Monday 28th July - bits and pieces

 It's been pretty noisy all day, as the groundworks progress next door. At the end of the day there were a couple of deeeeeep trenches in the garden; maybe five feet deep?

These few houses along the street were built in a small dip in the contour of the original field. You wouldn't know it now, because they just built the foundation walls up and up and up, and then back-filled to make them level with the rest. But that does have consequences when addingvan extension! 

There was a pause in the afternoon; being nosey interested we got chatting with the foreman who was looking pensive at the hole.

'Pipes', he said. 'There's always pipes where you're not expecting the. I've got to figure out what to do with them'.

Then, at about 4pm the noise changed;

A large pickup truck with a grabber attachment came and took the rubble away.

Peace descended at about 4:30. The cat will find his world has changed; I expect he'll find his way across the trenches and over the little steel plate bridge to the cat flap in the back door and his supper...

South Stoke

(The church where I found the Isaiah chapter 41 v 10 handholds;)

Our son sent me this;

"South Stoke! It's lit entirely by candlelight - several chandeliers, and candlestands every few rows of pews. The harmonium is pedal-powered and has its own somewhat theatrical pair of candles. When I visited a couple of months ago the windows each had candle arches made up of different sized jam-jars."

And also some photographs;

Music

It's nearly bedtime... so I'm trying to think of something quickly; How about Julia Fischer playing the slow movement of Mendelsohn's violin concerto;