was Samuel Morton Peto, the millionaire entrepreneur and industrialist, who in 1844 had bought Somerleyton Hall, demolished it and had it completely rebuilt. Peto had made (and would lose) his fortune from railways, and at one point he was described as the largest employer of labour in the whole world. Peto was a Baptist, and his Somerleyton Hall Baptist Chapel had been erected three years earlier in 1848 as part of the rebuilding of the Hall. Non-conformism was strong in this part of East Anglia, but in fact Mr Peto's Chapel doesn't seem to have had a huge effect on the parish church, for the attendances for morning worship at both church and chapel were roughly the same, about 70. Rural East Anglians tended to be 'independents', which is to say congregationalists, or else they were Methodists of various hues, so perhaps the urban Baptist tradition of the new chapel was still a little exotic for them. William Treen, the minister who filled in the return for the Chapel, recorded that the congregation was apparently composed of Baptists and Independents, and we may assume that if the chapel had not been there then they would have headed off to the chapels of Lowestoft rather than to their parish church. Almost 150 people were at the chapel in the afternoon, for typically in rural East Anglia the locals preferred a sermon to worship of any kind.
This then, is the background to the events at Somerleyton in the middle years of the 19th Century. Pevsner described the rebuilt Somerleyton Hall as one of the most flamboyant and best-preserved Victorian country houses in England. The architect was John Thomas, who had worked with Pugin and Barry on the rebuilding of the Houses of Parliament, and in 1854 Peto directed Thomas to turn his attention to the church. The nave and chancel were entirely rebuilt on a larger scale, while the lower part of the square tower was retained but the upper third was rebuilt. What remains of the old tower appears to be from the very end of the medieval period, a date which is supported by records of bequests at this time, including one of 1503 by John Bassett who left a noble to the making of the Somerleyton steeple (steeple in this context meaning a tower rather than a spire).
The church that John Thomas rebuilt sits set back from the Blundeston to Somerleyton road. As you approach it you can see that the exterior has that crisp, almost urban feel that you get with churches of this age, but Peto insisted on the very best materials for his projects. However, as Pevsner pointed out, it is surprisingly self-effacing considering what they had dome to the Hall. The style is entirely in the rural East Anglian style, with no aisles or clerestories, and it is so successfully done that for a moment it is easy to forget that this is, in fact, a Victorian church. The square tower seems unusual in this area, for just about all the neighbouring churches have round ones, and it may be that the late medieval rebuilding of the tower here replaced an earlier round tower. Peto must have been proud of his new estate, and in 1855 he was made a baronet as a reward for his quickly built supply-line railways between Sevastapol and Balaklava during the Crimean War. But the end was coming. The railway bubble was bursting, and in 1863 he sold Somerleyton Hall as a result of the decline in his fortunes. By 1866 he was bankrupt. The loss of his non-conformist steadying hand here allowed the chancel to be extended for the fashionable High Church liturgy of the day in 1871.
The churchyard baked under the hot sun on the day I revisited in July 2022, but the headstones have not been reset by lawnmower enthusiasts, and pleasingly there were sheep lazing beneath the trees in the south-east corner. You enter the church through John Thomas's simple south porch, and step into a wide nave under a single span roof, the roof in the chancel replicating that in the nave. The proportions are broadly similar to those of the church at neighbouring Blundeston, although the chancel arch here is wider. Within it is one of the survivals from the church's predecessor, one of Suffolk's more memorable late medieval rood screens. The dado is painted with sixteen saints in eight pairs of panels, four each side. On the north side they are St Michael, St Edmund, St Apollonia, St Laurence, St Faith, St Thomas of Canterbury, St Anne and St Andrew. On the south side they are St John, St Mary Magdalene, St Felix, St Petronilla, St Stephen, St Dorothy, St Edward the Confessor and St George.
The saints here are roughly paired across the north and south sides of the screen. The two outer saints are St Michael on the north side and St George on the south side, both of them dragon killers The next two in, St Edmund and St Edward the Confessor, are the two traditional patron saints of England. Another pairing is that of the two deacon martyrs, St Lawrence and St Stephen, and there are two familiar pairings of female saints, St Apollonia with St Dorothy and St Faith with St Petronilla. These four are all virgin martyrs, and were often asked for their intercessions for familiar domestic problems, St Apollonia against toothache, St Petronilla against fevers, and so on.
The other major survival from the old church is a bulky 15th Century font wearing a characterful 17th Century font cover. It feels a bit crammed in, because in 1967 an organ gallery was added at the west end of the church. This is an unusual date and it was an unusual thing to add to a church at any time after the 1830s, but presumably an organ was acquired and it had to go somewhere. Intriguingly, this gallery now partially obscures what appears to be a medieval stone reredos reset above the south doorway. James Bettley, revising the Buildings of England volume for East Suffolk, records that it was discovered during the 1854 rebuilding, and intriguingly notes that it seems to be of the same date, and perhaps by the same hand, as the font. The glass in the nave is mostly good of various dates. The most interesting is a pair of exquisite panels of 14th Century Flemish glass depicting St Catherine with her wheel and the Blessed Virgin and Christchild. She stands on a crescent moon wearing a crown as Queen of Heaven.
These two panels are said to have come from the nearby St Olave's Priory, which at the Reformation was bought by the same Thomas Jernegan who had built the original Somerleyton Hall, explaining their removal to the Hall and then after the 19th Century rebuilding to the church. Two modern panels beside them commemorate more recent owners of the Hall. The 1960 panel of St Francis is by Maile & Son, its 1985 partner of St Clare by Paul Quail in 1985. The rest of the glass in the nave is by the then-fashionable Munich workshop of Mayer & Co, and it was installed in the 1890s.
The chancel is dominated by a large black and white monument on the north wall, another survival from the earlier church. It is to John and Anna Wentworth, who are represented by conventional busts, but is of interest because it was commissioned in the 1650s, during the Commonwealth. The Wentworths must have been people of some influence, but the Latin inscription is carefully worded to ensure that this great edifice could be manufactured and erected under the suspicious eyes of the local puritans. There are a number of other noteworthy memorials, but it is hard to forget General Sir HP de Bathe, and not only because his memorial comes complete with a sword and a plumed hat. De Bathe not only served in an official capacity at the coronation of Queen Victoria in 1838, he did so again at her funeral, 63 years later.
Simon Knott, September 2022
The brief
The clients have lived in a number of properties over the past few years and have always enjoyed working with a garden designer to achieve the garden they desire. They recently had their basement developed in their latest property to include a large family space which is the most utilised space in the house. Their attentions have now turned to the garden. They recently had their boundary wall re-built and have undertaken some ad hoc landscaping, including the installation of granite aggregate and planting, but feel now they would like to overhaul the whole space. The client is quite a keen gardener and enjoys horticultural pursuits in her spare time.
The overhanging mulberry bush from next door causes issues with it berries dropping on the lower terrace and the client would like to consider some solutions for this in the final design.
The solution
The garden has been loosely based on a Japanese style garden with simple lines and repetition. A paved area directly at the top of the terrace allows option for a table and chairs to be placed on it for formal dining. Two pathways lead off from this area. The first leads to a structure in the left of the space, directly beneath the mulberry bush. This will feature a paved area comprising a combination of travertine and granite sets trimmed with stainless steel edging to provide a slick contemporary base. Enclosing this is a timber structure including an integral table and two benches, which will provide further opportunity for al fresco dining. The structure is partially covered with a timber and stainless steel mesh roof to prevent the mulberry bush berries marking the table. Two sides of the structure have alcove shelving to help create the impression of an outdoors room as well as giving a nod towards the Japanese theme. Illuminated globo lights suspended from the roof of the structure add drama and illuminate the space at night. The spheres mark a motif which is repeated elsewhere in the garden.
The second pathway from the main terrace leads down the garden, via a box hedge edged planting bed containing a specimen acer, and then over a sunken water feature pool covered with a walk-over metal grill. Fed at one end by a water blade mounted onto a rendered wall, this provides provides another dramatic element to the space.
The centre of the garden features an offset rectangle of lawn edged in black granite setts, with a trio of sandstone balls, globo lights and box balls at each corner continuing the spherical theme.
The pathway continues diagonally down the garden where the clients existing terracotta statues are positioned across the space as a focal point. A second box edged planting bed featuring a specimen acer marks the dog leg of the pathway to a second patio area at the bottom of the garden. This patio is ideally placed to catch the last of the afternoon sun. Earth Designs suggests a sofa style seating arrangement.
Adjoining this patio is a raised vegetable planter positioned for the clients children to have a go at ‘grow your own’.
Running diagonally across the back of the garden are a series of black Perspex screens to mask the shed and utility area. In front of each highly reflective screen will be a silver birch tree underplanted with woodland plants creates a serene backdrop to the space.
Planting in the space will be leafy and monochrome. Japanese influences will prevail with the focus on leaf form and colour.
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If you a not a UK resident, but would like an Earth Designs garden, Earth Designs has a worldwide design service through our Garden Design Postal Design Vouchers. If you are looking for an unique birthday present or original anniversary present and would like to buy one of our Garden Design Gift Vouchers for yourself or as a present please our sister site www.gardenpresents.co.uk. We do also design outside of the UK, please contact us for details.
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Gucci is a luxury brand; choosing one of these designer bags is a declaration of style. When buying your first Gucci bag, research the bag types and their variations to find which works best for you. Bags come in many styles, some appropriate for everyday use and others intended for an evening out. Gucci offers several variations for most of their styles, with some having upwards of seven or more color and fabric variations. Once you settle on a style, decide whether you want to purchase the bag new or used. While a used bag offers significant savings, it may have some damage from everyday use.
Choose a Gucci Bag Style
If this is your first handbag, decide the best style to suit your needs. For the purse that follows you from work to a casual evening out, look for a bag that is big enough to carry all the things you need throughout the day. This can include your wallet, your phone, grooming supplies, and other miscellaneous items that make up your day. For most women, this should be a medium or larger sized bag. Small bags and clutches are best for evenings, when you only need a few items.
Common Features of Gucci Bags
Gucci bags have a few things in common no matter what the style. The company only makes the bags in Italy, and all new bags come with a few distinctive features. Every bag has an interior tag sewn into the lining of the purse that includes a serial number stamped into the leather. The front of the tag says "Gucci" and "Made in Italy." The back of the tag has the purse's model number and a unique serial number.
Branding and Iconography
Some bags use a canvas fabric with a "GG" pattern on it, while others merely have the letters present somewhere in the design, such as on metal accents. Gucci got its start as an equestrian company; many of the handbags offer small nods to this in bags' lining patterns or by using horse bit accents. Gucci even offers a line of horse bit bags.
Cards and Accessories
Every new Gucci bag comes with two cards: the Controllato card and the care card. The Controllato card is a sign that the bag passed inspection. It has the word "Gucci" in all caps at the top, the word "Controllato," and ten digits (1 through 9, plus 0) below that. The care card includes, as you might suspect, care instructions for the bag in several different languages.
New bags also come with a dust bag for storing the handbag. This bag has a satin finish and a cotton interior to protect your handbag. It has an interior tag that says both "Gucci" and "Made in Italy."
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This frame from David Dyer-Bennet won a second place vote.
Judge's comment (2nd): Tape! Without a doubt the best part of bout cleanup is watching little kids fall in love with track tape. This little girl's joy makes all the hard work worthwhile.
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Gucci is a luxury brand; choosing one of these designer bags is a declaration of style. When buying your first Gucci bag, research the bag types and their variations to find which works best for you. Bags come in many styles, some appropriate for everyday use and others intended for an evening out. Gucci offers several variations for most of their styles, with some having upwards of seven or more color and fabric variations. Once you settle on a style, decide whether you want to purchase the bag new or used. While a used bag offers significant savings, it may have some damage from everyday use.
Choose a Gucci Bag Style
If this is your first handbag, decide the best style to suit your needs. For the purse that follows you from work to a casual evening out, look for a bag that is big enough to carry all the things you need throughout the day. This can include your wallet, your phone, grooming supplies, and other miscellaneous items that make up your day. For most women, this should be a medium or larger sized bag. Small bags and clutches are best for evenings, when you only need a few items.
Common Features of Gucci Bags
Gucci bags have a few things in common no matter what the style. The company only makes the bags in Italy, and all new bags come with a few distinctive features. Every bag has an interior tag sewn into the lining of the purse that includes a serial number stamped into the leather. The front of the tag says "Gucci" and "Made in Italy." The back of the tag has the purse's model number and a unique serial number.
Branding and Iconography
Some bags use a canvas fabric with a "GG" pattern on it, while others merely have the letters present somewhere in the design, such as on metal accents. Gucci got its start as an equestrian company; many of the handbags offer small nods to this in bags' lining patterns or by using horse bit accents. Gucci even offers a line of horse bit bags.
Cards and Accessories
Every new Gucci bag comes with two cards: the Controllato card and the care card. The Controllato card is a sign that the bag passed inspection. It has the word "Gucci" in all caps at the top, the word "Controllato," and ten digits (1 through 9, plus 0) below that. The care card includes, as you might suspect, care instructions for the bag in several different languages.
New bags also come with a dust bag for storing the handbag. This bag has a satin finish and a cotton interior to protect your handbag. It has an interior tag that says both "Gucci" and "Made in Italy."
Akram at Motorwerks of Houston just sent us shots of this stunning black 996 Turbo, featuring all wheel drive, a 3.6L turbocharged flat-six with a dry sump oiling system rated at nearly 500 horsepower from the factory before mods and a near 200mph top speed. Motorwerks tuned the car and added a set of 19" HRE C93 competition forged series wheels finished in full satin black.
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To learn more about HRE competition series custom-made forged wheels for your Porsche or other sports car, call (760) 598-1960. Visit our Wheels section online to view the entire HRE competition series line.
Sonalii is a commissioned OOAK doll featuring Charo sculpt in Chocolate resin and Busty body type. Her hands and feet are decorated with black tattoos in Indian henna style, her earrings and nose ring echo the bronze of the luminous Fenty Beauty inspired highlighter on her face and body, her yukata is made of African cotton fabric and embellished with an Indian embroidered obi belt and a Japanese obijime cord. Sonalii comes with two hard cap wigs: an updo gathering afro and dreadlocks into a French braid made of wool, and a Boho style double robe braid made of alpaca.
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International Youth Day was marked in Afghanistan today under the global theme of ‘Youth and Mental Health.’ In the capital, Kabul, the Ministry of Information and Culture (MoIC), with the assistance and coordination of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), held an event at which a range of people – government and UN officials, members of parliaments, amongst others – spoke on the state of mental health among Afghan youth, as well as their role in Afghan society’s development and progress.
In her comments at the event, the Acting UN Resident Coordinator, Dr. Annette Sachs Robertson, said that mental health conditions – driven by decades of insecurity, violence, poverty and unemployment – have left their mark on generations of Afghans, particularly its youth. “More than one million of our young people in Afghanistan are suffering from mental health conditions each year,” she said. In his message for the Day, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for enabling youth with mental health conditions to realize their full potential. Other observances for International Youth Day were held in various regions of the country.
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Pictures taken at ANZ Stadium during the Balmain vs Petersham rugby match featuring French International rugby player Sebastien Chabal , playing for Balmain. This was the opener for the Super Rugby match between the NSW Waratahs and the Queensland Reds.
Pic shows...
Sebastien Chabal in action during match, in the sheds before and after the match and with fans after full time.
Here featuring the Foxglove White Cloud (Digitalis Purpurea Alba) that came along with another plant I bought in 2018 and now it is growing real well - & the 1 of 2 fig tree is in the middle & recognizing others??
KABUL, 12 November 2014 - The UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women, Rashida Manjoo, spoke to members of the media at a Kabul press conference, detailing her assessment of the situation of women in Afghanistan following a weeklong investigative trip to the country.
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Mariya Daurova pulls a cow in his house in the village of Iskra 70 km from Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan on 22 August 2016 .© FAO PHOTO / VYACHESLAV OSELEDKO
Gucci Bag in Ireland For Girls Ladies and women Acre ladies bags women bags girls bags Irish gift items and online shop Irish catalog featuring gifts from Ireland
Gucci is a luxury brand; choosing one of these designer bags is a declaration of style. When buying your first Gucci bag, research the bag types and their variations to find which works best for you. Bags come in many styles, some appropriate for everyday use and others intended for an evening out. Gucci offers several variations for most of their styles, with some having upwards of seven or more color and fabric variations. Once you settle on a style, decide whether you want to purchase the bag new or used. While a used bag offers significant savings, it may have some damage from everyday use.
Choose a Gucci Bag Style
If this is your first handbag, decide the best style to suit your needs. For the purse that follows you from work to a casual evening out, look for a bag that is big enough to carry all the things you need throughout the day. This can include your wallet, your phone, grooming supplies, and other miscellaneous items that make up your day. For most women, this should be a medium or larger sized bag. Small bags and clutches are best for evenings, when you only need a few items.
Common Features of Gucci Bags
Gucci bags have a few things in common no matter what the style. The company only makes the bags in Italy, and all new bags come with a few distinctive features. Every bag has an interior tag sewn into the lining of the purse that includes a serial number stamped into the leather. The front of the tag says "Gucci" and "Made in Italy." The back of the tag has the purse's model number and a unique serial number.
Branding and Iconography
Some bags use a canvas fabric with a "GG" pattern on it, while others merely have the letters present somewhere in the design, such as on metal accents. Gucci got its start as an equestrian company; many of the handbags offer small nods to this in bags' lining patterns or by using horse bit accents. Gucci even offers a line of horse bit bags.
Cards and Accessories
Every new Gucci bag comes with two cards: the Controllato card and the care card. The Controllato card is a sign that the bag passed inspection. It has the word "Gucci" in all caps at the top, the word "Controllato," and ten digits (1 through 9, plus 0) below that. The care card includes, as you might suspect, care instructions for the bag in several different languages.
New bags also come with a dust bag for storing the handbag. This bag has a satin finish and a cotton interior to protect your handbag. It has an interior tag that says both "Gucci" and "Made in Italy."
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