Things we did before gardening

[Logan]

That's funny @Tetters

 

[Logan]

Annie was talking about a place in America Logan. When the Americans landed in their ''new country'' they couldn't think of any good names for their new towns that they built, so they copied lots of our towns and called them the same. After that, they thought that they had named the towns, and that the English people were copying them. Now, a surprising number of them think that we speak bad English because we don't speak the same way as they do.

Yes i know @Tetters

 

[Tetters]

@Tetters I suppose " telling a Porky" means telling a big fat lie ?
I did the same with my first job with "Uncle Tom". "How long have you been riding?," he asked. "Oh my Daddy got me a pony when I was 5, so, 8 years." (My Dad died when I was 2 !!)

In actuality it was my third time that day apart from sitting on the retired Draft horses one of our neighbors had on their farm. They were retired, as were the horses and I used to come to their farm, play with their Bulldog and Boxer dog, then eventually climbed up the fence in order to get onto their very kid friendly Belgian gelding. After a while he'd walk off to graze with me riding bareback. I was so brazen because the house window shades were always drawn and you never saw a car there.

After a few years of this I was at Lucky's Supermarket, a tiny little mostly bread and eggs store on the corner of my street when the lady in front of me at the checkout dropped a $5 bill out of her purse. I picked it up and said: " Excuse me, Ma'm you dropped this. " She looked at me and said: " Oh, I know you !! You're that little girl who's always playing with my dogs and riding my horses . "

I was never so mortified !! Caught in the act!!

I reckon she was really quite fond of seeing you with her animals actually.

 

[Anniekay]

I reckon she was really quite fond of seeing you with her animals actually.

At least she never did go and tell my mother !! I wouldn't have sat for a week if she had !!

 

[Zigs]

I've found a few more work pics, inside the tower of Saint Edmund's Church in Salisbury.

I did a report on some work that needed seeing to. The report enabled them to get funding to actually do the work.

First is the ringing room...



And the mechanism of the church clock...



The tower itself is built from a type of hard chalk called "Clunch" it's one of the few stones hard enough for building on Salisbury Plain. The dark lumps between are flints, which occur in the chalk and are much harder.

Above the ringing chamber are the bells...



Someone recently had blocked up one of the louvres (the window through which the sound gets out) with concrete blocks which had collapsed and were in danger of falling through the ceiling

 

[Zigs]

This is looking down from the tower of Long Sutton Church in Somerset. Had some work to do on the roof.



We're looking at the Nave of the church, the 2 isles either side and then the North and South porch roofs.

During a funeral the North and South porch doors were both opened in case the devil followed the coffin in through the South door. He'd then go straight out the North door as the coffin turned and went towards the Chancel

With new health and safety rules requiring buildings open to the public to have toilets, a lot of churches are having to block up the North porches to put toilets in.

This means the Devil is in a lot of churches these days and can't get out

 

[Anniekay]

This is looking down from the tower of Long Sutton Church in Somerset. Had some work to do on the roof.

View attachment 1886

We're looking at the Nave of the church, the 2 isles either side and then the North and South porch roofs.

During a funeral the North and South porch doors were both opened in case the devil followed the coffin in through the South door. He'd then go straight out the North door as the coffin turned and went towards the Chancel

With new health and safety rules requiring buildings open to the public to have toilets, a lot of churches are having to block up the North porches to put toilets in.

This means the Devil is in a lot of churches these days and can't get out

They just need a sign at the door: Visit your own loo before you come through.

No such rules like that in the States. Heck, church only lasts an hour.

 

[Zigs]

They just need a sign at the door: Visit your own loo before you come through.

No such rules like that in the States. Heck, church only lasts an hour.

If only that would work here

I passed out in church once

This bit is good, if you look closely you can see the little door at the top of the stair turret that allows access onto the Isle roof

 

[Zigs]

On another job on Topsham Church in Devon, we had to build a new doorway in a Victorian extension of the church. This had been built over the graveyard and one of the first things we dug up was a human pelvis.

This was slightly more interesting though, on the underside of a slab of stone we found these letters carved...

The Chi-Rho (☧) is a Christian symbol that is made up of the first two letters of the Greek word for Christ, Christòs (ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ), which are chi (Χ) and rho (Ρ):

 

[Anniekay]

On another job on Topsham Church in Devon, we had to build a new doorway in a Victorian extension of the church. This had been built over the graveyard and one of the first things we dug up was a human pelvis.

This was slightly more interesting though, on the underside of a slab of stone we found these letters carved...

View attachment 1905

That is very cool !! Did the archaeology team come out and start a dig?

 

[Zigs]

That is very cool !! Did the archaeology team come out and start a dig?

Not on this occasion but we ofter worked alongside archaeologists. Made me giggle to myself when they'd ask me about things they'd found. I suppose working with things is better than trying to learn it at college out of a book

 

[Zigs]

Been looking around the internet and rounding up some of my old photos of Churches that I've worked on

This one is in Dorset. Whitchurch Canonicorum.



I did some re plastering after the roof had leaked and blew all the plaster in the corner of the South Isle. This is it after painting with soft distemper.



The Architect said if he hadn't known that all the plaster had been stripped off, he would have thought that it was original plaster

In the churchyard is the grave of Georgi Markov. The Bulgarian writer, broadcaster and playwrite who was murdered by the secret police using ricin. I've always felt a connection to him as he was murdered on my 16th birthday (I still remember that day). He was only 49.

When I moved to Dorset I tended his grave whenever was able.

 

[Anniekay]

Been looking around the internet and rounding up some of my old photos of Churches that I've worked on

This one is in Dorset. Whitchurch Canonicorum.

View attachment 1908

I did some re plastering after the roof had leaked and blew all the plaster in the corner of the South Isle. This is it after painting with soft distemper.

View attachment 1909

The Architect said if he hadn't known that all the plaster had been stripped off, he would have thought that it was original plaster

In the churchyard is the grave of Georgi Markov. The Bulgarian writer, broadcaster and playwrite who was murdered by the secret police using ricin. I've always felt a connection to him as he was murdered on my 16th birthday (I still remember that day). He was only 49.

When I moved to Dorset I tended his grave whenever was able.

View attachment 1910

Aww, that's so sweet that you tend to his grave

 

[Zigs]

Aww, that's so sweet that you tend to his grave

Not anymore I'm afraid Annie, I live on the other side of the country now.

Also at Whitchurch was the Shrine of Saint Witte...



The 3 holes under the stone coffin are for placing affected limbs in, in the belief that the Saint would heal them.

When the coffin was opened some time ago it was found to contain the skeleton of a Saxon Woman.

People put offerings and notes in the holes even today.

 

[Sean Regan]

Annie was talking about a place in America Logan. When the Americans landed in their ''new country'' they couldn't think of any good names for their new towns that they built, so they copied lots of our towns and called them the same. After that, they thought that they had named the towns, and that the English people were copying them. Now, a surprising number of them think that we speak bad English because we don't speak the same way as they do.

Our daughter lives in Staines. It's close to Windsor. We often used to visit her. We'd go shopping in Windsor sometimes.
Once I parked on the top road opposite the castle. The brickwork of the walls had recently been cleaned. The shops were built well over 100 years or so ago in a period style, but they have modern facias. As we got out of the car, there were some American women tourists coming out of an hotel. I heard one say to another. "I wonder why they built the castle so close to the shops?"