Bits and pieces

This is the place for posts which don’t fit into other categories… unless they were a category all to themselves!

Dark hedges

Sometimes you visit a place and you don’t have to have much imagination to find it atmospheric. Such a place is dark Hedges near Armoy in County Antrim; we visited there early afternoon on a bright through sunless day. Even with light streaming in through the trees and the occasional passing car it was an […]

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The missing gnomon

Was this a doorway, was it blocked up for some reason? It is on the south side of the church of St Nicholas in Uphill, the village where I live. I think the hole was for the gnomon of a sun-dial, the pointer which cast a shadow; you can see lines which would have indicated […]

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