County Kilkenny

A wise old owl lived in an oak;
The more he saw, the less he spoke;
The less he spoke, the more he heard.
Why can't we all be like that Wise Old Bird?

Taken from a playground mural in the village of Ballyragget (where I had a pleasant afternoon nap)

Gleanings from my adventures in the South Downs

Inscription on oldest bell in Alfriston Church, cast by William Wodeward, London, c. 1390.

WOX AVGVSTINI SONAT IN AVRO DEI. Translation, The voice of Augustine sounds in the ear of God.

Odd ledger in Vestry of Selmeston Church.

Here lyeth ye body of Henry Rochester
Dyed May 28 1646
Apostrophe AD
Omnes.
This life that's packt with ielovsles and fears
I love not. That's beyond the lists of fears.
That life for me. For here I cannot breathe
my prayers ovt. There I shall have breath
to say Ovr Father that's in heaven wth me
Where chores of sancts and innocents there be
Christianos.
No sooner Christened but possession
I took of the heavenlie habitation.

A few places I'll be Aug-Sept

St. Mary the Virgin in Bexley, Kent, the parish where my great-great-great-great-great uncle the Rev. Henry Piers was vicar.

Dover, Kent

Cobh, County Cork

The Hebrides

Little Gidding, Cambridgeshire (addendum: I may not have time to make it here)

Lincoln College, Oxford

Solesmes (near Le Mans on the river Sarthe)