dorothy
walking around our local churchyard for the first time - we've only been here six years! many of the old stones, some dated as long ago as the mid 1700s, have been reused as retaining walls for terracing and borders. i don't expect the residents mind but it's sad to think that when the stones were placed their loved ones imagined they'd be there for eternity. not so.
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Hi Ian - I ended up here instead of At Mr fleas' and what a great gravestone...
Whereabouts in Gloucestershire are you?
I went to school in Ciren and grew-up in Duntisbourne Abbotts, I've also lived at Upper Dowdeswell and Paradise (near Painswick) for a little while Jim and I rented a cottage in Minchinhampton but we didn't manage to sell this house so we moved back in last August.
I'm still yearning for the Cotswolds...
Oh and I really popped over to ask if you could find the link you mentioned or a better idea of what to search for... I tried gloucestershire recycling but didn't happen upon it.
okay, caroline - i've posted the link on your blog.
www.freecycle.org
we came up from the London area about 12 years ago, not far from cirencester but over the border in wiltshire. the cottage there became too small for our growing family so we moved into town.
i'm only just finding the quality time and motivation to go exploring - walking mostly, but biking is great too! yeah, duntisbourne is pretty close and we did the minch common hike last month!
scarecrow,
talking of the cottage we had - it was about 300 years old and i was taking down a bricked-up recess we had and half expecting to find a corpse buried behind it - like out of edgar allan poe or something. however, there was nothing there but 300 years worth of thick dust!
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