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Earlier I shared (perhaps far too many) images from Vintage Revival Montlhery 2022 and the paddock areas. Now I would like to share (perhaps far too many) images of cars and motorcycles in motion.
Bolehill has perhaps the finest set of abandoned millstones in the Peak. Its a close-run thing with the collection beneath High Neb. In 2022 the ferns were gigantic and buried most of the stacks of stones. They have just started to emerge from their summer cocoon in the fernery.
I see this old couple nearly everyday when I go to work. Life becomes beautiful if you can find someone who wills to hold your hand no matter how slow you are. Perhaps...this is love.
“There are times when a feeling of expectancy comes to me, as if something is there, beneath the surface of my understanding, waiting for me to grasp it. It is the same tantalizing sensation when you almost remember a name, but don't quite reach it. I can feel it when I think of human beings, of the hints of evolution suggested by the removal of wisdom teeth, the narrowing of the jaw no longer needed to chew such roughage as it was accustomed to; the gradual disappearance of hair from the human body; the adjustment of the human eye to the fine print, the swift, colored motion of the twentieth century. The feeling comes, vague and nebulous, when I consider the prolonged adolesence of our species; the rites of birth, marriage and death; all the primitive, barbaric ceremonies streamlined to modern times. Almost, I think, the unreasoning, bestial purity was best. Oh, something is there, waiting for me. Perhaps someday the revelation will burst in upon me and I will see the other side of this monumental grotesque joke. And then I'll laugh. And then I'll know what life is.”
“The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath” (2000) ―Sylvia Plath, 1932-1963
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I've been patching together scraps in my studio, but am not quite sure what I'm making yet. It's lots of fun though
Perhaps a subspecies of D. carolinianum.
Wilson County, Tennessee, USA.
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Dr. Simeone discussed that perhaps the greatest and most successful sports racing cars of all time were made by Alfa Romeo, particularly if one takes history back to the 1920s. In the mid-1990s, the company left the USA for lack of sales, but has recently come back to America. Some of their greatest products were highlighted in this Demo Day, featuring the 1925 Alfa Romeo RLSS, 1934 Alfa Romeo 8C 2300, Mille Miglia Spyder, 1937 Alfa Romeo 8C 2900A, and the new Alfa Romeo 4C.
Photo by Andrew Taylor
A box of heavyish brown cardboard, perhaps thirty centimetres (or one foot) wide, ten centimetres (or four inches) high and fifteen centimetres (or six inches) from front to back. The lid is open, and on top of the contents is a sheet of black paper with white writing, instructing us to open the box (and telling us if we are reading this we are ahead of the game), to remove the cheese and cheese-related items from the box, and then to put our phones down and to catch up. A note after the last instructions advises us that chatting in real life can be intimidating, so they have included some conversation starter cards. The instructions are in a friendly, informal typeface and there are drawings of crackers with slices of cheese on top, and people's faces enumerating the instructions.
Perhaps that's a bonzai growing in the tailight trim?
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2016 Retro Auto, Spanish Bay Inn
A scan of a print taken at O'Reillys Guesthouse in the Lamington Naitonal Park sometime in 1995
A tree frog in the rainforest.
Taken on Kodak Gold 400 according to the negative, I think its a nice image and comes up ok in the scan. Thoughts?
I got the impression that this was mother and child with grandmother in the background. Baadreni Road, Sauraha, Central Southern Nepal.
Perhaps Chedworth is best known for it's Roman villa hidden at the end of a wooded valley a short distance from the village. Chedworth is a linear settlement which follows a steep sided valley for several miles, the small cottages that make up the majority of the buildings are masked amongst the trees and lost from sight by the rise and fall of the land. Perhaps the centre of the village is it's beginning, the group of houses that cluster below the church, which is cut into the steep valley side above. All is quiet and calm, paddocks with sheep, chickens, a pair of donkeys and even llamas line the road. The church is an early foundation, parts of the present structure dating to the late Norman period, most notably the tower. However it is the beauty of the setting, looking out over the valley below and the dramatic wall of Perpendicular windows that make up the south facade that add such beauty to this remote church. The south wall is also remarkable for a series of inscriptions from the late 15th century which include dates written in Arabic numerals. This early use of a system of notation which would revolutionize mathematical calculation is perhaps the product of the international connections of local wool merchants. Chedworth was once a busier place, the remains of a disused railway run through the village and indeed through a substantial tunnel nearby and a Wartime air field can be seen in the fields beyond.
Perhaps the best looking variant of the current 3- & 4-Series models, the Gran Coupé combines the lines of the 4-Series with the practicality of a 5-door hatchback. It also looks much better than the oddly designed 3-Series Gran Turismo (which presents an interesting case of internal competition). Four and six-cylinder engines - petrol and diesel - provide motivation, though the more potent M4 engines are excluded.
When you are visiting the incredible Stone Circles at Avebury, perhaps also taking in Silbury Hill and West Kennett Long Barrow, you can be forgiven for paying no attention to the somewhat run-of-the mill looking church nearby. I know because I’ve done it too! Avebury Church, however, deserves better.
The earliest parts date from AD1000. The Saxons feared the magical powers of the stone circles and were careful to site their church near to them in order to counteract their supposed malevolence. Originally there were no aisles. The north wall of the nave was also one of the outer walls of the Saxon church. At the west end of the nave there are two of the original windows; at the top of this wall are three original round clerestory windows. Around them are rings of holes that originally held wattle rods used in their construction. At the west end of the North aisle there are some remains of the original Saxon wall.
Aisles were added in the c12 in the Norman style. The nave walls were pierced by arcades of two arches on each side. Wider aisles were built in c15 and the Norman south door was moved to its existing position. The tower was added at that time. The arcades were themselves replaced during the Victorian era, but we can still see some remnants of the originals.
There is a large and impressive Norman tub font. The top half features two serpents with their heads turned towards a bishop holding a crozier. The lower half has a pattern of blind arcading. The carving is somewhat crude
and it is worth comparing it with the “best of breed” Norman fonts at churches such as Eardisley and Chaddesley Corbett. Quality varied considerably in Norman times as it does today! The chancel was added in c13. The c14 rood loft is a splendid and rare survivor c15 of the Reformation. Set into the wall of the porch is a remnant of a Norman carving.
I would not claim Avebury as a gem of architecture. Ancient as parts of it are, its age pales into insignificance against the 5000 years of the stone circles, yet it is worth a short detour from your Neolithic and Iron Age itinerary.