Just a quickie here. We went up to Lyveden New Bield on Sunday, and ended-up having teas and hot chocolates out on a lawn. They gave us wooden sticks as stirrers, and a kind lady came out with a tin of sweets. Which was very nice. The Boys soon ran off to continue a sword fight on one of garden mounts, leaving this behind on the iron table. I thought: how good is that, even down to the mop of hair made by a piece of uneaten (strangely) chocolate.
Ooh yes you're right Mr.Handley. One of my favourite landmarks; or perhaps landing marker for alien spacecraft, the White Horse only being seen as it should be from the air.
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I am a designer, writer and photographer who spends all his time looking at England, particularly buildings and the countryside. But I have a leaning towards the slightly odd and neglected, the unsung elements that make England such an interesting place to live in. I am the author and photographer of over 25 books, in particular Unmitigated England (Adelphi 2006), More from Unmitigated England (Adelphi 2007), Cross Country (Wiley 2011), The Cigarette Papers (Frances Lincoln 2012), Preposterous Erections (Frances Lincoln 2012) and English Allsorts (Adelphi 2015)
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Cross Country
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More from Unmitigated England
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Reminds me of the Uffington White Horse!
Ooh yes you're right Mr.Handley. One of my favourite landmarks; or perhaps landing marker for alien spacecraft, the White Horse only being seen as it should be from the air.
I don't suppose your kind lady was Greek and named Helen by any chance ?
A perfect simulacrum of the cover of XTC's 'English Settlement'. Nice.
Apparently it's a lama.
WH: Where's his robes, then? (Oh, you mean the Andean pack animal not the Tibetan spiritual leader.)
Did they have lamas in Bronze Age Britain?!Lugging the woad from encampment to encampment!!
They had to be dedicated to the horse to leave the piece of Chocolate. I think my children would have had a horse with no hair!
Haha - Love this, if you ever make it big and need
financial advice then let us know! I think you should move to Bristol, Thriving community of creatives here!
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