Wow, szabs! What a picture!

szabs, all of those pictures have been amazing and fascinating, as have your descriptions of what is going on. A little glimpse of something most of us would not otherwise have seen.

I am glad you are enjoying them Ertrum & Christina.

Child making a ball of wax from the Penitents candle.

Do I guess right that children try to build the biggest ball of wax they can from the penitents' candles? Looks like that child's got quite a good sized one going.

What do they then do with the balls szabs?

This is not one of my best photographs. This isn't even the photograph I went to take but Easter Sunday in the middle of England was overcast at best and wet at worst - and wet is not good for cameras. Nothing daunted I drove across the county to see if the weather was better twenty miles south of here, only it wasn't much. I wanted to take a picture of the front of this house but you have to pay to get into the grounds and it was over £8! I'm sorry y'all but I declined to cough up as I've been there, seen that, and didn't want to pay to get one picture. So I took a photo of a wing at the back of the house and hope that you will all accept that much, especially you Americans for whom I drove through constant drizzle in the first place. This is the rear of Sulgrave Manor. And why should that appeal to the Americans? Well, Sulgrave Manor was the home of a man called Lawrence, whose great-great-great-great-great-grandson was called George. This is the home of the Washingtons.

The house is now run by a trust, and is dedicated in perpetuity to the peoples of both the United Kingdom and of the United States. Sulgrave is one of the few places in the UK where the Union Flag and the Stars & Stripes fly side by side, day in day out. Only you can't see the flags, they're at the front.

I just wanted to say "Happy Easter!"

Oh Flopsy how great is that! I love looking round houses when I come back, and gardens too, of course. Is it inhabited? National Trust?
Happy Easter to you too Liz!

Happy easter Liz and everyone, and passover.

One of my favourite views, the office blocks in Croydon. The best view is from the flyover but you can't walk up there.

It's been a tough day on the Copago ranch

Aw , what a darling!

It's not National Trust, Ren, it is run by a private trust that was set up to mark the 100th anniversary of the Treaty of Ghent, celebrating peace between the UK and USA. I don't think anyone lives there, none of the Washingtons anyway - but some of them are buried in the village church.

Definitely worth a visit, I reckon, next time I come over.Thanks

Before 1964 our road signs were either local panels of destinations or maps like these. This has been repainted to look like new beneath the layer of dirt.

Something new in town a point for charging electric vehicles



I have no idea how the system works

I presume electric cars plug into them, but I have no idea what the drivers do for the 4-20 hours it takes (depending on the model) while they're off the road. Maybe a question I need to ask directly but if anyone knows I have mentioned it here now.

If you haven't seen the centre of Orpington this is what it looks like.

Electric cars. The public charge points tend to charge at a higher rate than a domestic power point so charging up doesn't take as long. Whilst some are free most electric vehicle owners get memberhip to a "network" which, for an annual charge, gives them things like free parking, free charging leads, some emergency back-up, but they do still pay for the electricity they use. At the moment these network points are still mainly in London.

How does a goat get from one field to another - via the goat bridge of course. No trolls under this one though.

Great opportunity to photoshop a troll in there! But what's the story behind the goat bridge, Christina?

It's on a local rare breeds farm which is open to the public. The bridge goes over a narrow road used by both the farmer and members of the public and goats are in the fields either side of it. To let them cross from one to the other without closing off the road he built the bridge, so they can come and go from field to field as they pleae.

ohhh lol it really is a bridge .. I thought it was going to be some story like Puck in Ireland!

This is a country which builds ramps under cattle grids so that hedgehogs can get out if they fall into the pit - a goat bridge didn't surprise me at all!

The very busy dual carriageway close to us has badger tunnels under it so they can cross safely.

A railway bridge in St Mary Cray

You'd think butter wouldn't melt in this horse's mouth, she looks so innocent with her head stuck into the hollow of a decaying tree stump. But thirty seconds before this she had chewed my camera bag!

Tricksy Horses!

SO you shot it?

So I rubbed her nose - and then I shot her. I think that in the photo you can still see her grinning.

and for that reason I am very glad to be British

Me too ren.