Swings never get old
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amberdreamsHad a lovely day out with my cousin on her birthday on Wednesday and unbeknownst to us her new fella was vidding us being big kids on the swings we found in this tiny Suffolk village...
Two 52 year olds thoroughly testing the playground equipment to the limits of its stress tolerances!
The main reason we were there early enough to walk along and find the swings was because I'd dragged them to see a lovely church I've been wanting to see for ages. St Mary's Thornham Parva has 11th C Norman bits, a thatched tower and roof, but it's famous for it's 14th C rare wall paintings, and a lovely 14th C altar retable. I'm not sure what my cousin and her man really thought, but they did a good job of pretending it was fascinating! I'm actually quite amazed the church is open all the time, though it did have some sort of security system protecting the retable, which was reassuring. I suppose they don't have to worry about theft of lead from their roof with it being thatched, though the insurance gains on the one hand are probably offset by the increased fire risk!
After the church visit in Thornham Parva and the swings in Thornham Magna, we met up with another old friend for a very nice pub lunch in the Four Horseshoes, which claims to be 11th C too.
And I took some photos:
The south porch and an avenue of ancient lime trees
Norman window on the left, wall paintings just about visible. I didn't go too crazy inside the church as there are already some excellent photos on Flickr by an Ipswich guy called Simon K.
And the 14th C retable with what looks like a fairly ancient chair (I reckon 16th-17th C).
The saint on the left is supposed to be King Edmund. He's Suffolk's saint, martyred by the Danes supposedly in my ex work colleague's back garden in Hoxne. As my hubby pointed out, he does look rather camp!
As an aside, why do I have a tag for penis songs?????
Two 52 year olds thoroughly testing the playground equipment to the limits of its stress tolerances!
The main reason we were there early enough to walk along and find the swings was because I'd dragged them to see a lovely church I've been wanting to see for ages. St Mary's Thornham Parva has 11th C Norman bits, a thatched tower and roof, but it's famous for it's 14th C rare wall paintings, and a lovely 14th C altar retable. I'm not sure what my cousin and her man really thought, but they did a good job of pretending it was fascinating! I'm actually quite amazed the church is open all the time, though it did have some sort of security system protecting the retable, which was reassuring. I suppose they don't have to worry about theft of lead from their roof with it being thatched, though the insurance gains on the one hand are probably offset by the increased fire risk!
After the church visit in Thornham Parva and the swings in Thornham Magna, we met up with another old friend for a very nice pub lunch in the Four Horseshoes, which claims to be 11th C too.
And I took some photos:
The south porch and an avenue of ancient lime trees
Norman window on the left, wall paintings just about visible. I didn't go too crazy inside the church as there are already some excellent photos on Flickr by an Ipswich guy called Simon K.
And the 14th C retable with what looks like a fairly ancient chair (I reckon 16th-17th C).
The saint on the left is supposed to be King Edmund. He's Suffolk's saint, martyred by the Danes supposedly in my ex work colleague's back garden in Hoxne. As my hubby pointed out, he does look rather camp!
As an aside, why do I have a tag for penis songs?????
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Date: 2013-02-02 12:46 am (UTC)Good on u swinging!!!!...live and laugh me says...and I want a penis song:P
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Date: 2013-02-02 08:59 am (UTC)I admit, my interest has always been in history older than c1600, so when I went to the States I beelined for the Mesa Verde national park because the Pueblo Indian villages really grabbed me - while the 19th C church my Illinois friend took us to in Chicago, not so much. It's one reason I really wouldn't want to live in Australia - too far away from the good stuff!
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Date: 2013-02-02 10:12 am (UTC)Forget my state, which became a state in 1889, that chair is older than my country - and gorgeous, by the way. And since you're a Viking expert, I don't think we should discount them ;)
America would have to seem odd coming from structures of that age. Last year, I took a tour of the oldest remaining residential house in my state, which happens to be here on the island - it was built in the 1890s.
But I come from an area that is rich in geological activity and still has old growth forests - that and hearing the epic tales passed down from the local Native American traditions is the history I grew up with and is probably the reason I've never missed the sense of age brought by the beautiful buildings of Europe. Glaciers and rivers carving valleys and tectonic plates raising mountains pretty thoroughly manages to dwarf any human timescale.
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Date: 2013-02-02 09:16 pm (UTC)Oh well, you might not have posted your swinging pics but the church ones are fabulous. There is so much that we can be proud of, and pleased with, in this sceptred isle of ours.
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