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You’re called to the scene, Detective. Again. This time, the murder took place in the bathroom🚿, a space meant for privacy and reflection, now forever stained in blood. A life ended behind a locked door, no signs of struggle, just silence, and then a body.💀
The game is far from over, Detective. And Macabre Mansion isn’t done with you yet.
🔍Solve this latest murder and you’ll earn the Whodunnit Game, the ultimate sleuthing showdown!
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After taking water at the tank British Railways Standard 9F 2-10-0 92214, driven by Tom, heads off down the loop to pick up its train in platform 2.
We were participating in the play "I Die with my Little Spy", a Whodunnit, and dinner on the GCR.
Based on the iconic home of the world's greatest detective, this modular comprises Sherlock Holmes's 221B Baker Street house and a mysterious Antiques Store next-door. Sherlock's home includes an ornate Victorian living room and bedroom, a rooftop terrace (with a greenhouse, telescope, and table for afternoon tea), and Sherlock's laboratory filled with equipment and apparatus for solving his latest whodunnit. The two-level Antiques Store contains all manner of antique minibuilds, along with an old-fashioned elevator, and Sherlock's biggest secret - a moving bookcase that creates a secret passageway into Holmes's house! Outside, the streets of London are iconified with a 'pillarbox' mailbox and classic red telephone box.
Anyone with no direct experience of the Shetland Islands, or who has not read (or seen the BBC's adaptation of) Ann Cleeves' excellent whodunnits based in the archipelago, might be forgiven for believing them to be rather Godforsaken. And a bumpy landing at Sumburgh Airport in one of Logan Air's propeller-driven connecting flights from the Scottish mainland, with the waves crashing over the menacing-looking rocks below as you look out of the window in disbelief that this really can be a final approach, would not disabuse you of that view. But a 40 minute drive north would deliver you to Lerwick's out-of-town Tesco Superstore; surely a measure of advanced civilisation in anyone's book, even if asking for garlic-stuffed olives does confirm you to be just another "soothmoother" with an under-developed sense of adventure. But, reassured by a latte and eggs Benedict at the nearby fjara cafe, you can at least start to expand your horizons with a brisk 20 minute walk up to the Knab, where you can enjoy fine views like this one over Bressay Sound.
Commentary.
These two cottages have become iconic, National Treasures, almost legendary.
The one on the left was “Tom’s Cottage” in the superb
film, “Goodnight, Mr.Tom,” that chronicles the experiences
of a young boy, William Beech, when he is evacuated from London to Weirwold, in the country, and billeted to stay with
the apparently irascible widower, Tom Oakley during World War Two.
Both have had difficulties in their lives and the story explores very honestly and graphically the struggles they must bear to adapt to yet another immense challenge.
Several Junior classes, I taught over the years, studied this story as part of their History and English curriculum.
They then watched the film version starring John Thaw as Tom and Nick Robinson as William.
They were set the task to do a Critic’s comparison of the two.
The overwhelming consensus was that they preferred the book because it inevitably painted a fuller, more detailed picture.
However, they were totally absorbed by some of the emotional drama in the film version.
Quite a number of the pupils enjoyed buying their own version of book and film, by choice.
The cottage on the right was the Vicarage of Dibley’s new female Vicar, Geraldine Granger, played by Dawn French in the hilarious hit B.B.C. Sitcom. “Vicar of Dibley.”
The crazy idiosyncrasies and eccentricities of the characters making up the Parish Council of this English village is little short of a masterpiece.
On the chalky Chiltern Hill above and to the north of the village stands Cobstone Windmill.
This featured in the film “Chitty, Chitty, Bang, Bang” starring Dick Van Dyke.
Turville was also the setting for another World War Two film, “Went the Day Well.”
Television Crime “Whodunnit” dramas like “Midsomer Murders,” “Jonathan Creek” and “Marple” have also used Turville as the archetypal English village.
And that is it, that is why it has been used as a setting for so many filmed stories.
It has the essential qualities and features set in a gorgeous, lush green Chalk valley.
Hills, fields, windmill, old half-timbered rose-covered cottages,
the classic towered Parish church and graveyard, the ubiquitous village pub, “The Bull and Butcher,” the Village Hall, school, Post Office and grocer’s and Village Square or to be more exact, Circle.
If a first-time visitor to the U.K. said to me:-
“Show me a typical, classic English village.”
Turville would be high, if not first, on my list!
I’m off to London in a minute.
In search of Miss Marple, last seen here on London’s south bank in 1963.
I’ll be gone for a week…maybe two, I’m going to visit my dad and do a few other things while I’m looking for her.
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Whodunnit? A dead male calf (6-8 months old) Humpback whale appeared today in the Gastineau Channel; the Gateway to the Capital City of Alaska.
Commentary.
These two cottages have become iconic, National Treasures, almost legendary.
The one on the left was “Tom’s Cottage” in the superb
film, “Goodnight, Mr.Tom,” that chronicles the experiences
of a young boy, William Beech, when he is evacuated from London to Weirwold, in the country, and billeted to stay with
the apparently irascible widower, Tom Oakley during World War Two.
Both have had difficulties in their lives and the story explores very honestly and graphically the struggles they must bear to adapt to yet another immense challenge.
Several Junior classes, I taught over the years, studied this story as part of their History and English curriculum.
They then watched the film version starring John Thaw as Tom and Nick Robinson as William.
They were set the task to do a Critic’s comparison of the two.
The overwhelming consensus was that they preferred the book because it inevitably painted a fuller, more detailed picture.
However, they were totally absorbed by some of the emotional drama in the film version.
Quite a number of the pupils enjoyed buying their own version of book and film, by choice.
The cottage on the right was the Vicarage of Dibley’s new female Vicar, Geraldine Granger, played by Dawn French in the hilarious hit B.B.C. Sitcom. “Vicar of Dibley.”
The crazy idiosyncrasies and eccentricities of the characters making up the Parish Council of this English village is little short of a masterpiece.
On the chalky Chiltern Hill above and to the north of the village stands Cobstone Windmill.
This featured in the film “Chitty, Chitty, Bang, Bang” starring Dick Van Dyke.
Turville was also the setting for another World War Two film, “Went the Day Well.”
Television Crime “Whodunnit” dramas like “Midsomer Murders,” “Jonathan Creek” and “Marple” have also used Turville as the archetypal English village.
And that is it, that is why it has been used as a setting for so many filmed stories.
It has the essential qualities and features set in a gorgeous, lush green Chalk valley.
Hills, fields, windmill, old half-timbered rose-covered cottages,
the classic towered Parish church and graveyard, the ubiquitous village pub, “The Bull and Butcher,” the Village Hall, school, Post Office and grocer’s and Village Square or to be more exact, Circle.
If a first-time visitor to the U.K. said to me:-
“Show me a typical, classic English village.”
Turville would be high, if not first, on my list!
whodunnit / who framed the sculpture / in red?
(rightside in front of Kunsthaus Zuerich)
answer: Jacques Lipchitz, "le chant des voyelles", 1930-1931, based on poem of the same title by Arthur Rimbaud
Commentary.
These two cottages have become iconic, National Treasures, almost legendary.
The one on the left was “Tom’s Cottage” in the superb
film, “Goodnight, Mr.Tom,” that chronicles the experiences
of a young boy, William Beech, when he is evacuated from London to Weirwold, in the country, and billeted to stay with
the apparently irascible widower, Tom Oakley during World War Two.
Both have had difficulties in their lives and the story explores very honestly and graphically the struggles they must bear to adapt to yet another immense challenge.
Several Junior classes, I taught over the years, studied this story as part of their History and English curriculum.
They then watched the film version starring John Thaw as Tom and Nick Robinson as William.
They were set the task to do a Critic’s comparison of the two.
The overwhelming consensus was that they preferred the book because it inevitably painted a fuller, more detailed picture.
However, they were totally absorbed by some of the emotional drama in the film version.
Quite a number of the pupils enjoyed buying their own version of book and film, by choice.
The cottage on the right was the Vicarage of Dibley’s new female Vicar, Geraldine Granger, played by Dawn French in the hilarious hit B.B.C. Sitcom. “Vicar of Dibley.”
The crazy idiosyncrasies and eccentricities of the characters making up the Parish Council of this English village is little short of a masterpiece.
On the chalky Chiltern Hill above and to the north of the village stands Cobstone Windmill.
This featured in the film “Chitty, Chitty, Bang, Bang” starring Dick Van Dyke.
Turville was also the setting for another World War Two film, “Went the Day Well.”
Television Crime “Whodunnit” dramas like “Midsomer Murders,” “Jonathan Creek” and “Marple” have also used Turville as the archetypal English village.
And that is it, that is why it has been used as a setting for so many filmed stories.
It has the essential qualities and features set in a gorgeous, lush green Chalk valley.
Hills, fields, windmill, old half-timbered rose-covered cottages,
the classic towered Parish church and graveyard, the ubiquitous village pub, “The Bull and Butcher,” the Village Hall, school, Post Office and grocer’s and Village Square or to be more exact, Circle.
If a first-time visitor to the U.K. said to me:-
“Show me a typical, classic English village.”
Turville would be high, if not first, on my list!
Venice, Italy
The day started early for me with my last early morning shoot in Malcesine while Mrs R slept in but I'm happy to say she had finished the packing by the time I got back (another master stroke in my own planning). After a leisurely breakfast, last check of the room for stray socks and hotel checkout, we were on our way down to the bus stop for the start of our epic journey to Venice.
Now the beauty of Mrs R's planning is research... the 484 stops in Garda and you have a lengthy change/wait for the onward journey to Peschiera Del Garda for the train station but the 483 is a direct service terminating at Malcesine so you can see the northern bus swing round the mini roundabout in the town centre and you are its first pickup on the southern trip and all for the princely sum of EUR 4.60 each - good value for 1hr 40mins bus journey. Top tip... sit on the right side and watch the world go by - it's a long bus ride!
Now, prior to our holiday we had both attempted to learn a bit of Italian... Mrs R is somewhat more linguistic than myself but I blame that squarely on Flickr and the time I spend at my PC processing pictures and composing these little notes. So far I had managed to get along with "ciao bella", "una birra" and "Il conto per pavore" but asking for train tickets and platforms and prices was a phrase too much for me so step up to the mark Mrs R. In fluent Italian she asked for two single, second class tickets direct to Venice only to be told there was only one seat available in standard on the next train but there was more availability on the following train - an hour later! How much is 1st class she asked (not that I had a clue what was going on). So we ended up buying two 1st class seats for the 13:14pm train at EUR 35.50 each! But you may scoff... tourists ripped off again but consider this, Manchester-London 1st class - £400. Mrs R books these regularly for work!
Ever the careful planner that she is, we had time to wait for the train and study our tickets for coach/seat numbers. Coach 2 seats 75 and 76. Unfortunately, our Italian train didn't believe in numbering it's coaches in a logical order and since we were in No 2, we would have expected this to be nearer the loco (so you don't have to walk far when getting off - the privileges of 1st class travel). Not wanting to miss it, we boarded near the front only to discover we had boarded coach No 5. No 2 was somewhere at the other end, near the middle!!! One thing for sure, the ticket clerk didn't con us, all 2nd class (riff-raff) seats were full as we struggled along the now departing train. I thought how very rude that all these people had suitcases strewn across the aisle as we tried to wheel our suitcases along - didn't they know we were 1st class passengers!
Eventually we got to our coach and seats to find two very posh, well dressed ladies in our seats - French I deuced by the look of distain they gave Mrs R and myself for looking like, well like tourists! (first signs of a backlash from Brexit I thought to myself). I would best describe them as "ladies that lunch" and not accustomed to effort of any description but they sure as hell had met their match. Another word in my Italian repertoire "mi scusi" for politeness or "permesso" when that doesn't work while waving our 1st class window ticket seats in their faces soon sent the two squatters back to their own seats. I did ponder breaking the ice with my customary "ciao bella" but a look from Mrs R told me not to!
So we sat back in our allocated seats and watched the Italian countryside speed by. The 1 hr 35mins journey flew by and we arrived at Venice's Santa Lucia station just after 2:40pm. Again Mrs R's forward planning came to the fore and we were soon on the No 1 Vaporetto Water Bus sailing around the Grand Canal to our hotel stop at S. Maria del Giglio... a 50 yard walk up the alley into the square and we were at our hotel. We had finally arrived in Venice!
So why have I posted a picture of a group of trains in a station with that title...
1. We couldn't afford to arrive in Venice on the steam hauled Orient Express (preferably alive and not part of an Agatha Christie Appreciation/Whodunnit Re-enactment Society outing).
2. Neither could we afford to travel across the lagoon in a classic Italian Riva Yacht - not the new fibreglass models but the proper wooden hulled and decked version that royalty and the Hollywood A-listers arrive in, straight to a Grand Canal front door 5-star hotel.
3. 1st class travel gave us our own sense of grandeur .... even if it's modern and can be had for EUR 70... bargain!
Now, where did I put that lottery ticket ......
A homage to the great Alfred Hitchcock..
The idea for this composition was not mine though,.. Creepella Gruesome gave me the idea when she glanced outside OUR rear window to see the ominous view across the way.. a ladder,.. “what’s he doing in there?”... was there a murder and he’s painting to cover up the gore on the walls and ceilings?? “What’s he doing in there?”.. I keep thinking I’m gonna see Raymond Burr rummaging around in there..
Our imaginations reel at the prospects.. no one knows of course,.. only the former tenant and the superintendent of the building.. hmmmm.
Every day, for a few months now, I have been getting flowers from a secret admirer..today I decided that I would find out who exactly this person is..
So I went and hid underneath the bridge near my house..and sure enough there he was, walking with flowers in his hands, whistling happily to himself..I couldnt stop myself from saying "Aha!" thats when he turned, the sun was setting right over his head and my camera could only capture this image..
By the time I could come out of my hiding place, the flowers were at my doorstep and he was gone!!! :-o x-(
So can you guys please help me identify who this secret admirer could be..cause for some reason, inspite of that dud mask, he seems quite familiar to me..what do you think???
Help much appreciated..
Yours truly..
KK
PS: Thank you all for being such a good sport and for trying to help me identify this guy!!! You guys are the best ;)
Here's a shot from this time last year....
Shot inspired by Murder on the dance floor and way better large
Models Jodie C,Georgia C, Beth and LMP
In explore 9.6.09
We all met in the library. Mustard, Peacock, Green, Plum and Mrs White. I'm a good judge of character and nobody looked to be the "cold-blooded killer" type.
The phone rang. It was Loosy with the lab results...Good news and slightly bad news.
Good news was my hunch was right! However that means we are locked in the manor with a crazed killer.......
I found Mr Black in the hall. He was still busy being deceased. There were traces of powder on his feet, so I sent Loosy off to the lab with samples...I had a hunch.
Wait...did those eyes just move behind that painting ?
Inveraray Castle is the seat of the Duke of Argyll.
THE NEW ROAD
The Doocot features in "The New Road", the last novel by Scottish author Neil Munro, review by R. Renton, who was born in Inveraray. From the review: "The novel is first and foremost an eighteenth century whodunnit! The story starts and finishes at the mysterious doocot at Carlunan in the grounds of Inveraray Castle."
Neil Munro, b. Crombie's Land, Inveraray 3 June 1863, d. 22 December 1930 in his house, Cromalt, in Craigendoran. Biography by his granddaughter Lesley Lendrum.
The house was named Cromalt after a location in Inveraray www.flickr.com/photos/jddorren/3616560388/in/photolist-2h...
JOHN SPLENDID
Carloonan and the doocot also feature in Munro's book "John Splendid", available free online in Project Gutenberg. Search for Carlunnan and Car-Lunnan, and doo-cot.
"John Splendid", Project Gutenberg.
THE DOOCOT / DOVECOT
This dovecote contains 410 square slab-built nesting-boxes.
From the RCAHMS Canmore record (link to full record below):
"This circular dovecot stands on a hillock which in the 18th century marked the NW end of the 'Oak Walk', terminating a vista of 1.3km from the site of the future Garden Bridge. It was designed by Roger Morris in 1747 and completed in the following year by the mason William Douglas at a cost of about £53, the superintending architect being William Adam (en.1). Robert Mylne in 1776 prepared various designs for the addition of an encircling colonnade and external dome, to give it the appearance of a peripteral temple, but these were not carried out (en.2).
The building, which conforms closely to Morris's original drawing (en.3) is 6.3m in diameter over walls 1.3m thick, and rises to a total height of 15.1m, the height to eaves-level being 9.3m. It is built of harled rubble masonry, but schist ashlar is used for the base- and eaves-courses, a projecting band at first-floor level, the cupola and the surround of the ground-floor doorway. This 'rustick door' was designed by Morris with alternate long-and-short rybats, as built, and with a flat voussoired arch, but the latter was executed as a lintel with an upper block simulating the stepped outline of a high keystone and flanking voussoirs."
canmore.org.uk/site/106723/inveraray-castle-estate-carloo...
Dovecotes are found across the world: here, for example, are the magnificent dovecotes of Iran, where I lived and worked for four memorable years.
Commentary.
These two cottages have become iconic, National Treasures, almost legendary.
The one on the left was “Tom’s Cottage” in the superb
film, “Goodnight, Mr.Tom,” that chronicles the experiences
of a young boy, William Beech, when he is evacuated from London to Weirwold, in the country, and billeted to stay with
the apparently irascible widower, Tom Oakley during World War Two.
Both have had difficulties in their lives and the story explores very honestly and graphically the struggles they must bear to adapt to yet another immense challenge.
Several Junior classes, I taught over the years, studied this story as part of their History and English curriculum.
They then watched the film version starring John Thaw as Tom and Nick Robinson as William.
They were set the task to do a Critic’s comparison of the two.
The overwhelming consensus was that they preferred the book because it inevitably painted a fuller, more detailed picture.
However, they were totally absorbed by some of the emotional drama in the film version.
Quite a number of the pupils enjoyed buying their own version of book and film, by choice.
The cottage on the right was the Vicarage of Dibley’s new female Vicar, Geraldine Granger, played by Dawn French in the hilarious hit B.B.C. Sitcom. “Vicar of Dibley.”
The crazy idiosyncrasies and eccentricities of the characters making up the Parish Council of this English village is little short of a masterpiece.
On the chalky Chiltern Hill above and to the north of the village stands Cobstone Windmill.
This featured in the film “Chitty, Chitty, Bang, Bang” starring Dick Van Dyke.
Turville was also the setting for another World War Two film, “Went the Day Well.”
Television Crime “Whodunnit” dramas like “Midsomer Murders,” “Jonathan Creek” and “Marple” have also used Turville as the archetypal English village.
And that is it, that is why it has been used as a setting for so many filmed stories.
It has the essential qualities and features set in a gorgeous, lush green Chalk valley.
Hills, fields, windmill, old half-timbered rose-covered cottages,
the classic towered Parish church and graveyard, the ubiquitous village pub, “The Bull and Butcher,” the Village Hall, school, Post Office and grocer’s and Village Square or to be more exact, Circle.
If a first-time visitor to the U.K. said to me:-
“Show me a typical, classic English village.”
Turville would be high, if not first, on my list!
Inspired by the Agatha Christie novel 'And Then There Were None'.
A tall, narrow house stands on a small island surrounded by crashing waves, illuminated by a large, bright full moon in the dark sky. The lights from the house windows give a sense of warmth amidst the midnight setting.
9F 92212 hauls a Whodunnit Special, AKA the MHR's Murder Mystery train, through the Hampshire countryside near Ropley
The beauty of its appearance belies the fact that, for 12 years, this house was home to America's most prolific killer. Jessica Fletcher dispatched friends, family and neighbors at such a pace that the small town of Cabot Cove had a murder rate 50% higher than Honduras, then the worlds most dangerous country. Of course, her real genius lay in devising elaborate "whodunnits" such that each and every time she was able to pin the blame on some unsuspecting patsy...
[Explore #140, Apr 16th, 2014]
Based on the iconic home of the world's greatest detective, this modular comprises Sherlock Holmes's 221B Baker Street house and a mysterious Antiques Store next-door. Sherlock's home includes an ornate Victorian living room and bedroom, a rooftop terrace (with a greenhouse, telescope, and table for afternoon tea), and Sherlock's laboratory filled with equipment and apparatus for solving his latest whodunnit. The two-level Antiques Store contains all manner of antique minibuilds, along with an old-fashioned elevator, and Sherlock's biggest secret - a moving bookcase that creates a secret passageway into Holmes's house! Outside, the streets of London are iconified with a 'pillarbox' mailbox and classic red telephone box.
"And So to Murder" is a mystery novel by the American writer John Dickson Carr (1906–1977), who published it under the name of Carter Dickson. It is a whodunnit and features the series detective Sir Henry Merrivale and Scotland Yard Chief Inspector Humphrey Masters.
hfdt :)
Can you guess whodunnit?
Our local librarian was quite happy for us to do this shot. She pretty much left us to it, unlike the other library users who had a jolly good gander at our antics.
Commentary.
These two cottages have become iconic, National Treasures, almost legendary.
The one on the left was “Tom’s Cottage” in the superb
film, “Goodnight, Mr.Tom,” that chronicles the experiences
of a young boy, William Beech, when he is evacuated from London to Weirwold, in the country, and billeted to stay with
the apparently irascible widower, Tom Oakley during World War Two.
Both have had difficulties in their lives and the story explores very honestly and graphically the struggles they must bear to adapt to yet another immense challenge.
Several Junior classes, I taught over the years, studied this story as part of their History and English curriculum.
They then watched the film version starring John Thaw as Tom and Nick Robinson as William.
They were set the task to do a Critic’s comparison of the two.
The overwhelming consensus was that they preferred the book because it inevitably painted a fuller, more detailed picture.
However, they were totally absorbed by some of the emotional drama in the film version.
Quite a number of the pupils enjoyed buying their own version of book and film, by choice.
The cottage on the right was the Vicarage of Dibley’s new female Vicar, Geraldine Granger, played by Dawn French in the hilarious hit B.B.C. Sitcom. “Vicar of Dibley.”
The crazy idiosyncrasies and eccentricities of the characters making up the Parish Council of this English village is little short of a masterpiece.
On the chalky Chiltern Hill above and to the north of the village stands Cobstone Windmill.
This featured in the film “Chitty, Chitty, Bang, Bang” starring Dick Van Dyke.
Turville was also the setting for another World War Two film, “Went the Day Well.”
Television Crime “Whodunnit” dramas like “Midsomer Murders,” “Jonathan Creek” and “Marple” have also used Turville as the archetypal English village.
And that is it, that is why it has been used as a setting for so many filmed stories.
It has the essential qualities and features set in a gorgeous, lush green Chalk valley.
Hills, fields, windmill, old half-timbered rose-covered cottages,
the classic towered Parish church and graveyard, the ubiquitous village pub, “The Bull and Butcher,” the Village Hall, school, Post Office and grocer’s and Village Square or to be more exact, Circle.
If a first-time visitor to the U.K. said to me:-
“Show me a typical, classic English village.”
Turville would be high, if not first, on my list!
Commentary.
These two cottages have become iconic, National Treasures, almost legendary.
The one on the left was “Tom’s Cottage” in the superb
film, “Goodnight, Mr.Tom,” that chronicles the experiences
of a young boy, William Beech, when he is evacuated from London to Weirwold, in the country, and billeted to stay with
the apparently irascible widower, Tom Oakley during World War Two.
Both have had difficulties in their lives and the story explores very honestly and graphically the struggles they must bear to adapt to yet another immense challenge.
Several Junior classes, I taught over the years, studied this story as part of their History and English curriculum.
They then watched the film version starring John Thaw as Tom and Nick Robinson as William.
They were set the task to do a Critic’s comparison of the two.
The overwhelming consensus was that they preferred the book because it inevitably painted a fuller, more detailed picture.
However, they were totally absorbed by some of the emotional drama in the film version.
Quite a number of the pupils enjoyed buying their own version of book and film, by choice.
The cottage on the right was the Vicarage of Dibley’s new female Vicar, Geraldine Granger, played by Dawn French in the hilarious hit B.B.C. Sitcom. “Vicar of Dibley.”
The crazy idiosyncrasies and eccentricities of the characters making up the Parish Council of this English village is little short of a masterpiece.
On the chalky Chiltern Hill above and to the north of the village stands Cobstone Windmill.
This featured in the film “Chitty, Chitty, Bang, Bang” starring Dick Van Dyke.
Turville was also the setting for another World War Two film, “Went the Day Well.”
Television Crime “Whodunnit” dramas like “Midsomer Murders,” “Jonathan Creek” and “Marple” have also used Turville as the archetypal English village.
And that is it, that is why it has been used as a setting for so many filmed stories.
It has the essential qualities and features set in a gorgeous, lush green Chalk valley.
Hills, fields, windmill, old half-timbered rose-covered cottages,
the classic towered Parish church and graveyard, the ubiquitous village pub, “The Bull and Butcher,” the Village Hall, school, Post Office and grocer’s and Village Square or to be more exact, Circle.
If a first-time visitor to the U.K. said to me:-
“Show me a typical, classic English village.”
Turville would be high, if not first, on my list!