I visited an old friend who lives in a vicarage in Alconbury near Huntingdon. She is responsible for the souls of 8 villages. She showed me her “patch” as she calls it, and we walked the dogs several times along public footpaths, through farmers’ fields, up and down dale. So close to London yet miles away in time and space.
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- View from Buckworth
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- Buckworth church
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- The vicar looks out on a Rape seed field. (Canola for all you Canadians)
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- Sunlight coming through the stainglass window from the other side of the church.
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- Alconbury church.
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- Richard winds the clock once a week.
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- Steps up to the bells.
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- The view from the tower.
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- Vicar’s Jack Russell terriors.
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- Wooden ceiling with angels.
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- The clock from the outslde.
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- Archeological site where the new porch is being built.
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- Thatch roof.
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- The Vicar drove me to see her “patch.”
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- The 8 parishes in Mary’s patch.
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- I saw lots of pheasants.
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- Llamas, a new English crop?
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- On the way to Littel Gidding made famous in recent times by T. S. Eliot
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- Lambing season.
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- the retreat house.
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- The view from the retreat house at Little Gidding.
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- William Morris wallpaper in the retreat house.
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- Little GIdding church seen from the retreat house kitchen.
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- Little Gidding church has an interesting history.
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- View from inside the door. Long and narrow wooden interior.
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- I didn’t follow this advice, though perhaps I should have.
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- “Redundant” church means it’s not used much. .
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- Converted windmill house.
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- Great Gidding church.
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- Old Baptist church . . .
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- . . . and yard.
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- Old Quaker graveyard.
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- Walking the dogs through fields.
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- Kites overhead.
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- Medieval field has ridges of earth marking off the different crops.
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- Gypsy ponies.
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- Back to Alconbury.
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- Vicarage kitchen window.
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- View from the living room.
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- Huntingdon train station on my way back to London.
