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click photo to enlarge Lincolnshire has many notable medieval churches, and those of the Fens are particularly remarkable. They were buil...

click photo to enlarge I was reading a piece recently wherein a writer was arguing that all mankind's actions are motivated, in some ...

click photo to enlarge A few weeks ago I was well into the third day of cutting an area of rampant ivy from a vertical-lap wooden fence w...

click photo to enlarge Standing in Quadring churchyard the other morning, my fingers chilly on the cold metal of the camera, I started to...

click photo to enlarge Today's photograph was taken about seventy yards from and a few minutes before the shot in the previous post. ...

click photo to enlarge Anyone with an interest in English church architecture will be familiar with the main gazetteers and guides that d...

click photo to enlarge The ancient yew tree shown in today's photograph is estimated to be about 1500 years old. It stands in Much Ma...

click photo to enlarge "My greatest fear: repetition" Max Frisch (1911-1991), Swiss author and critic I find it hard to unde...

click photo to enlarge It is estimated that between a quarter and a half of all bluebells (Hyacinthoides non-scripta ) are found in th...

click photos to enlarge Due to my power supply failure I've been publishing blog posts from my second computer for several days now....

click photo to enlarge In a piece about Ropsley church that I posted in 2009 I reflected on the thoughts that go through my mind when I...

click photo to enlarge When I lived in Hull and the weather was foggy I often heard the sound of the ships' foghorns as they negotia...

click photo to enlarge Ever since July 2010 I've used Blogger's in-house hit counter to analyse the traffic that comes to this b...

click photo to enlarge With 22mm (35mm equivalent) I couldn't do it, but with 17mmm I can. What is it? The answer is fit this church int...

click photo to enlarge In a post a while ago I commented that anyone wanting to erect a permanent memorial to themselves could do worse...

click photo to enlarge There's a lot to admire about an overgrown churchyard. To start with there's a certain harmony between a plac...

click photo to enlarge Last week, with a group of people, I visited a number of Lincolnshire churches. One of those on our intinerary was St...

click photo to enlarge Go into any Lincolnshire churchyard towards the end of March and aspects of the scene above will meet your eyes. Ther...

click photo to enlarge Churchyards are, for the most part, a reflection of the place, time and congregation of a locality. In cities and man...

click photo to enlarge The county of Lincolnshire has more than 200 place-names that end with "by" (pronounced "bi" as i...