Churches That Are Locked

Three churches that I've found locked recently. I've linked them to Simon Knott's Suffolk Churches website as he was lucky at visiting several years ago.

The first is Hunston ,in the small lanes north of the busy A14 between Stowmarket and Bury St Edmunds

The church is still in use for one service a month but otherwise locked. 

 Simon Knott was able to get into this small thatched church below which is at Harleston not far from Stowmarket, in 2019, but now it's kept locked except for the occasional service.

Finally, Thwaite, a church not far from my village  that isn't used at all but still stands looking sad and neglected. Simon Knott found a keyholder in 2011 and the back story but nothing has been done since.

These faces - headstops - are in the porch, the only bit open to see.

This small building stands closer to the road, it was once used as a Parish Room for the villagers but now boarded up and unused. 

 

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Books To Read in The Sunshine

 Thought I'd share another page from the Miranda Mills Commonplace Book as today is going to be a hot sunny day here in Mid Suffolk.

Thank you to whoever it was who mentioned that she explains more about the books she has included on her youtube channel. Interesting to watch as long as you can get past her 'adoring' everything! and can avoid the envy of the bookshelves behind her in her vlogs!

I've read five out of the six in Mirandas list although Emma was read about 50 years ago. A Month in the Country is on my shelves to be read again sometime and The Greengage Summer was  re-read last year when I read books with the seasons in their titles. The Serviceberry is a very samll book borrowed from the library just last month but for some reason I only skimmed through it - I need to borrow it again to find out why. The Light Years was read maybe 15 years ago and while writing this I came across details of Louisa Young [Niece of Elizabeth Jane Howard] who has written the sixth book of the Cazalet Chronicles which will be published in September [The Light Years is the first] and I'm wondering if  now I should re-read all five before number six.

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Once again it's Too Many Books, not enough time!

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It's Saturday Again

 Have I done anything really interesting this week?

No.

I finished a small  book - On This Holy Island by Oliver Smith, he visited places of pilgrimage past and present.

and found book another in a charity shop in town (50p). Colkirk Tales by Alfred Absolon....love the cover.

but otherwise it's been too much TV (still watching Bull) and tackling a 16 x16 Sudoku in a Puzzle book.

Of course there was the usual house work, washing, shopping and Exercise Group. I've put so many batch made meals in the freezer over the month that I've run out of boxes so no more will be made for a while. I now have a choice of Quorn Korma Curry, Nut Roast, Pizza topping and bases, Quorn Spag Bol sauce and Pasta/broccoli/ salmon bake for whenever. 

At least I got some gardening done with planting out two courgettes and the squash plant   (I think danger of frosts really has gone) and putting two cucumbers, one pepper and one aubergine into grow bags in the greenhouse. Plus the Climbing French beans out to the garden.  There will be 4 tomato plants in the other grow bags and more peppers in pots next but they are still a bit small.

The roses in the garden are all flowering so I brought a few in

We are in for a heatwave, with record breaking May temperatures forecast over the next few days - a sunny Bank Holiday weekend will be nice. Bank Hol weekends come around quickly with  Easter, Early May and Late May all happening with a few weeks...........then we have to wait to late August for another one.................which is probably a good thing as  I made scones  for my Bank Holiday treat again!

There are a couple of things I want to go to over the weekend but decided it would be a bit too hot to stand outside selling at a car boot sale, so my boxes of 'stuff' remain in my bedroom.

Have a lovely weekend - don't forget the sunscreen!