Pics from your State Sanctioned Exercise.

[SpookyFrank]

 

[BillRiver]

In the early afternoon today I took shelter from the rain as I walked along Mare Street, in Space Studios and Cafe.

This poster was in their bathroom and I liked it:



And this ventilation thingy, which I also liked, was on the ceiling of their bathroom:

 

[BillRiver]

This evening I had a very pleasant stroll along the New River with a charming fellow human, and we saw these:













We also saw some bats, rats, and spiders, but I did not photograph them.

 

[Clair De Lune]

I took my sad brain out for a stroll. It helped.

 

[BillRiver]

Ever since she was killed, at this junction, on 20th January 2015, this woman's friends and family have maintained and regularly updated this memorial to her.
I did not have the pleasure of meeting her but I too lost someone in horribly similar circumstances, on 4th June 2008.
Even if I hadn't, I'm sure I would find this incredibly moving all the same.

 

[mx wcfc]

Had to drive half way across the county to drop off the van for its solar panel so popped over the border to Petworth.
It has wonderful old trees


The house was only partly open. This is in the gallery

 

[Chilli.s]

More about the lost village of Radcliffe. Most coal mines had their own brickworks or brick supplies and the bricks were marked during production. The bank of the river Coquet appear to have been rebuilt using rubble that includes bricks from...

 

[hash tag]

Had to drive half way across the county to drop off the van for its solar panel so popped over the border to Petworth.
It has wonderful old trees
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The house was only partly open. This is in the gallery
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Petworth on the outside is simply big. Inside it's stuffed with great, classical art. Well worth a visit if and when fully open.

 

[mx wcfc]

Petworth on the outside is simply big. Inside it's stuffed with great, classical art. Well worth a visit if and when fully open.

I'm not a big fan of NT properties, or classical art, but I do find things like the kitchens and so on interesting - seeing how they made it all work before electrickery.
The dairy at Lanhydrock (sp) for example, with spring water flowing round a shelf to keep milk and butter etc cool.
Lots of useful ideas for the post apocalypse survival centre.

 

[hash tag]

Seeing how the servents lived in some of these places is especially interesting. Did you get a cuppa at Petworth? The kitchens are separate from the main house to keep the smells away, connected by a special tunnel.

 

[mx wcfc]

Seeing how the servants lived in some of these places is especially interesting. Did you get a cuppa at Petworth? The kitchens are separate from the main house to keep the smells away, connected by a special tunnel.

The only inside bits that were open were the Galleries, and the café in the servants quarters building (and the usual shop) - we peered through a door into a kitchen in the servants quarters but it was roped off and it was disappointing not to see more of that stuff. I expect we'll wander back when it's properly open.

 

[hash tag]

If you like servants quarters, ever been to Osterley Park? An amazingly symmetrical house, but more pertinently, the kitchens there have the best view of any place I know. They look straight out across the grounds with a double if not triple aspect. Very good light and ventilation.

 

[mx wcfc]

If you like servants quarters, ever been to Osterley Park? An amazingly symmetrical house, but more pertinently, the kitchens there have the best view of any place I know. They look straight out across the grounds with a double if not triple aspect. Very good light and ventilation.

Yes, but years ago, when we lived in London.

 

[Ground Elder]

 

[hash tag]

You know you are properly in the country when you see honesty boxes

 

[not a trot]

My little friend enjoying some shortcake.

 

[Elpenor]

You know you are properly in the country when you see honesty boxes

I live opposite one for eggs but I’ve never even thought to use it. Don’t have any coins

 

[BillRiver]

Glued another heart in memory of my dog Ruby. This one's outside the library on Homerton High Street:



Then went to the pottery studio at Core Arts where I glazed another nine and started shaping even more.



On my way home I popped into Springfield Park where I glued another heart by the pond, and was inspected by some Egyptian geese:

 

[Boru]

Stone circle and burial mound.. with dandelions.. not created by me.. on beach this evening..

 

[ginger_syn]

Tonight

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

The only inside bits that were open were the Galleries, and the café in the servants quarters building (and the usual shop) - we peered through a door into a kitchen in the servants quarters but it was roped off and it was disappointing not to see more of that stuff. I expect we'll wander back when it's properly open.

The kitchens building was my favourite but there. There is also an excellent ha-ha in front of the house.

 

[iona]

 

[BillRiver]

At midday I went to the Curve Gallery in the Barbican to see the Claudia Andujar exhibition (loved it, definitely recommend!).

 

[BillRiver]

Then after lunch I went for a swim in the pond at Hampstead Heath.

 

[Chilli.s]

Another walk in the dunes, i'm hooked on the smell of the place

 

[Clair De Lune]

 

[Doodler]

Quick trip to Castle Acre in Norfolk.

 

[BillRiver]

Saturday afternoon stroll around Abney Park cemetery:

 

[Chilli.s]

On my walks I'm always looking for treasures. And yesterday found my first mesolithic/bronze age worked flint. Now it isn't very impressive to look at, and it is tiny but it passes all the series of tests that archeology suggests for out of context finds. It's a recognised type of tool called a thumbnail scraper. Found in dirt dug up by a rabbit.



Also swans

 

[Bahnhof Strasse]

Early Sunday bike ride…

Godalming heliport




And joy, it is mid-July but the bridlepaths are mud baths that are covered in stingers and brambles